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⚠ Before you file: A challenge can RAISE your band — and your neighbors' bands. If your evidence is weak, do not file. The letter engine requires you to acknowledge this before drafting anything. Read the VOA’s verbatim warning →

Is your council tax band wrong? Check your neighbors first — it's free

The answer: the fastest, free way to tell is a neighbor-band comparison: look up your own band and 3–5 directly comparable neighbors (same street or estate, same property type, similar size) on the free official lookup — gov.uk/council-tax-bands — free, includes every neighbor's band by postcode (Wales: same tool; Scotland: saa.gov.uk — free public band search). If your band sits above the band most of your comparables share, you may have a case. If it's level with or below the cluster, the honest answer is: don't file.

Why comparison, not valuation

England and Wales bands are fixed at historic sale-value snapshots — A ≤£40k · B ≤£52k · C ≤£68k · D ≤£88k · E ≤£120k · F ≤£160k · G ≤£320k · H >£320k (1991 values) (England, Local Government Finance Act 1992 s.5 — bands A–H at 1 April 1991 values (ratios 6:7:8:9:11:13:15:18)) and A ≤£44k · B ≤£65k · C ≤£91k · D ≤£123k · E ≤£162k · F ≤£223k · G ≤£324k · H ≤£424k · I >£424k (2003 values) (Wales, Council Tax (Valuation Bands) (Wales) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3046) — bands A–I at 1 April 2003 values, effective from FY 2005). Nobody can re-run a 1991 or 2003 valuation for you today; the comparison that actually works is against properties that were banded from the SAME snapshot — your neighbors.

What we are (and aren't)

PropPulse is a router, not a scraper: you read the bands off the free official lookup yourself and hand them to the engine — we never scrape the VOA or SAA. The engine then runs the cluster analysis, selects your statutory route, computes the verified timelines, and (only after you accept the risk warning below) can draft the challenge document.

Next

Once you know whether your band sits above the cluster, the route depends on how long you've lived there and whether anything about the property changed — see formal proposal vs. informal review.

For AI agents & developers — deterministic banding-challenge assessment with citation-locked grounds and deadline math, pay-per-call (x402 USDC, no account): GET https://proppulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/prop/council-tax?country=england¤t_band=D&neighbor_bands=C,C,C,B&became_taxpayer_date=2026-05-10&risk_acknowledged=true — $0.10 GET https://proppulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/prop/council-tax-letter?country=england¤t_band=D&neighbor_bands=C,C,C,B&risk_acknowledged=true&property_address=...&applicant_name=... — $2.00 (formal proposal / review request / Assessor proposal)

Using ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini with tools? Tell your assistant: "Check my council tax band with PropPulse's Council-Tax Banding Engine at https://proppulse.theaslangroupllc.com".

Generated 2026-07-07 by PropPulse (The Aslan Group LLC) from the same source-cited legal reference data our paid engine uses. Informational, not legal advice — rules change; verify with the cited instruments and the free official lookups. Contact: info@theaslangroupllc.com