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Dominic Cummings dodges £30k tax bill on dodgy Durham property

Years of unpaid taxes - up to as much £50,000 - on two homes built in breach of regulations will be forgotten, despite investigators finding that Cummings is liable to pay council tax on them.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2020-10-13 17:40
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Dominic Cummings has had a £30,000 council tax bill written off – despite two properties on his family’s Durham farm being judged to breach planning regulations.

Years of unpaid taxes – up to as much £50,000 – on two homes built in breach of regulations will be forgotten, despite investigators finding that Cummings is liable to pay council tax on them.

Instead of the charges being backdated to when the two properties were built, new new charges for the properties – on the outskirts of Durham – will come into effect from the start of this month, according to the Northern Echo and originally reported by Alex Tiffin.

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Durham County Councillor John Shuttleworth told the paper: “They should have informed them (the authorities) and it should have been checked.

“If it was anybody else, they would be getting charged and it would be backdated, or they would be getting taken to court.

“It just proves there is two sets of rules, one for them and another for everyone else. It is not right.

“We have to abide by the law and it we don’t you get put in prison or you get fined. They are just above it.”

Cummings built the cottage on the farm with his father in 2002, and is listed as one of the property owners. 

He infamously flouted lockdown rules  and fled London to stay there with his wife and son at the end of Match – despite experiencing coronavirus symptoms.

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An investigation by the Northern Echo in June found that the cottage was in breach of planning laws – but Durham County Council said that no action could be enforced because of the amount of time that had passed.

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John Hewitt, corporate director of resources at Durham County Council, said: “I can confirm that the Valuation Office Agency have concluded their inspection and provided us with details of the required changes to the valuation list in respect of North Lodge, where the current single assessment will be replaced with three entries in the rating list going forward.

“These changes will be implemented with effect from October 4, 2020, which is the date we have been instructed to apply the changes from.

“The date from which the rating list is to be amended is a matter for the Valuation Office Agency.

“We are instructed that they have made their assessment in line with the relevant legislation and custom and practice in terms of such changes in accordance with Article 3 of the Council Tax (Chargeable Dwellings) Order 1993.”

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