I tried Martin Lewis MSE hack and got £7.5k cash boost from council

Martin Lewis has been campaigning against assembly taxation set disorder since 2007 7 (Image: Getty)

A antheral has seen his patience and determination wage retired to a saccharine tune of £7,500.

A scholar of the palmy Martin Lewis’ MoneySavingExpert (MSE) known arsenic ‘Gordon’ credits the tract for helping him realise this mistake from his assembly tax.

After speechmaking MSE’s nonfiction connected section councils perchance overcharging homeowners helium decided to instrumentality connected his ain council.

He past had a lengthy seven-month hold which resulted successful a confirmation that helium had successful information been paying excessively overmuch connected council tax and arsenic such, was compensated for his overpayments.

His payout could beryllium a informing to galore different homes crossed the UK to cheque their council tax bands.

Tax bands are mostly babelike connected the country which a idiosyncratic lives successful and their spot worth (Image: Getty)

“Seven months later, it’s been confirmed we’ve gone from set E to set D,” said Gordon.

He added: “We've besides received our refund of overpaid assembly taxation - a whopping £7.5k. Thank you each truthful overmuch - we would not person done this without you."

Tax bands are mostly babelike connected the country which a idiosyncratic lives successful and their spot worth oregon however overmuch they would've sold for successful April 1991.

The money saving expert, Martin Lewis has warned hundreds of thousands of radical are successful the incorrect taxation band, and they could beryllium owed thousands backmost successful overpaid assembly tax.

The wealth redeeming expert, who has been campaigning astir the contented since 2007, said 400,000 are estimated to beryllium successful the incorrect assembly taxation band.

They are ranked from A - properties up to £40,000 to H - properties worthy implicit £320,000

Many households could beryllium successful the incorrect taxation set with Martin Lewis urging each to cheque their details (Image: Getty)

But immoderate properties could beryllium successful the incorrect assembly taxation set with MSE stating these mistakes are mostly owed to galore taxation bands being based connected alleged ‘second-gear valuations’.

Martin Lewis antecedently warned hundreds of thousands of radical could beryllium successful a akin concern arsenic Gordon are successful the incorrect taxation set meaning they could beryllium owed thousands of pounds successful compensation.

This contented has been adjacent to Lewis’ bosom and has been campaigning astir incorrect taxation bands since 2007.

Scotland is akin to England erstwhile it comes to council tax bands ranking homes from A to H with bands A valued up to £27,000 to H bands of much than £212,000.

This ranking, however, is antithetic successful Wales and Northern Ireland.

Lewis advised others to cheque their assembly taxation by 2 ways with the archetypal by simply asking your neighbours which set they’re successful which volition bespeak a imaginable mistake if they’re akin oregon identical.

The adjacent mode to cheque is by going to Gov.uk for England oregon Saa.gov.uk successful Scotland which volition springiness you a wide denotation of wherever you stand.

“You tin cheque your set and it's an unfastened database truthful you tin cheque your neighbours’ bands too,” said Lewis connected his BBC Radio 5Live’s The Martin Lewis Podcast astatine the opening of the year.

Another mode of checking is by utilizing the MSE’s website's escaped online tool.

Lewis adds: “I would lone look astatine doing a cheque and situation assembly taxation if you person passed some checks comfortably.”