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**Podcast Transcript** Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Essential Property Podcast with your hosts, Amanda Woodward and Paul Samuda. We are on episode 40 today. I was just noticing that we are almost three years into the podcast now. It's gone quickly, as the years do, and our three-year anniversary is in February. I think we'll put together something special for that. In the meantime, we are at the end of 2023, another eventful year. Just like anything in the pro

***Podcast Episode Automated Transcript***  Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Essential Property Podcast with your hosts Paul Samuda and Amanda Woodward. Andtoday we're going to be talking all things HMO council tax banding. So earlier this week, the government has gone into consultation to get views on banding council tax for HMOs. And the view that we should only have one council tax per property, apart from in veryexceptional circumstances, Paul, and I will shar