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 Registered Member #141 Joined: Sun Mar 09 2008, 06:17PMPosts: 183 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/dec/16/council-tax-shock-single-person-discount Interesting, particularly worth reading are some of the comments by "PAN1" (who is not me! and I have no personal interest in Council Tax discounts). Seems to be another example of abuse of personal data and the law being ignored if money is to be made by corporations. | ||
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| Gordon |
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 Registered Member #287 Joined: Thu Apr 03 2008, 09:06PMPosts: 380 | Ludicrous! My sister lives on a narrowboat, not with a permanent mooring, she's constantly on the move, and has no fixed address. As luck would have it, she doesn't visit here that often and uses my niece, who she's more in touch with in real life than she is with me, for anything that needs a proper address - but if she used me, I'd be in almost the same boat (no pun intended) as the woman in that story. There's a difference, it's true, in that Sis is easily contactable by phone or e-mail (as long as she's in an area where she can get a signal, which she is most of the time), and I have the name of her tub, which is, of course, registered with British Waterways on a "travelling" licence, so I'd have less difficulty proving that she doesn't live here - but given the generally obstructive and incompetent nature of the ill-mannered scum in Brent Council's Revenue and Benefits section, you can bet your life they'd take me to court before they got around to reading the correspondence (just as they did over the poll tax, and lost, of course, because the magistrate had something they didn't - a brain - so that cost them!) and it would be yet another lot of hassle. Brent are so thick that I had the bailiffs round on one occasion regarding a previous tenant's non-payment of council tax. The guy who turned up (and was surprisingly pleasant) was, of course, pursuing things on behalf of Brent Council. They hadn't thought of telling him that they *knew* he'd moved to somewhere in Wiltshire to be with his father (whose health was in a bad way) and had been removed from the electoral roll here over three years previously, so tracking him down via his father in Wiltshire was what was required. I don't suppose Bristol are much different - the usual bunch of brainless peasants incapable of seeing beyond their computer screen, no doubt. | ||
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