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Council tax - avoiding- illegal?
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Did anyone else spot that this thread died over a year ago?Anything I post here is purely my own personal opinion. As such it may be wrong, poorly worded or written very tongue-in-cheek. Please therefore treat it the same way you should treat anything you read on the internet from an unknown person - with a healthy pinch of salt and scepticism!0
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Id advise your OH not to do this as well because not only is it illegal, if you leave him hes screwed!Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.0
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Please don't even think about lying. Your partner will probably be exempt as a student therefore you will get a 25% discount.
I used to work in the system and the amount of people that would inadvertently let something slip about where they were living, or someone at their previous address would tell us where they moved to and when. Its highly unlikely that you'd get a criminal record for it but when they do find out that you're living there they will backdate the charges so you'd be stuck with a giant bill and probably asked to pay it off within a few months. If you couldn't do that you may then get taken to court and get a liability order against your name.
Also, councils can obtain information about your whereabouts from other companies (there is a clause in the data protection act which means companies can share that information if its for the collection of taxes).
You are best calling your local council and explaining you are on a low income. They should let you pay weekly or extend your payments over 12 months by direct debit.0 -
Did anyone else spot that this thread died over a year ago?
I would hazard a guess that the OP has split up with her boyfriend took up with another chap and have a bouncing little baby 18 Months on from her original post...
On that basis she is very possibly council tax exempt and any other replies are a waste of time...0
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