The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992

Payments: adjustments E+W

24.—(1) If the chargeable amount proves to be greater than the estimated amount an additional sum equal to the difference between the two shall, on the service by the billing authority on the liable person of a notice stating the chargeable amount, be due from him to the authority on the expiry of such period (being not less than 14 days) after the day of issue of the notice as is specified in it.

(2) If the chargeable amount proves to be less than the estimated amount the billing authority shall notify the liable person in writing of the chargeable amount; and any overpayment of the chargeable amount—

(a) subject to paragraph (6), shall be repaid if the liable person so requires, or

(b) in any other case shall (as the billing authority determines) either be repaid or be credited against any subsequent liability of the liable person to make a payment in respect of any council tax of the authority.

(3) If any assumption by reference to which the estimated amount was calculated is shown to be false before the chargeable amount is capable of final determination for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), the billing authority may, and if so required by the liable person shall, make a calculation of the appropriate amount with a view to adjusting the liable person’s liability in respect of the estimated amount and (as appropriate) to—

(a) requiring an interim payment from the liable person if the appropriate amount is greater than the estimated amount, or

(b) subject to paragraph (6), making an interim repayment to the liable person if the appropriate amount is less than the amount of the estimated amount paid.

(4) The appropriate amount for the purposes of paragraph (3) is the amount which would be required to be paid under a demand notice if such a notice were issued with respect to the relevant year on the day that the notice under paragraph (5) is issued; and more that one calculation of the appropriate amount and interim adjustment may be made under paragraph (3) according to the circumstances.

(5) On calculating the appropriate amount the billing authority shall notify the liable person in writing of it; and a payment required under paragraph (3)(a) shall be due from the liable person to the billing authority on the expiry of such period (being not less than 14 days) after the day of issue of the notice as is specified in it.

(6) If the chargeable amount or the appropriate amount is less than the estimated amount in consequence of the liable person ceasing during the relevant year to be liable to make the payment to which the estimated amount relates, and he becomes liable, in respect of a different chargeable dwelling, to make a payment to the same billing authority by way of council tax in respect of the same day as that on which he so ceases, the billing authority may require that the amount of any overpayment mentioned in paragraph (2) or difference mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) shall, instead of being repaid, be credited against his liability in respect of the different dwelling.

(7) In this regulation—

• “the appropriate amount” has the meaning given in paragraph (4); and

• “the estimated amount” means the amount last estimated under regulation 20(2) for the purposes of a demand notice or any subsequent notice given under paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 prior to the failure mentioned in regulation 23(3), save that if in any case an interim adjustment has been made under paragraph (3), it means in relation to the next payment, repayment or interim adjustment in that case under this regulation (if any) the appropriate amount by reference to which the previous interim adjustment was so made.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 24 in force at 1.4.1992, see reg. 1(1)