Stamp duty and Council Tax

[IanB]

I am selling my house and will move into rented accomodation. I want to buy a dilapidated bungalow to get PP for a demolish and rebuild and would probably stay in rental for the whole time. Two questions

 

1.  If living in rented when I purchase another house I'm hoping it will just be standard stamp duty i.e. not hit with second home duty - is that right?

2. Will I get hit for second home council tax if registered at the rental place?.  I fear the answer is yes, but can I register the house as unliveable if there were say no toilet or cooker in the house (if you see what I mean!).  Should I be switching residences for Council tax if that's allowed?

 

Thanks.

Edited 20 hours ago by IanB

[nod]

1 standard CT

2 depends on LA 

Ours allows 3 months to renovate Used to be 6

Get your permissions through and knock it down ASAP

[G and J]

Our experience is that to stop paying council tax it requires the valuation office to accept that the dwelling in question is not suitable to live in.  The examples they gave are more fundamental, things like no ceilings or doors or services.  So as Nod says, get demolishing!