Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 17:03:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

anyone?

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 17:15:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Please please can someone reply? I currently have a baliff knocking at my door I've turned the tv off and taken the dog with me to the back of my house my dd is upstairs looking out of the window to keep me updated (he can't see her dw)

**Guest** · 27th August 2014, 17:18:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Can you remember when B&S first became involved in this? Also if they have visited your home and when this was?

Did you ever start up repayments and then stop again? Or have you agreed to pay so much a month and then paid less?

Do you receive single persons discount for your council tax? Do you receive any other discount for your council tax or any other benefit?

**Guest** · 27th August 2014, 17:20:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Originally posted by CheekyChops View Post

Please please can someone reply? I currently have a baliff knocking at my door I've turned the tv off and taken the dog with me to the back of my house my dd is upstairs looking out of the window to keep me updated (he can't see her dw)

Do not open the door under any circumstances.

I've just sent you my number. Phone me if you need to.

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 17:25:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Hi
thanks it was November time last year and then on New Year's Eve they came and they have being coming regularly ever since. I have revived single persons so discount on this years bill but not the bill owe. And I don't revive any other discount on my CT Bill.

I have never started repayments with B&S only with york city council and I have repayed every repayment since April but that is being paid to York City council not B&S. I haven't answered the door thanks your help!

**Kati** · 27th August 2014, 17:29:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Don't worry hun ... I'm sure someone will be along soon!!

Personally I think you should be putting in formal complaints to the council AND b&s about the abysmal way they are treating you!! You are already in a payment plan with the council, so b&s shouldn't be threatening you with anything. They are not allowed to threaten you, they are not allowed to force entry into your home.

Get in touch with the CT dept at your council and lodge a formal complaint. Tell them everything the bully from b&s are saying, and ask to speak to the 'head of department'. Go and see your local MP too - I'm sure s/he will be more than willing to step in and help you!! Contact b&s in writing (copying in the council too) sending it recorded/signed for (approx £2) with a second formal complaint about the people involved.

These bully boy tactics are not right (and are going against the regulations too) they need stopping

Kati x

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 17:34:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Thankyou
I will begin writing a formal complaint the baliff has gone down to a friend of my down the road who owes CT they threatened her little boy too! My dd wants to be a lawyer for reasons like this! Threatening a 15 year old though?! I did post on mn a few months ago but got stuck up replies of it was my own fault.i will write to my local mp and tell them.
The thing is I'm paying my debt! I'm just paying it to the council!

**Guest** · 27th August 2014, 17:35:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Log onto B&S website & then log into your account. Have a look at the statement for last year. This will tell you the date any fee was added to your account and the reason for the fee. It will also tell you the amount of the fee. Have a look & come back on here & tell us what they've charged you.

Who is the "council tax advisor" that you keep mentioning? Does the paperwork that they sent off include details of your employer etc?

**Kati** · 27th August 2014, 17:39:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

b&s are pushing too far hun ... they cannot do this!! if you are in a payment plan with the council, then b&s shouldn't even be involved.

Do you and the woman down the road get on well?? It might be worth BOTH of you putting in complaints to the council about the threats from the bailiffs :tinysmile_twink_t2:

oh ... and - don't worry about the stuck up eejits on MN (they aren't worth it)

Kati x

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 17:46:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

We get on well yeah..she's not the kind for complaining though
ive logged on
my charges are levving £75.00
force charges £200.00
van £60.00
and then the council tax debt
I owe £800.00 to them

i will defineltly be complaining and after looking at my council tax website for york I think I may be entitled to 50% not 25% I will be ringing up tomorrow for advice.

The council tax advisor are a charity who help solve council tax debt a bit like stepchange. They only sent it to york council and I just put the name of my employer but I didn't put an address or anything or state with company address my wages come from. But it's just the council that have it. Trouble is york city council are bad for replying and sending acknowledgement to people so I suspect they haven't actually told B&S I'm paying my debt off

**Guest** · 27th August 2014, 18:22:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

I'm really struggling to get my head around all of this, so please bear with me.

A levy fee for a debt of around £800 should have been around £36. If there were visit fees prior to the levy then that would bring it up to around the £75 mark.

I have no idea what a "force" charge is and have never seen this on a B&S statement before. The £60 van fee is also way,way below what B&S used to charge.

I didn't think B&S collected for York council either?

We really need to get all facts straight before deciding whether a formal complaint or merely a letter would be the most appropriate in this instance. I appreciate Kati is very hot on the "threats" side of things but something isn't right here. If there is a levy on goods, it is doubtful that the council would then enter into a payment plan.

Is there anything else you can add Cheeky Chops, that may help? What are the dates that these fees have been added?

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 18:33:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

Hi
sorry I copied and pasted wrongly
The fees are
Tax amount £600.00
summons cost £10.00
liability order £10.00

B&S Fees
1st visit £24.50
2nd visit £18.00
post enforcement stage £ 235.00

thats the fees on my account
it is Defoe B&S too!

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 18:34:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

The Dates are
10/10/13
6/4/14
6/4/14

Their has been other visits but I haven't being charged for them

**CheekyChops** · 27th August 2014, 18:35:PM

Re: Help: council tax debt: bristow and sutor

They have never entered my house!
They don't have a levy of goods

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