Independent evidence to support your LPT band, for homeowners who want a self-assessment they can stand over.
Local Property Tax is a self-assessed tax. Revenue does not tell you what your property is worth; you declare a valuation band, and you are responsible for that declaration being reasonable and defensible.
For most homes, a careful look at recent local sales makes the band obvious. For a good many others it does not, and those are the cases we are instructed on.
Because LPT is self-assessed, an under-declared band is your exposure, not Revenue's error. If the declaration is queried, what protects you is being able to show that the band was arrived at reasonably, on the basis of evidence available at the valuation date.
That is precisely what a written valuation from an accredited valuer provides, a documented, dated record of the comparable evidence and the reasoning behind the band you declared.
LPT operates on a fixed valuation date that applies for the whole of a given valuation period, rather than on today's value. Tell us which period your declaration relates to and we will value as at the correct date. Current dates and bands are published by Revenue.
The declaration relates to the property as it stood at the valuation date, so a later extension or refurbishment does not usually change the band for that period. We can advise on how your circumstances apply.
Yes. We prepare a valuation with full supporting evidence that you or your accountant can put forward in response.
use the form. We will come back to you with a fee before anything starts.
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