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A Welsh woman is in real drama as she may be forced to demolish the log cabin she built in her garden after receiving huge tax bills for a ‘second home’.
In 2019, Hazel Cullen moved to Welsh with her husband, Richard, and their teenage daughter Megan, and immediately began transforming a cabin into a tourist hostel on their property in Builth Wells.
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The 60-year-old woman was earning a nice profit every month from renting the cabin she called Woodpecker Lodgebut his dream began to fall apart after he a neighbor alerted Powys County Council.
According to The Sun, Cullen recounted that a neighbor had complained about the lights in the shelter.So one day an appraisal officer showed up on his doorstep with a council tax bill acknowledging the cottage as second property.
“It is not a second home. If I wanted to go on vacation to my second home, why would I want to do it in my backyard?”said.
In addition, Cullen indicated that the tax is getting higher and higher and next year is going to be “ridiculous”, so You will have no choice but to demolish the property or you will continue to lose money.
Hazel Cullen He’s been arguing for three years that he shouldn’t have to pay second-home council tax on the cabin. In addition, ensures that the shelter is simply an “extension” of your home and is even connected to your water and electricity.
According to The Mirror, since 2017, the local authorities of Welsh they have been able to charge a premium of up to 100% of the standard rate of council tax on second homes. This charge was created to prevent second home owners from ‘taking over’ the top visitor spots in Wales.
have no other choice
Cullen he believes he will pay a premium of up to 300% on his cottage at the end of the tax year, totaling more than £9,000 ($11,300) a year. This is a higher payment of about three times, plus the bills for his country house, which has 11 rooms.
“We set it all up before they locked us up and then we had this guy at the door of the Appraisal Office Agency saying, ‘There was a report that there was a light on in the cabin and it’s being inhabited.’” counted.
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Hazel ensures that the cabin is no larger than a standard garage, but the government of Welsh he is not willing to accept your appeal as he considers it as a second home, even though it only has one bathroom, one bedroom, one living room and no kitchen.
“They said they won’t remove the council tax unless it’s in shambles, so basically now I have to demolish it.” ended.
Source: Elcomercio
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