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Does anyone know whether the council are entitled to refuse partial cheque payments for CT installments. As those of you who kno me on this forum my councilis difficult and I was going to pay part of my council tax with cheques to the value of 1p . I am looking for a printer at the moment who will be able to pring them in big batches so that the entire payment can be made this way . do the council have any right to refuse payment this way?
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Talk about taking the p! :grin:CAVEAT LECTOR
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You could write a cheque on a paving stone and give that to them. It's been done.Comment
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Remeber the sketch where Tommy Cooper wrote one on a cow?
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I once got a scottish £20 note refused in a shop (even tho they are legal tender)...so I paid £1.74 by every little bit of shrapnel (coins) and dust I could find in my purse/handbag..along with old chewing gum..a broken lipstick..childs dummy..spare nappy (yes Jack WAS a baby) all emptied out on the shop counter,,with a massive queue behind me
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Cheques are not legal tender in the UK. Nobody has to accept them, and they cannot be used in fulfilment of a debt unless the receiver accepts them as such. So yes, the council can refuse them, which would leave you with a bunch of worthless worthless cheques and a printers bill.Originally posted by seduraed View PostComment
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I didn't know that Eloise? since when or has it always been so?Comment
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Mine have always had the validity of a verbal contract!Originally posted by Eloise01 View PostCAVEAT LECTOR
This is only my opinion - "Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?" (Byron)
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Cohen, Herb
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he
gets his brain a-going.
Phelps, C. C.
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!"
The last words of John SedgwickComment
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It has always been the case. And to save the OP the bother of their next best idea, money also isn't always legal tender. Pennies and two pences are only legal tender to a total of 20p; 5p's and 10p's up to £5; 20p's and 50p's up to £10. That is why the bank reserves the right not to take the contents of your money box!Originally posted by Inca View PostComment
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50 years I've trodden this 'ere planet and I never knew that,,I honestly didn't !!Comment
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Just thinking of paying with one p cheques is the daftest idea ive see on LB as Eloise says a cheques is not legal tender so the council may well refuse and as has been said the OP wasted paper and a printer,i dont usually side with a council but this one gets my support to chase the debt however they want ,A CT debt does not go away easily but the bailiffs if called for the debt just add on loads of charges
Whatever next???????????Comment
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Dont get me wrong , I will pay them and I am aware of the change limits. I checked the Royal mint website. It's not to do with not paying it's to do with protesting about theiniquity of the CT system .Comment
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I'll normally fight to the 'enth' degree to make my point but I can't see the point of making myself a target to councils etc...I leave them alone...they leave me alone...works for me.Comment
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