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Can you look at what band similar houses on our street are in, tell me if we have a realistic case, and what the actual process would be—including whether we could end up paying more if we challenge?"},{"title":"Cross-border council tax dispute strategy","prompt":"We just moved from England to Scotland and our council tax band seems way higher than equivalent properties nearby. What's the right way to dispute this in Scotland, how long would it take, and what kind of evidence would actually convince the VOA?"},{"title":"Council tax refund eligibility and backdating","prompt":"Our neighbors got their band reduced last year and we think ours is wrong too. If we successfully challenge now, how far back would any refund go, and which statutory route would be fastest—the informal review or the formal proposal?"}],"resultDescription":"Returns a neighbour-band cluster analysis against official VOA/SAA data, a recommended statutory challenge route (formal proposal or informal review) with the correct jurisdiction variant (England/Wales/Scotland including post-2023 Local Taxation Chamber), verified decision and appeal timelines, applicable evidence rules (including the note that VOA rejects house-price-index data), a mandatory band-can-go-up risk flag, and an estimate of how far back any refund would be backdated.","failureModes":["Property address or postcode not found in VOA/SAA database — returns no-match error","Insufficient neighbour data in the cluster for a meaningful comparison — returns low-confidence or no-result response","Ambiguous jurisdiction (e.g. cross-border postcode) — may return an error or require explicit country parameter","Network or upstream VOA/SAA lookup failure — returns service-unavailable error","Invalid or malformed address input — returns validation error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, rules-based council-tax banding challenge assessment for a UK residential property, specifically when you require neighbour-cluster comparison against live official VOA/SAA data, correct statutory route selection across England/Wales/Scotland jurisdictions, and the mandatory band-increase risk gate — rather than a generic property-tax advisory or an LLM-generated estimate.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-14T06:39:23.532Z","isFirstParty":false}