High Cost/Bulk Council Tax Liability Orders Impossible to Defend?
Dear Billing Authority
Complaints to Magistrates for Council Tax (CT) Liability Orders.
Going as far back as is reasonable (eg 5 years), up to the most recent data available, Please could you provide me with a table of information under the following headings:-
1. Date Of hearing
2. Number of CT Accounts Listed on a Complaint
3. Total Court fee paid
4. length of hearing - defended/undefended
5. Number of CT accounts Liability Order made against
6. Total costs awarded to Billing authority
7. Actual cost of preparing for and attending the hearing.
8. Number of Accounts in name of a Limited Company?
Yours faithfully,
Lady Fleming
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Dear Lady Fleming,
Freedom of Information
Please see below the response to your enquiry under the Freedom of
Information Act received on 5^th February 2019:
1.Date of hearing? - In above spreadsheet
2. Number of CT Accounts Listed on a Complaint? - We cant get this out of
the system.
3. Total Court fee paid? – In above spreadsheet
4. length of hearing - defended/undefended? - We don’t record this.
5. Number of CT accounts Liability Order made against? – In above
spreadsheet
6. Total costs awarded to Billing authority? – In above spreadsheet.
7. Actual cost of preparing for and attending the hearing? - Our costs are
calculated to £102 per case on average, plus the 50p Magistrates charge us
for each liability order, totalling £102.50 we request for each case at
court
8. Number of Accounts in name of a Limited Company? - Its not possible to
split this out from the aggregated data in business objects.
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Information Commissioner's Office
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Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
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national rate number
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Yours sincerely
David Walker
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