Council - Bankrutpcy Policy

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Dear Department for Communities and Local Government,

The government department with policy responsibility for council tax matters is the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Therefore, please provide under the FOI Act all the information your department holds on the bankrutpcy policy that councils are required to have for their staff to refer to prior to applying for a bankrutpcy petition, and whether it is considered to be maladministration not to have a policy in place.

Yours faithfully,

ivanataylor

Ashwin Jolly,

                            
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Ashwin Jolly,

                            
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Dear Mr Taylor
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for contacting us on 14 June 2016.

Your request was:

 ... please provide under the FOI Act all the information your department
holds on the bankrutpcy policy that councils are required to have for
their staff to refer to prior to applying for a bankrutpcy petition, and
whether it is considered to be maladministration not to have a policy in
place.
 
I am dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and aim to send you a response by 12 July 2016.
 
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Yours sincerely
 
Ashwin Jolly
Deputy FOI Business Partner
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Council Tax - Warning - Are You Expected To Be Mind Readers?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EbPTagw9t0c

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Council Tax -WARNING - Bankruptcy Petitions

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qdMEBs2c7sg

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Council Tax - Is Your Councillor Useful or Useless?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFefpOtGhm0

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Council Tax - Statutory Demand & Bankruptcy Petition Service

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghy0DSlCuF8

Ashwin Jolly,

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Dear Ms Taylor
 
Thank you for your request for information. 
Please find attached, our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Ashwin Jolly
Deputy FOI Business Partner
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Council Tax - Bankruptcy Prescribed Forms

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3inNqlWvA

Dear Department for Communities and Local Government,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Communities and Local Government's handling of my FOI request 'Council - Bankrutpcy Policy'.

How is it possible that the DCLG do not hold any information when you are the government department with policy responsibility for council tax matters and are entrusted to keep them in check ?

Or are you saying that they can make it up as they go along and do not have to follow the same procedures and rules including having a debt recovery policy for bankruptcy etc . Are the people really at the mercy of rogue council's ?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

ivanataylor

Ben Heathcote,

                            
Our reference: 2481448             Information request

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Dear Ms Taylor
 
Internal review under the 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for a review received on 12 July 2016. I am
sorry that you are dissatisfied with our attempts to handle your request
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
I am considering your concerns and will aim to provide you with a response
by 9 August 2016.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Ben Heathcote
Lead FOI Business Partner - Finance and Corporate Services
 
[email address]
 
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Council Tax - Statutory Set Aside Hearings - Appeals?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8D-Zx2vmZE

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Council Tax - Bankruptcy Petition Hearing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx9-C-QyfE8

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Council Tax - Liability Orders - Full Council Question

Here is The Question I asked at our Full Council

" I wish to know whether or NOT a complaint is actually laid before a Magistrates' court prior to a summons being issued by the Magistrates' for non payment of Council Tax"?

They refused to minute the Question! Why?

Are we being 'Rail Roaded' and Stitched Up?

By unscrupulous Council and Court staff, while Elected Councillors turn a blind eye and just keep collecting their expenses and perks?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HBBK1Gf4vmA

Ben Heathcote,

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Dear Ms Taylor
Please find attached the Department's response to your request for an
internal review.
Yours sincerely
 
 
Ben Heathcote
Lead FOI Business Partner - Finance and Corporate Services
 
[email address]

Dorothy Matricks (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

I recall seeing this, or something similar not so long ago and wonder if and why it has been removed?

"Council Tax Unlawful Bankruptcy - Merchants of Menace Shylock & Shysters

Former Cllr Sheena Williams had her 4 Grand-Daughters stolen by the state, Elle-May, Ruby, Lacey and Poppy in the secret family courts, whilst she was an elected Councillor in Maidstone, Kent.

Sheena challenged the Council Tax system after being made aware by her Constituents that all was not as transparent as it appears within the Council and the Courts.

THE PETITION

Maidstone Borough Council Petition – Councillor Scrutiny of Council Tax Enforcement

We the undersigned petition the council that any solicitors, currently or previously instructed to enforce council tax must be scrutinised by Councillors and to prohibit the use of external solicitors for the enforcement of council tax.

That only current up-to-date insolvency prescribed forms shall be submitted for bankruptcy proceedings. That no council tax sum of money submitted to the council's automated system can be re-allocated to a previous already secured amount without your customers express written consent. That a prior warning in plain view must be placed onto the council automated system.

That no council officer without written consent can instigate charging orders or insolvency bankruptcy proceedings on behalf of the council, when notified prior to or afterwards, that the sum paid is to reduce the amount to below either the charging order amount or bankruptcy threshold, because it is always assumed that the money applies to a unsecured not a securitised amount.

We demand that all previous orders obtained by the council without the above due process of law being followed including proper service of current insolvency documents by external solicitor's firms and their agents must be quashed or annulled with immediate effect."

Yvonne Stewart-Taylor left an annotation ()

why has Ivana Taylors account been suspended ?