Why do we use rateable value to calculate unmetered charges?
Unless you have a meter and pay metered charges, your water charges will be based on the rateable value (RV) of your property. RV used to be used by councils to calculate their charges but it was abolished for council use on 1 April 1990 and no further properties were given rateable values after this date. All new properties are now fitted with water meters and customers living in these properties pay metered charges. Domestic properties that have been built, merged with another or split since 1990 that do not have a meter fitted are billed using a fixed charge. Whilst water companies were prevented by law from replacing RV with Council Tax bands as a basis for charging, they are allowed to continue to use the old RV. Unmetered charges are therefore levied in accordance with the Water Industry Act 1991 based upon the property rateable values that appeared in the Inland Revenue Valuation List on 31 March 1990. The number of people in the property, the amount of water consumed and the nu
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