Council Tax Liability Order

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Advice needed please, my friend has received a liability order, not sure how much for, they have sent a letter to her employer to take it from her salary.

Can she go back to court to have this reviewed?

Cheers guys

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BoGoF

Nope, they had their chance to negotiate payment and that has now been lost.

CIS

As BoGoF has already said by this stage the ability to pay by instalments has been lost.

Once a Liability Order is granted the council have the say over how the money is recovered (within a set of available options) and there is no further input from the courts unless you get to the stage of bankruptcy or committal to prison for non payment.

Savvy_Sue

It CAN be possible for the EMPLOYER to negotiate a lower payment over a longer period with the council, but you have to be a fairly determined employer to do it.

CIS

It CAN be possible for the EMPLOYER to negotiate a lower payment over a longer period with the council, but you have to be a fairly determined employer to do it.

Only if the council are prepared to break the legal side of the attachment order - the % to be deducted is set in law and the council are being a bit naughty in going outside of it which is why most wont - some will but then it's a fine line for them as they are effectively going outside of a court order and lose any enforcement powers in respect of the Attachment Order.

Savvy_Sue

To be fair, I don't remember exactly how far it had got, but I think there must have been an attachment order for us to have been involved. Someone spent half an hour on the phone pointing out that requiring us to deduct that much of someone's already small salary wasn't going to leave them able to pay their current year's CT bill, which was going to be counter-productive in the longer term.

But you make a very good point: if there's a court order, then it's essential to pay what the court has ordered, not a penny less, not a penny more, every single month.