Easter Sunday enforcement visit bailiff action for Rates

[bizzybob]

Re: Easter Sunday enforcement visit bailiff action for Rates

which is why I think formal complaints need to go in ASAP :tinysmile_hmm_t2:

Definitely, CEO, Elected Leader, local ward member and MP, also send a copy to Data commissioner, if person being chased by Jacobs was nothing to do with Ltd Company, Jacobs had no right to discuss, disclose or collect from them on the debt. They should have gone through the executors.

[Pancake]

Re: Easter Sunday enforcement visit bailiff action for Rates

Needs escalating through the Council - at least Head of Revenues & with Bailiffs should be Simon Jacobs who is made aware.

Have you contacted your local Councillor(s) yet?

Again, thank you all for your input, as mentioned before this is not a simple cut and dry example of Jacobs making a mistake, it is a combination of both local council and Jacobs taking advantage of a situation.

the business in question was successful for several years up to the point when the local council introduced an unprecedented permit parking scheme around the premises, in an isolated industrial estate, the local council demanded a one off fee of £175 up front for the privilege of parking a mile away from a football stadium, they did not introduce this anywhere else nearer to the stadium or in their borough, after years of successful trading the business was destroyed in just one single match, ever since it has struggled. The local authority then increased business rates by more than double whilst removing the ability to trade to pay them, now Jacobs treat them like criminals.
eventually the local authority backed down and removed the £175 permit fee, replacing it with a single matchday fee of just £4 but has done nothing to compensate for loss of business, or to help get the lost customers back.
it instead enforces bailiff action at the first sign of financial difficulties.
the local council refuses to enter into any kind of dialogue for the damage caused by the ill thought out permit parking scheme, unheard of anywhere else in the country

[Pancake]

Re: Easter Sunday enforcement visit bailiff action for Rates

which is why I think formal complaints need to go in ASAP :tinysmile_hmm_t2:

Update, now that Jacobs have the full information the issues have been addressed, business rates are owed and arrangements have been made for this, wife as third party has been removed from any responsibility to the debt and the estate accepts full liability.
we have liaised directly with Simon Jacobs himself who has been sympathetic to the families situation, no further charges have been added and a payment arrangement appropriate to the business put in place. A formal complaint has gone into the local council which will be followed up to the local government ombudsman. Local councillors and MP have come on board to support the complaint, not one person, organisation or business has shown any support for the shambolic scheme and all are in agreement it was purely designed as a revenue generator as opposed to a traffic management scheme.
thank you for your earlier comments.