Council tax summons which include costs

Ed2000

If anyone gets a summons in england which includes a claim for costs i would like to know.

Quite often the summons will say "Summon Costs £xx.


This is illegal.

Hasbeen

Ed2000 wrote: »

If anyone gets a summons in england which includes a claim for costs i would like to know.

Quite often the summons will say "Summon Costs £xx.


This is illegal.

Quite right!

Why should people who do not pay their council tax for services supplied etc have to pay the additional cost of the council taking them to court.

This should be paid for by the people who do pay their council tax on time etc, as they obviously have more money!

And this only happens in England? So its legal in the rest of the UK?

Discrimination!!! Unjust!!! Take the English councils to court!!! and charge summons costs!!!

Or perhaps not? perhaps the court of "uman rites" ??

Would suspect claim for costs would be decided at end of hearing?? Depending on???? ETC ETC

Ed2000

The Regulations do not allow a claim for costs to be included in the summons.

Costs can only be claimed at the end of the hearing.

Councils are scamming millions of people, a high court case is pending.

fed_up_and_stressed

Ed2000 wrote: »

The Regulations do not allow a claim for costs to be included in the summons.

Costs can only be claimed at the end of the hearing.

Councils are scamming millions of people, a high court case is pending.

And the moral of the story is pay your bills on time.

HappyMJ

Ed2000 wrote: »

The Regulations do not allow a claim for costs to be included in the summons.

Costs can only be claimed at the end of the hearing.

Councils are scamming millions of people, a high court case is pending.

Pay the outstanding council tax before the hearing (although there never is an actual hearing) and you should be able to negotiate for the costs to be removed. Depends on your council though.

GingerBob_3

fed_up_and_stressed wrote: »

And the moral of the story is pay your bills on time.

Of course. But wouldn't it be so much easier to pay your council tax bill if you knew the scumbags at the council weren't wasting most of YOUR money on inflated executive salaries, bloated bureaucracies and a raft of unneeded and unwanted so-called "services".

ChiefGrasscutter

fed_up_and_stressed wrote: »

And the moral of the story is pay your bills on time.

Well most "bills" are for service I actually receive and actually want to receive.

Council tax is a bill for a 'service' I used very little of and do not want. It is correctly described as a 'tax' commonly known as either "extortion of money with menaces" or "protection money" were it not the government extracting it by force.

We need a national council tax strike. The scum can jail a few 100's of people - they cannot jail hundreds of thousands of people.

I do not bedrudge my national taxes paid to HMG but I simply HATE my local council both district and county.

le_loup

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

I do not bedrudge my national taxes paid to HMG but I simply HATE my local council both district and county.

Ever heard of elections? You can vote for an alternative AND even stand for election yourself. Then you could stop the council cutting the grass!

RuthnJasper

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Well most "bills" are for service I actually receive and actually want to receive.

Council tax is a bill for a 'service' I used very little of and do not want. It is correctly described as a 'tax' commonly known as either "extortion of money with menaces" or "protection money" were it not the government extracting it by force.

We need a national council tax strike. The scum can jail a few 100's of people - they cannot jail hundreds of thousands of people.

I do not bedrudge my national taxes paid to HMG but I simply HATE my local council both district and county.

But Council Tax pays for schools, the Police, Fire Service, street-lighting, Highways, etc. The department I work for gets @ 42p per year from a Council Tax bill. Most salary costs are met using capital or sold services.

GingerBob_3

le_loup wrote: »

Ever heard of elections? You can vote for an alternative AND even stand for election yourself. Then you could stop the council cutting the grass!

I did vote for the alternative bunch last time, but for some reason it didn't work; the clowns are still in power. Anyway, the councillors generally have nothing to do with it. The waste and incompetency can mostly be levelled against the unelected council executive.

le_loup

GingerBob wrote: »

I did vote for the alternative bunch last time, but for some reason it didn't work

But, it only works if you are the Chief Grass Cutter.