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Council tax after death - what's normal practice?

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  • Success! They have 'reviewed' the case and decided that we are not liable.
    Thanks all posters for your advice, support, and encouragement. What concerns me is that had I not been a stroppy and difficult person, we could have ended up paying several hundred pounds. How many others have just gone along with it and not argued the case? I will be encouraging the local councillor to pursue how BCC deals with bereavement and to ensure that their policy is correctly and, as importantly, more sensitively implemented in the future.
  • kfsimpson wrote: »
    Success! They have 'reviewed' the case and decided that we are not liable.
    Thanks all posters for your advice, support, and encouragement. What concerns me is that had I not been a stroppy and difficult person, we could have ended up paying several hundred pounds. How many others have just gone along with it and not argued the case? I will be encouraging the local councillor to pursue how BCC deals with bereavement and to ensure that their policy is correctly and, as importantly, more sensitively implemented in the future.
    Well done you!
  • Thats great news, one less thing to worry about :)
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