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Council tax - avoiding- illegal?

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  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    Rob, you are such a troll.

    You need to pay for the masses to be educated at state schools otherwise the streets will be full of feral children.;)
  • longtimelurker_2
    longtimelurker_2 Posts: 119 Forumite
    Well you seem to have got the answer, which I think you already knew.

    Remember too that if discovered and charges pressed, this sort of thing could get him in hot water with the GMC. Not worth it, is it?
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,071 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    You are deluded if you seriously believe that.

    No I'm just capable of logic and also simple arithmetic.

    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    blckbrd wrote: »
    You only get recharged if the issues aren't emergencies.

    Yes you are in fact correct there regarding the fire service, I got my wires crossed on that one.

    R
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    theartfullodger wrote: »
    - I've never paid for (except through my taxes) an ambulance

    Ambulance call out charge is £25. Plenty of links on the net if you bother to look.

    R
  • g_attrill
    g_attrill Posts: 691 Forumite
    Snooze wrote: »
    Ambulance call out charge is £25. Plenty of links on the net if you bother to look.

    Can you cite sources here? As far as I know there is no such charge, and I have knowledge both from knowing people who have used the service recently, and relatives who work frontline in the NHS and the fire service.

    I have even searched, and all I can come up with is where the NHS can recover some charges from insurers in respect of road accidents, the maximum ambulance charge being some £170-odd. This is never billed to a patient though.
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 7 December 2009 at 6:29PM
    g_attrill wrote: »
    Can you cite sources here? As far as I know there is no such charge, and I have knowledge both from knowing people who have used the service recently, and relatives who work frontline in the NHS and the fire service.

    I have even searched, and all I can come up with is where the NHS can recover some charges from insurers in respect of road accidents, the maximum ambulance charge being some £170-odd. This is never billed to a patient though.

    Clearly you haven't searched or if you did, you did it with your eyes closed. I can see 4 links on the first page of google and I also speak from personal experience from earlier this year when an ambulance was called for me after I was hit by a car on a country road and carted off the Harrogate hospital. An invoice arrived from them a week later requiring £25 citing it as the standard fee charged for emergency call-outs. Google sources back this up (much to my annoyance as I thought it was BS).

    Edit: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1999/ukpga_19990003_en_1

    Says only RTCs there, but I was on foot when I got hit so clearly it doesn't just apply to those in vehicles. I don't think it was £25 exactly, but not far off.

    R
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Snooze stated..
    An invoice arrived from them a week later requiring £25

    It wasn't related to the way you spoke with them/posted on MSE was it??

    Cheers!

    Lodger
  • glasgowm148
    glasgowm148 Posts: 174 Forumite
    Snooz is the only person talking sense in this thread

    To everyone else, 'Your loyalty to your captors is touching'
    Capital One - 950/1400 :eek:
    Barclay Card - 400/1250 :beer:
    Overdraft - 1500/2100 :mad:
    Personal Debt - 0/2000 :T
    nPower - 900/1115 :A
    Total - 3724/7900 -- 52% paid off!
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Snooze wrote: »
    Ambulance call out charge is £25. Plenty of links on the net if you bother to look.

    R


    Isn't it for RTA only?
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