Had a bailiff from Penhamexcel who informed me that I owed council tax and he was here to take an inventory. He just had a piece of paper with an amount on and the bailiff charge of 24.50. We are in arrears with Council tax. We finished paying off one debt last year for council tax and informed Central Bedfordshire we would carry on paying the £200 a month until the 2012/2013 year was finished and carry on until the 2013-2014 year was finished which would be next March April. They agreed. We have paid on or near time for the last five months.
The Council, I believe, and I am still awaiting their reply on the situation, though they have acknowledge my e-mail and passed it on to revenue, have the outstanding amount from last year and automatically the system has flagged it up. I have received no court information at all, I assumed as the amount on our account on the Council website shows the amount going down with last year and this years payments together that they had acknowledged our letter and were happy.
We haven't dodged it we are paying. The Court would certainly accept we were doing our best to clear the debt in a timely fashion which means that CBC did not use our correspondence and CBC reply to inform the court - it just seems to be rubber stamped. I do not see any reason, other than i should of informed them again to cover my back of the plan we would like to use, why i should tell them anything. They have it writing what we are doing and it is up to them to make sure that this is implemented.
What would be the best way to resolve this?
The idiot bailiff was trying to lecture me on not paying and how would I like it and was taken aback when i said it was being paid off. He said he would be back in 4 days but I will be ready for him.
One aspect that makes we wonder a bit is that I have been campaigning against certain Central Bedfordshire planning applications quite forcefully and a friend of mine has been fighting against CBC for sometime. We both, in the last week, had problems with our council tax. I know it is unlikely but you never know.
I have returned and i would like to tell people who contacted me before that my business has closed and i am out of the shop and my sons house is nearing completion and i have kept my sanity and dignity by clearing and digging his garden and that has stopped me getting mad over potential employers ignoring you or in one case saying my experience to run a bookshops was not enough to run a bookshop! After thirty five years of running bookshops I was mad and Oxfam have got both barrels. Ageism is now rearing its ugly head. But i do have plans to work for myself.
The Council, I believe, and I am still awaiting their reply on the situation, though they have acknowledge my e-mail and passed it on to revenue, have the outstanding amount from last year and automatically the system has flagged it up. I have received no court information at all, I assumed as the amount on our account on the Council website shows the amount going down with last year and this years payments together that they had acknowledged our letter and were happy.
We haven't dodged it we are paying. The Court would certainly accept we were doing our best to clear the debt in a timely fashion which means that CBC did not use our correspondence and CBC reply to inform the court - it just seems to be rubber stamped. I do not see any reason, other than i should of informed them again to cover my back of the plan we would like to use, why i should tell them anything. They have it writing what we are doing and it is up to them to make sure that this is implemented.
What would be the best way to resolve this?
The idiot bailiff was trying to lecture me on not paying and how would I like it and was taken aback when i said it was being paid off. He said he would be back in 4 days but I will be ready for him.
One aspect that makes we wonder a bit is that I have been campaigning against certain Central Bedfordshire planning applications quite forcefully and a friend of mine has been fighting against CBC for sometime. We both, in the last week, had problems with our council tax. I know it is unlikely but you never know.
I have returned and i would like to tell people who contacted me before that my business has closed and i am out of the shop and my sons house is nearing completion and i have kept my sanity and dignity by clearing and digging his garden and that has stopped me getting mad over potential employers ignoring you or in one case saying my experience to run a bookshops was not enough to run a bookshop! After thirty five years of running bookshops I was mad and Oxfam have got both barrels. Ageism is now rearing its ugly head. But i do have plans to work for myself.
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