Section 2: Liability to tax determined on a daily basis.

Local Government Finance Act 1992 · 1992 c. 14View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Council Tax: England and Wales — Chapter I: Main provisions

Liability to pay council tax shall be determined on a daily basis.

For the purposes of determining for any day—

whether any property is a chargeable dwelling;
which valuation band is shown in the billing authority's valuation list as applicable to any chargeable dwelling;
the person liable to pay council tax in respect of any such dwelling; or
whether any amount of council tax is subject to a discount and (if so) the amount of the discount,

it shall be assumed that any state of affairs subsisting at the end of the day had subsisted throughout the day.

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