Home Extension Bedroom Tax
Published / Last Updated on 03/08/2008
Home Extension Bedroom Tax
A Dorset council has been criticised for charging a £1,000 “bedroom tax” on home extensions. Purbeck district council has levied the tax, normally reserved for developers on households, with the assumption that any extension is an extra bedroom. The council has defended the move stating the money is necessary to pay for improved local infrastructure, including roads.
Our view
This is nothing apart from a money making exercise. Whilst we are not property lawyers, it would appear this is bordering on abuse as we understand the rules were supposed to apply to property developers putting multiple homes on the same land.
Our country is regressing to the eighteenth century were people were taxed for the number of windows you had in your property to let in daylight. This is again literally ‘daylight robbery’!
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