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Big Brother Watch has released a report exposing the shocking extent to which councils use debt recovery agents such as bailiffs to recover unpaid council tax and parking fine debts.

Across the 320 local councils who responded to a Freedom of Information request from Big Brother Watch, almost six million (5,939,003) cases have been passed to bailiffs for the late payment of council taxes and parking fines.

The full report, including a breakdown of the number of cases passed to bailiffs by local authority by a) overall number, b) non-payment of council tax  c) parking infringements, can be found here (from page 8 onwards).

 

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Press Office, Research and reports
  • Melvillevsmedway

    b) non-payment of council tax….? Is this council tax that is rightly owed or council tax that is allegedly owed due to the councils and magistrates fraudulent hearings that not hearings.

    6 times I presented myself to the Chatham Magistrates court and 6 times I did not receive a hearing where I could challenge Medway council on its negligent and fraudulent claims of owed council Tax.

    There was a time when I believed in justice and that the United Kingdom justice system was fair but since moving to Rochester in Kent that belief has faded.