Council Tax. Council's powers to obtain information

CIS · 30 July 2010 at 1:29PM

yes, possibly, but if that was the case, then surely when tenant a moved out, they would have rang the council or written to say im moving out on 30th june.

Assuming the tenant has contacted the council - in around 75% of the cases I deal with its the L/Lwho informs the council that someone has left as the tenant has made no contact.

tenant b comes along and rings up and says, im now liable from 15th july, please send me a bill

Again your assuming the tenant supplies correct information, it happens regularly that a person takes a tenancy, moves in a week later and gives the later date rather than the actual start date of the tenancy.

By asking for tenancy agreements the vast majority of times its actually the L/L who is being helped and not the tenant as it ensure he is charged correctly and from the correct dates. Its not uncommon to have to make adjustments back over 4 or 5 years when it turns out tennats have been in the property and no one has told the council , without T/A's this is almost impossible to do so correctly.

Barry_D · 30 July 2010 at 2:16PM

Thanks everyone for your kind words....and yes I do have a sense of humour sometimes!

PoppySarah - there's no gap, no nefarious activities (past or present), no fraud. Just a council c0ck-up

And just so that you all know, both I and the tenant received a letter from the council in this morning's post. The name has been corrected and the revised bill was included; and Karen has now paid it in full for the year.

And yes the letter came from higher up the chain than the CT Officer.

Right then...here Kitty Kitty...