Rented property council tax demand

19lottie82

You don't need to go to court to get your wages arrested for council tax.

Guest101

19lottie82 wrote: »

You don't need to go to court to get your wages arrested for council tax.

of course you do. thats how the legal sytem works.

G_M

19lottie82 wrote: »

You don't need to go to court to get your wages arrested for council tax.

Can you substantiate that? I'm (always) happy to be corrected when I'm wrong, but prefer to be linked to some form of authority for the correction.

Guest101

G_M wrote: »

Can you substantiate that? I'm (always) happy to be corrected when I'm wrong, but prefer to be linked to some form of authority for the correction.

You're not wrong.


Here's just one example: http://www.northampton.gov.uk/info/200028/council-tax/996/council-tax-attachment-of-earnings

FBaby

It doesn't sound as if he is as diligent as you claim. For one, he didn't keep any paperwork of essential matters. He claims he called CT to let them know he moved, but somehow, they have no record of it. He has never received any letters, did he actually bother to have his mail forwarded to his new address?

I expect he forgot to contact them and then thought there was no point in paying to get his mail re-directed hence never knowing about being taken to court. Hopefully he'll learn that you should ALWAYS get your mail re-directed for a least a few month. You never know what might come though that ignoring could end up in unnecessary trouble.

macman

19lottie82 wrote: »

You don't need to go to court to get your wages arrested for council tax.

No, but the council does. If you don't turn up and defend it , the magistrates will award a liability order. In this case, the OP never received notification of the application, so didn't show up.
OP, why not ask the ex LL for a letter confirming your tenancy period?

cloud84

He always informs the council having moved many times he knows who to inform. But it seems like most people think the council are always right.
He also give the forwarding address to the landlord with stamped envelopes for post. The landlord was happy to send on any post. Which he did.

Guest101

Well you've got some good advice, what are you doing now?

macman

Guest101 wrote: »

I suspect he also has a CCJ, so u need to get a set aside.

as for proof, subject access request the new letting agent, costs £10

Non payment of CT is dealt with via the magistrates court, not the county court, so it won't result in a CCJ or affect your credit history.
The other sanctions beyond an attachments of earnings order are benefits deductions, a charging order on the property, or imprisonment (the latter two rarely).

Poppy9

cloud84 wrote: »

He always informs the council having moved many times he knows who to inform. But it seems like most people think the council are always right.
He also give the forwarding address to the landlord with stamped envelopes for post. The landlord was happy to send on any post. Which he did.

He can request the council send him copies of any information they hold with regard to the property they claim he owes CT for. It may well be that something went wrong their end.

I wouldn't trust LL to send on anything. DD had student let last year. On 4th July so emailed LL to give final meter readings etc. and he responded saying "I've given the readings to Npower along with my name and address for future correspondence, you do not need to do anything else". One week ago Npower rang DD to say she owes £300 for gas/elec to November. DD said her tenancy ended 30th June and they claimed no knowledge of this. However they did agree they had a meter reading dated 30th June! I rang them after DD gave them authority to speak to me and they accepted her tenancy had ended 30th June so issued a revised bill. I assume they were writing to DD at her former address but LL didn't pass on anything even though he had forwarding address.