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Household Charge Mega-Thread [Part 3] *Poll Reset*
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YeatsCounty wrote: »My Dad got a letter earlier this week demanding payment including a fine......despite the fact that he paid before the deadline and they acknowledged receipt of the payment a few weeks ago. So even when you pay, they don't know if you've paid.
Idiots.
Now if we all got letters and rang them saying we already paid i'd say they couldn't tell whether we did or not.
There could be great fun to be had with this yet
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tayto lover wrote: »Now if we all got letters and rang them saying we already paid i'd say they couldn't tell whether we did or not.
There could be great fun to be had with this yet
Personally, I think ringing them either way would only confirm they had a direct name/address combo on the database.
We could all ring and say we'd all passed away though.0 -
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Youre welcome to itDue to the disappearance of the yes side i am hereby applying for post of resident Pro-HHCer on this thread.
Turncoat.... :pac:.Pay your feckin taxes, ya spongers, or all the libraries will close...
The first reminder letter made it here last week but I decided not to do what I had planned with it as it didnt feel particularly absorbent, if you get my drift... 0 -
This letter gave me a good chuckle with my morning coffee.Paying the household charge
A chara, – Like thousands of others who had already paid the household charge, my wife and I both recently received letters from our local authority telling us that “the amount now due including late payment fees and interest is €127 per property”. The letter came from the head of finance in Wicklow County Council, but I gather that a similar form of words was used by councils throughout the country.
I didn’t know whether to be annoyed or amused at this letter. First of all it’s clear the council haven’t a clue whether I’ve paid or not, and there is a reference to the possibility that the letter may have been sent in error “due to the manner in which names and addresses can be entered and recorded differently in computer systems by the public”. God forbid the mistake could have been made by the council! The letter then proceeds to tell me that if I have already paid the charge I’m to contact, not Wicklow County Council, which sent out the letter, but “the Central Bureau at LoCall 1890357357”. I’m expected, it seems, to ring up the central section that I paid the money to in the first place to tell them what they already know! If I need to correspond, again it’s not to Wicklow County Council, which sent out the letter, that I’m to address my issues, but to “Household Charge” at a post office box in Dublin.
Despite the fact that the whole payment system for the household charge was an online one, the letter makes no mention of any contact email address for either “the Central Bureau” or Wicklow County Council. My reward for contacting the Central Bureau will be “to avoid receiving any further letters”. In my innocence, I made a few attempts to contact the LoCall number given, but then I thought to myself why not wait instead for the next instalment of this bureaucratic comedy of errors. – Is mise,
JOHN GLENNON,
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2012/1027/1224325794233.html
And this letter came from the times, the greatest supporter, and propaganda spreader for the hhc since it began.
We have the lads on here proclaiming on how non payers will be tracked down and harked before the courts etc.
The problem I have with believing this nonsense is, they cannot even 'track down' the people who've already paid. :eek:
Remember, these are people with whom they already have their credit card details/dd firms/cheques postal orders etc.
Hogan should be hung out to dry due to this fiasco!
I note over the past few days on this thread that even the vehement die hard supporters have died a little inside and refused to come on and speak in defence of the shambles.
This one may just be defeated folks. 0 -
This letter gave me a good chuckle with my morning coffee.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2012/1027/1224325794233.html
And this letter came from the times, the greatest supporter, and propaganda spreader for the hhc since it began.
We have the lads on here proclaiming on how non payers will be tracked down and harked before the courts etc.
The problem I have with believing this nonsense is, they cannot even 'track down' the people who've already paid. :eek:
Remember, these are people with whom they already have their credit card details/dd firms/cheques postal orders etc.
Hogan should be hung out to dry due to this fiasco!
I note over the past few days on this thread that even the vehement die hard supporters have died a little inside and refused to come on and speak in defence of the shambles.
This one may just be defeated folks.
Zero chance of that happening Ghandee, despite the best efforts of the Councils to fúck it up, the HHC wont be scrapped and the property tax will be introduced.0 -
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I'll be there
Anyone wishing to meet up either before/afterward's can pm for details.
(might even get a cheeky pint, hell might even drink €100 worth:pac:)0 -
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