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Council Tax

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  • 07-05-2013 10:19am
    #1
    pudgeydev
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭


    Hi all,
    I'm looking for some advice on dealing with the UK council tax office. So the o/h moved to Manchester last September for a couple of months with the hope of finding work. She lived with 2 students, as she wasn't a student she was liable for the council tax. Now she sent them a few emails on it and they were asking for £224. She had planned on staying until May but moved out in December as things didn't work out.

    Her deposit along with the 2 students was tied up until now. She's just received the post, some mails from the tax office with a demand for the years council tax, with bailiff threats and the rest, with a demand for over £1000.

    Is there anything she can do in this situation, I don't like the "ignore everything" option as these things have a way of being never ending and she doesn't want to hamper her deposit as well as that of her ex housemates.

    Any advice welcome, because it has been left so long and escalated to bailiff level is she liable for everything or does she just have to prove she was home?
    Thanks!


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    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Is she back in Ireland? Did she pay the £224? The council tax now is for the coming year (I just paid it for 2013/14 last week) and was due end of April.


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    pudgeydev
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭pudgeydev


    Hi, No she didn't pay the £224, she went with the ignore everything option... when she moved out in December.
    It'd be grand to pay that, but not the £1000+ that they're looking for.
    Yeah she's back in the ould sod!


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    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    It's likely she can make her case to the council and only pay what she initially owed. It's unlikely she will be followed to Ireland for the debt but she'd never be able to live in the UK again as they could arrest her for unpaid council tax.

    Best bet would be to contact the council and explain the situation to work out an arrangement.


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    questionmark?
    Registered Users Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Call them. Offer the 200 odd that was meant to be paid. Don't provide a forwarding address in Ireland or you'll get threatening letters which cant be followed up but would be worrying all the same to have them land in your letter box.

    Her credit rating will be destroyed in the UK for a minimum of six years as likely a CCJ is/will be registered against her name.


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