The Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) (England) Regulations 2009

Manner of making proposals and information to be included

5.—(1) A proposal shall be made by notice in writing served on the LO; and the notice shall—

(a) state the name and address of the proposer, and the capacity in which the proposer makes the proposal;

(b) identify the dwelling to which it relates;

(c) identify the respects in which it is proposed the list be altered; and

(d) include—

(i) a statement of the reasons for believing the list to be inaccurate;

(ii) if the proposal is made in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 4(1)(d), a statement of the reasons for the belief that an event mentioned in regulation 3(1)(a) has occurred, and of the date on which the event occurred;

(iii) if the proposal is made in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 4(1)(e), a statement identifying the property to which the decision in question relates and the date of that decision and (as the case may be) that the decision was a decision of the VTE or the High Court;

(iv) if the proposal is made in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 4(3), a statement of the day on which the proposer became the taxpayer;

(v) if the proposal disputes the accuracy of an alteration made by the LO, a statement of the day on which the LO served the relevant notice under regulation 12;

(vi) if the proposal disputes the day from which an alteration should have effect, a statement of the day proposed in its place.

(2) A proposal may deal with more than one dwelling—

(a) in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 4(1)(a); or

(b) where the proposer makes the proposal in the same capacity as respects each dwelling, and each of the dwellings is within the same building as each other dwelling or, where any of them is not within a building, it is within the same curtilage as the other or others.