If you buy a house and nppr/household charge of previous owner not paid

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Does the liability attach to the house or the previous owner?

Can't imagine that certificates of discharge will be provided.

Npprs plus fines are up at over 2 grand these days.
 
I would imagine that this is a job for your solicitor. He will bring this to your attention and will insist previous owner has discharged I presume. I suspect the 'propety tax' will be the same and legislation will be put in place by the government if it is not there already.
 
"Does the liability attach to the house or the previous owner?"

Both - I think.

On a sale, a purchaser's solicitor will insist on a receipt for payment or evidence that it is a PPR. The difficulty may be in establishing whether or not the property falls within the remit of the NPPR charge.

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As I registered for the household charge yesterday I distinctly remember reading on the website that all transfers (sales etc) will have to have a certificate of discharge. Not sure if it's the same for the NPPR.
 
Interesting.

I'm not sure it's something to be dealt with after signing a contract. No reference in contract for sale, which is potentially a bad thing. Property definitely was liable for nppr.

I imagine the seller will try to pass any liability to purchaser in this case.
 
No reference in contract for sale
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But there's no reference of all the searches, checks the solicitor does either so don't think that matters. The contract is the last thing you sign to complete. Your solicitor will tell you not to complete i.e. sign the contract, if they have not shown proof of tax discharge.
 
Exactly. NPPR plus any accrued fines/interest must be paid in order to complte a sale transaction.
 
elcato said:
. The contract is the last thing you sign to complete. .
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The contract is the beginning, it's the transfer that is the last stage, when you drawdown the mortgage and pay the vendor. No doubt either in the contract or as part of the questions asked by the purchaser's solicitor there will be the question of whether the NPPR and in the future the household charge are discharged. Most likely some kind of certificate or guarantee from the vendor's solicitor would be acceptable. And this will probably happen after contract but before transfer. Also I guess banks are making it a condition of drawdowns of mortgages.
 
Hi
I have recently sold my house, sale closed about a fortnight ago. I could not close the sale without paying the household charge. The solicitor put it into contract that I would pay the charge but that the buyer would refund 75% of it as she will own the house for the remainder of the year but she would not agree so essentially I had to pay it.

I think it is whoever owns the house on the 1st January that is liabale for the charge
 
I sold my mothers house last year after she passed away a few years back and before the sale was complete I had to provide NPPR certs.
 
The_Banker said:
I sold my mothers house last year after she passed away a few years back and before the sale was complete I had to provide NPPR certs.
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Do you mean the proof from the NPPR that you've paid (receipts) or do you mean a different document?
 
guest8 said:
The solicitor put it into contract that I would pay the charge but that the buyer would refund 75% of it as she will own the house for the remainder of the year but she would not agree so essentially I had to pay it.
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The charge is €100. I wonder how much time the solicitors for both sides spent negotiating this €75, drafting and redrafting contracts? I hope you are paying your solicitor a fixed fee and not on time and materials basis.

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Brendan Burgess said:
The charge is €100. I wonder how much time the solicitors for both sides spent negotiating this €75, drafting and redrafting contracts?
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In the past when we had 'rates' (generally for water and refuse) it was common to divide them up between vendor and purchaser and as this is a relatively new charge that is probably the logic the solicitor had in dividing it up, or maybe the vendor suggested it. Unlike rates though these new 'charges' seem to be taxes and the liability attaches to a taxpayer depending on the liability date so prospective purchasers should refuse to pay it.
 
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