Landlord trying to saddle me with 6 years' council tax, after I'd left!

[moggery]

Hi all

Got a call from Islington Council yesterday, an old landlord from 10 years ago (I left the property in Dec 2006) is telling the council I am liable for over £7,000 council tax in that flat from 2006 to 2012...I've been left there 10 years!! I discovered today that the flat has been sold 3 times since I left, 3 times in the same year from 2006 to 2007...It all sounds very dodgy & I don't know how to 'prove' I left. They say I need a tenancy agreement (from 10 years ago??) to prove when & where I moved to next after this flat...My next landlord was very old then & I doubt he's still alive, even if he is I don't remember his address! I since moved again and then bought a house in 2009, where I still live, what more proof do they need? What do I do? And why do I have to provide proof I left this place in 2006, where is the landlord's 'proof' that I didn't leave??

Thanks for any advice, I'm very stressed about this.

moggery

[des8]

Re: Landlord trying to saddle me with 6 years' council tax, after I'd left!

Hi and welcome.

I believe Sec 34 (3) of Council Tax Administration and Enforcement Regulations applies here in part, in that outstanding tax over 6 years cannot be collected
") Section 127(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) does not apply to such an application; but no application may be instituted in respect of a sum after the period of six years beginning with the day on which it became due under Part V. "

And presumably you can prove where you have been living since 2009.

But hang on in tere until others come along with advice [MENTION=15129]Crazy council[/MENTION]

[moggery]

Re: Landlord trying to saddle me with 6 years' council tax, after I'd left!

Thank you for the advice, will see what happens.

[wales01man]

Re: Landlord trying to saddle me with 6 years' council tax, after I'd left!

Your driving licence bank account will be along with other proof of address good enough after all who would not change address when they move?

[moggery]

Re: Landlord trying to saddle me with 6 years' council tax, after I'd left!

Hi, thanks, yes they're saying they need proof that I went to live somewhere else at that time though...I obviously haven't kept any tenancy agreements from 10 years ago so I have no proof that I left at that time... He sold it, I don't understand why he would be liable for it anyway if he sold the place straight after we left...all very confusing.