Hi Karen, we had a similar one a few years back. As the lots adjoined & the ownership issue was clearly a title error we contacted the Valuer General & request a consolidated valuation once the title had been corrected.
Ours went back 5 years so the VG’s supplied a reascertained valuation for the current & previous base date valuation. This then allowed us to process a supplementary adjustment & cancel the rates on both assessments & relevy as one assessment back to the date it had been levied from.
Consolidating them only resulted in a slight increase for the ratepayer which they were happy about & being able to process a supp adjustment to cancel the second assessment was an easy fix for us.
Depending on the circumstances of this one it may be worth you speaking to the VG’s to see if this would be possible.
Thanks,
Simone
