Council Tax Handbook

EG Council Tax Handbook is a timely publication. The text is easy to understand and very comprehensive. This volume helps to define the council tax in various contexts, including: governmental and organisational policies and structures roles and activities of the principal players policies and practices of administration, assessment, dispute resolution procedures for best value and performance assessment dispute resolution enforcement and counter-fraud practice the history of local taxation the search for additions or alternatives. EG Council Tax Handbook is written for those who have an involvement in property. It covers the needs of those in local government, advisory and counselling organisations and businesses or professions allied or linked to the council tax and council tax benefit regimes. It will be an indispensable guide those who include: owners or occupiers of dwellings and other non-exempt property business owners and managers with business property which includes residential accommodation for staff and others local authority councillors and officers seeking an overview and detail holders of responsibility for managing residential property disputants wanting to settle differences over council tax and council tax benefit new entrants to the property professions. The book is comprised of 19 concise but comprehensive chapters, enabling the reader to: understand professional approaches, methods and jargon save time by pinpointing relevant issues comprehend policies and practices identify ranges of options and solutions gain insight into council tax and council tax benefit situations. Geoff Parsons draws on 30 years experience in higher education as a teacher and writer on such subjects as development, estate management, valuation and appraisal, leisure property, property taxation and rating. He is a member of the Institute of the Revenues, Rating and Valuation and has been a member of various working parties and committees of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and chairman of its Kent Branch. He has contributed articles to journals and to several publications including: Estate Duty and Property, Planning, Development and the Community Land Scheme (for the IRRVs predecessor the Rating and Valuation Association) and is the editor of The Glossary of Property Terms published by EG books and author of the recent EG Property Handbook. Tim Rowcliffe Smith is a member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation. A local government revenues manager drawing on 17 years experience, he specialises in the legal administration and enforcement of local taxation, representing his district in the courts. He has researched the efficacy of various local taxation enforcement procedures and regularly contributes to publications, including LACEF, the Local Authority Civil Enforcement Forum.Parsons, Geoff is the author of 'Council Tax Handbook ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780728204843 and ISBN 0728204843.