Council tax problem

DUTR

dave45 wrote: »

What do you mean? The letter was not sent to me personally, it was sent to my parents. On the letter it says the sum that i must pay.

Thx pepzofio for your reply, i'll reply to your post in more detail when i get back from picking up my cousin. (should be back in a couple of hours or so.)

Well according to your post others and I rightly assumed it was addressed to you.

viktory

DUTR wrote: »

Well according to your post others and I rightly assumed it was addressed to you.

I assumed the same.

dave45 wrote: »

Was out of work for a good few months now (have a job now) and have recently received a letter from the council saying i have to pay out 500 in council Tax.

A reasonable assumption I think, given the above quote.

Perhaps if we have the right information we might be able to help.

CIS

What do you mean? The letter was not sent to me personally, it was sent to my parents. On the letter it says the sum that i must pay.

Thx pepzofio for your reply, i'll reply to your post in more detail when i get back from picking up my cousin. (should be back in a couple of hours or so.)

If you live with your parents and you are not a joint owner/tenant with them then you have no liability for Council Tax - I suspect the letter was advising that there had been an adjustment in the CTB paid as you were living in the property and a non-dependent deduction had been applied.

dave45

CIS wrote: »

Perhaps if we have the right information we might be able to help.

Sorry for not being clear mate. I assume you all thought the bill was sent to me as i said that 'ill have to pay 500' rather than my parents, the only reason i said that is because i feel it will be down to me to pay it, my parents have not got the money and in all honesty why should they pay it? My mistake i should pay it.

As for the rest of the information i don't think there is much more i can give, everything else i said in this thread still stands, as i said before i'm not that clued up in taxes etc. which was why i came on here to get some help.

As it stands:
live with parents (both pensioners)
claim CTB
Have not had work since finishing uni (almost a year ago)
Had signed on for jsa for a couple of months then signed off (was promised a job, did not get)
Been jobless for about 7 months, have a job now, well pretty much, i go in next Tuesday to finalize it.

Not sure what other information i can give out.

CIS wrote: »

If you live with your parents and you are not a joint owner/tenant with them then you have no liability for Council Tax - I suspect the letter was advising that there had been an adjustment in the CTB paid as you were living in the property and a non-dependent deduction had been applied.

This has gone totally over my head, sorry about this mate. What exactly do you mean here?

Again sorry guys for the mix up.

CIS

Any CTB claim would be in your parents name - depending on the situation a reduction can be made in their CTB to take in to account the amount of money that you are deemed to pay to help towards your parents council tax costs (this deduction is made regardless of whether you actually pay your parents something or not)

The basic rates of the deduction are shown here - http://www.tameside.gov.uk/housingbenefit/nondependentdeductions#t8

Macro_3

A £500 bill sounds like a full non-dep deduction for the 'almost' year since you finished university, plus the remainder of the financial year.

Your parents would have had at least two letters besides the bill regarding this - one asking them about your changed circumstances when you left university, one to notify them of the recalc of their CTB claim with the adverse inference used (the adverse inference if the assumption that your income is high enough to warrant the full non-dep deduction, the worst case scenario so to speak - it is used in the absence of any other info, mainly when people do not respond to requests for infomation) then the bill.

If the bill has only just been produced it is likely that the adverse inference is recent. If it is, you have 30 days to contact the LA and provide them with the correct income details in order to have the adverse inference removed and the correct deduction made.

If the change in the CTB claim is more than 30 days old, then you should contact the LA with the correct details to have the claim amended from current ASAP(that will reduce some of the bill) and to have any amount of the bill that is classed as overpayment netted down - again, by providing the correct info. If your parents can show good cause for not supplying correct info since the time when they were asked, again the whole thing might be looked at.

Short answer, call the LA.