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If you disagree with your property’s rateable value set by the Valuation Office, you can challenge it using your business rates valuation account.

• Updated: 18 March 2026

How to challenge your Council Tax band if you think you're paying too much Council Tax or you want to get a property removed from the Council Tax list.

• Overview

  Council Tax bands are based on how much a property was worth on: 1 April…

• When you have a legal right to make a challenge

  You have a legal right to challenge your Council Tax band (‘make a…

• When you do not have a legal right to make a challenge

  You can ask for your band to be reviewed if: you have been paying Council…

• How to challenge

  For properties in England and Wales, use the online service to make a…

• After you make a challenge

  The Valuation Office (VO) will confirm they’ve got your challenge. This is…

This editorial discusses the prospects for the development of a human BCG challenge model for tuberculosis

• Updated: 1 January 2014

Find out more about what you need to do as a challenge owner.

• Updated: 25 June 2019

Challenge the result of an election if you think it was not run properly, issuing and serving an election petition, and what happens at the hearing and trial

Will help over a million of the world’s poorest girls improve their lives through education.

• Updated: 16 August 2018

• Updated: 1 January 2013

Challenge a claim for a presumption of death declaration if you think the missing person is not dead or died on a different date or in a different place to what the claim says

We’re taking innovative action to reduce the impact of crime on society.

• Updated: 15 September 2021

You have 28 days to challenge a listing after the notification has been published.

• Updated: 21 April 2022