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Re: Council Tax - Arrest Warrant
[QUOTE=Snoopy1948;663576]Hi bob158 ....
Taking your first posting 'back to basics', there must be some reason why in 2013 you received 100% council tax support ( benefit ) and why your claim was later investigated as fraud.
I do wonder why I was targeted, and suspect it may have been because I made an official complaint against the council tax dept, and was picked out out of spite as retribution. Yes I was interviewed under caution and at the time had no idea what they thought they had found. The anomoly they found was that the limited company I was running had thousands of pounds being deposited in the bank account each year. They could not understand that firstly the company was a different legal entity, and secondly that I could only declare a salary or dividends if the company was making a profit, and it was loss making. they in other words could not understand the difference between turnover and profit. And yes they did not reinstate the benefits.
One of the reasons why I did not attend court was that the financial information they were requesting would not be available, ie accounts for my business, in my innocence therefore I wrote to the court to ask for an adjournment in a few months until that information was available. Clearly I was naive in not attending, but in my defence have only even been in a county court where this would have been acceptable.
To my mind there was definately something not right about the police being called and searching my home without a search warrant, and I wonder whether the man from Rundles mispresented the nature of the arrest warrant and the police believe that it was a criminal offence for which the warrant had been issued. I have made a complaint to the police and hope to get the reason why they believed they had a right to get involved in a civil matter searching for me in my home when there was no evidence that I was even there.
I do have a number of issues with the councils administration over the last few years, from them not having a published debt collection policy, which the ombusdman deems as being maladministration, to them charging me £125 for each liability order. Two high court judges have now said that this is unlawful if they cannot provide financial information to justify it. I asked the council for these calculations and they had none, they could only say that they had an agreement with the magistrates that they can charge £125 each liability order. They receive more from these liability orders than it costs to run the collection department.
I will as suggested make one further plea to the s151 officer, and hope that he is a more reasonable man/executive than the ones I have been writing to.
[QUOTE=Snoopy1948;663576]Hi bob158 ....
Taking your first posting 'back to basics', there must be some reason why in 2013 you received 100% council tax support ( benefit ) and why your claim was later investigated as fraud.
I do wonder why I was targeted, and suspect it may have been because I made an official complaint against the council tax dept, and was picked out out of spite as retribution. Yes I was interviewed under caution and at the time had no idea what they thought they had found. The anomoly they found was that the limited company I was running had thousands of pounds being deposited in the bank account each year. They could not understand that firstly the company was a different legal entity, and secondly that I could only declare a salary or dividends if the company was making a profit, and it was loss making. they in other words could not understand the difference between turnover and profit. And yes they did not reinstate the benefits.
One of the reasons why I did not attend court was that the financial information they were requesting would not be available, ie accounts for my business, in my innocence therefore I wrote to the court to ask for an adjournment in a few months until that information was available. Clearly I was naive in not attending, but in my defence have only even been in a county court where this would have been acceptable.
To my mind there was definately something not right about the police being called and searching my home without a search warrant, and I wonder whether the man from Rundles mispresented the nature of the arrest warrant and the police believe that it was a criminal offence for which the warrant had been issued. I have made a complaint to the police and hope to get the reason why they believed they had a right to get involved in a civil matter searching for me in my home when there was no evidence that I was even there.
I do have a number of issues with the councils administration over the last few years, from them not having a published debt collection policy, which the ombusdman deems as being maladministration, to them charging me £125 for each liability order. Two high court judges have now said that this is unlawful if they cannot provide financial information to justify it. I asked the council for these calculations and they had none, they could only say that they had an agreement with the magistrates that they can charge £125 each liability order. They receive more from these liability orders than it costs to run the collection department.
I will as suggested make one further plea to the s151 officer, and hope that he is a more reasonable man/executive than the ones I have been writing to.
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