council tax conundrum

topdaddy_2

Also did you move from one local authority to another? Cant imagine theres much data sharing.

dimbo61

Six months travelling round Europe !
No need for passport and no stamps anymore
How can they prove you have not been travelling !

Annie1960

snowman88 wrote: »

Sorry so just to make sure I understand..
If they ask for specific addresses of friends etc then I csn give them - as long as 2 adults were there and paying CTax then it doesnt matter ehether I was or not.
So I can just say no fixed address?

I think it's best if you just give them accurate and honest information about your previous addresses. I don't understand why you are not telling them where you have been staying since January.

snowman88_2

Annie1960 wrote: »

I think it's best if you just give them accurate and honest information about your previous addresses. I don't understand why you are not telling them where you have been staying since January.

Oh I'm not trying to hide anything or not tell them... I just have stayed at so many different friends etc from anything of 3 days to 3 weeks so thats a lot of addresses!

Annie1960

snowman88 wrote: »

Oh I'm not trying to hide anything or not tell them... I just have stayed at so many different friends etc from anything of 3 days to 3 weeks so thats a lot of addresses!

Well give them these addresses, then. I'm sure you are not the only person they have ever encountered who has moved around from place to place. Give them a ring and explain the situation to them.

RAS

snowman88 wrote: »

Oh I'm not trying to hide anything or not tell them... I just have stayed at so many different friends etc from anything of 3 days to 3 weeks so thats a lot of addresses!

Just tell them that. It is all that you need to do.

There was a long and distressing thread by an OP who had been living on sofas and floors for years so he could pay for his mum's house. Sometime he stayed with her for a few weeks between jobs.

A similar query to yours led some twerp winding him up telling him that mum was not entitled to the single person's allowance and could be imprisoned. And that the bailiffs would come to take his possessions because he had not declared immediately when he moved in alone (it has not been clear at first if mum was going to be permanently in residential care).

After the failed suicide, he confessed to the local Council. There was no problem at all with his previous lifestyle. The Council back-dated the change of occupier and granted him single person's reduction. The outstanding bill was about £250.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I don't think a council have any legal right to know your previous address.

katejo

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I don't think a council have any legal right to know your previous address.

I agree but the councils are being very nosy now. When my previous lodger left , I was not allowed to have my single person discount back unless I provided the departing lodger's new address. Wholly irrelevant but they would not budge.