Do you ever get a reminder for Council Tax?

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82128313#Comment_82128313

Almost forgot, Santander give me 1% cashback for paying my CT by DD, so that's fifty-quidsworth of good reason.

Conrad3000

Thanks Jude.

Really appreciate all that info 👍😊

horsewithnoname

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6682351/do-you-ever-get-a-reminder-for-council-tax

I set up a standing order for the year when I get the details - no way am I letting them take money from my account! Then that’s that. I often set it for the 2 or 3 of the month and have never had an issue.
I pay most things by direct debit, but I’ve had issues with my council tax before so I don’t let them decide how much they want to take - I prefer it to be correct.

molerat

I have been paying my council tax (and community charge before that) by DD since 1990 without problem. There was one month where there was a major computer glitch and they failed to take payment from thousands but that was resolved with them recalculating over the rest of the year and issuing a new bill with the option of paying the missing payment. One of my relative won't pay by DD as the council might steal her money so has to travel 10 miles to the nearest post office and stand in the queue for ages to pay. I know what works for me !

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82129181#Comment_82129181

There's a guy who had a spat with my LA years ago (maybe still does) who after losing a couple of court cases decided that the way to spite the Council was to pay his CT every month at City Hall in Pound coins. Think he was rather annoyed when the LA said "fair enough".

Whatever happened to writing a cheque on the side of a cow?

molerat

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82129524#Comment_82129524

A lot of councils have closed their payment counters and gone to on line and third party payment providers - post office, paypoint etc - so the ability to do that sort of thing has now gone.

elmer

we used to have a regular person pay their annual bill in pound coins, he fairly upset the queue with the amount of time it took to count over a thousand pound coins, nowadays no one can pay in cash so that half hour of all the office toting up the coins is gone forever

ChrisJJ

Yes, I get a reminder by text and also a phone call, where an automated voice tells me I'm behind with payments! This is a more recent thing as in the past it's gone straight to "we're gonna send the bailiffs round and you now owe court costs".

Thankfully a quick phone call sorted it.