Council Tax help - Again Pt2

debt_doctor

Hi,

I think your complaint should be two fold;

1) Make a formal complaint to your local councils monitoring officer. S/he is the head legal bod of the council.

2) Make a formal complaint to the insolvency service, start with the local OR (not the examiner who is handling / has handled your case), then climb the complaints ladder from there if neccessary.

It is the insolvency services' job to correctly administer the insolvency legislation and the council are no exception.

DD

miss_spooky

Thankss DD for that,

i have the name of the person in Council Tax dept to send letter to, but I am also going to follow Council Comlaints procedure so will send two copies of to them.

Will it be enough to use the quotes here from the IS Tech Manual & the Council Tax regulations or is there anything else I can quote. I would like to make this case as string as possible.

Regards

MS.

fatou256

it should be enough quoting the IS manual and the council tax regulation, as they state clearly the position towards Br and council tax . good luck . If i were you i will contact also your local councillor as they can help a lot.

miss_spooky

Hi everyone.

Received a letter in the post today.

"I have checked your records and confirm that your account liability has been amended to include the whole of the current financial years charge in your bankruptcy.

A revised bill will follow in the post under a seperate cover in March 2010

Please accept my apoligies for any inconvenience this matter may have caused to you. I can confirm that all staff involved in these matters have been appraised of the correct legislation"

Many thanks to DD who provided us with the amunition and the backbone to take on the Council.

And to anyone else who may have the same issues, keep fighting it's your right.

Regards & good luck

MS.

debt_doctor

I may have given the information but the BACKBONE absolutely belongs to you - fantastic, well done !!

You have no idea how good I feel for you and others out there that might suffer the same.

DD

fatou256

i am glad for you miss spooky well done ! it feels good when you won a small victory against your local council, isn't it ! lol i am glad they have listen to you insted of dragging their feet like they did with me .....

tigerfeet2006

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Yeah! well done Missus

miss_spooky

Just a quickie as I'm of out.

The bad news is that the OR still stands by their original take & have written to say that the councils have a right to do this & that they can't stop them as ct is a yearly debt but worked out daily (in a rush so can't think of right wording but YKWIM)

They said in letter rec'd today that I haven't a justifiable case against the council as my liability hearing was after my br date.

Part of me is thinking to write with councils response and see if they shift, maily to help others but part of me is thinking of leaving it - let sleeping dogs lie?

blind-as-a-bat_2

The later, the council have backed down, but if an ignorent or's examiner gives them reason they may try there luck.

Your fight is done and won, leave it be, the likes of DD and others will carry on the/your fight on behalf of others;)

chappers

the problem here is quite basic whilst a liability order has been made against you that just states that you are liable for the CT and is your debt and as such is a provable debt.

However council tax law states that CT is due on the property still as they have written the unpaid part of the debt off not the whole debt and council tax is still due whether by you or another occupant.

The liability order identifies you as the person responsible for the council tax however if you had say moved from the property since the liability order the council would only be able to chase you for the tax owed up to the point you left the property.