Rules relating to the appropriation of payments made by a debtor who owes a number of distinct debts to his creditor

fFaudwAtch UK made this Freedom of Information request to Maidstone Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was partially successful.

Dear Maidstone Borough Council,

Lambeth Borough Council was asked to confirm that is used the 'Capita Academy' council tax software and if the statement quoted below was correct regarding how payments are appropriated to a person's Council Tax account when more than one sum is outstanding for different year's liability:

“When any payment is received by the Council it will, unless otherwise specified by the Taxpayer, reduce the balance outstanding for the current year’s outstanding Council Tax or NNDR. Once payment in full has been made for the current financial year any payments subsequently received will go towards reducing any outstanding arrears from previous financial years.”

LAMBETH'S RESPONSE

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/3...

" I can confirm that both statements are a true reflection of our allocation processes.

The council tax regulations are silent as regards payments allocations. Therefore we follow the general principles

• that a payment tendered in an amount which matches an instalment calculated under the regulations, or has been otherwise agreed with the taxpayer in advance of payment, will be allocated against that instalment,

• where the tax payer gives clear instructions at the time of, or shortly after, the payment is made the payment will be allocated in accordance with those instructions,

• in the absence of clear instructions the council will allocate payments to the current year or youngest debt first and arrears after that is clear. "

It is presumed that the 'general principles' referred to by Lambeth Borough Council are taken from established laws of appropriation of payments.

Please disclose the recorded information that Maidstone Borough Council must have to refer to when investigating complaints about the Revenues and Benefit's team allocating payments wrongly.

Yours faithfully,

fFaudwAtch UK

ComplaintsAndFOI (MBC), Maidstone Borough Council

Dear fFaudwatch,

I am refusing this request as it is technically invalid under section 8 (1) (b) of the FOI act.

For a request to be a valid request you must supply a real name. We do not recognise fFaudwatch as a name therefore we will not be processing this request.

If you supply is with your real name we will be happy to process your FOI request.

Yours sincerely,

Samuel Bailey
Information and Projects Officer
Policy and Information Team
Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6JQ
t 01622 602263 f 01622 602978 w www.maidstone.gov.uk

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Dear ComplaintsAndFOI (MBC),

Before I decide whether I'm prepared to disclose my name, can I ask if my identity (when discovered) will influence your decision as to whether the Council holds the information or if it is held whether it will be disclosed?

Yours sincerely,

fFaudwAtch UK

ComplaintsAndFOI (MBC), Maidstone Borough Council

Dear fFaudwatch,

Your identity will not influence whether we hold the information or not.

Whether we disclose it or not depends on whether there are any exemptions in the FOI act that apply.

Yours sincerely,

Samuel Bailey
Information and Projects Officer
Policy and Information Team
Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6JQ
t 01622 602263 f 01622 602978 w www.maidstone.gov.uk

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Dear ComplaintsAndFOI (MBC),N Gilliatt AKA fFaudwAtch UK Yours sincerely, fFaudwAtch UK

Mrs. S Metcalfe left an annotation ()

It is disgusting that people who expose corruption and fraud within the councils' courts' police' or other interconnected services are being banned from simply asking questions, how many more will be or have been banned, how long before they ban me ?

I have resubmitted this question because it is valid to what I have also been answering about.

Neil Gilliatt (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

From: me
To: complaintsandfoi@maidstone.gov.uk
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016
Subject: Freedom of Information request (13 October 2016)

Dear Maidstone Borough Council,

Re: Rules relating to the appropriation of payments made by a debtor who owes a number of distinct debts to his creditor - (13 October 2016)

Response to this request is delayed. By law, Maidstone Borough Council should have responded by 10 November 2016.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Yours sincerely

Neil Gilliatt (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

From: ComplaintsAndFOI (MBC)
To: 'fFaudwAtch UK'
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request (13 October 2016)

Dear [fFaudwAtch UK],

As your account was (at the time the response was due) barred on wdtk.com we have not responded to it. Our reasoning behind this is that if you did not have access to the account you would not be able to receive the response and therefore we do not have a valid address to send the response to.

The request has, however, been re-submitted by another requestor.

We are currently considering it and will respond to this requestor (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...). Once they have received it I am sure they will make it public via wdtk.com. But if not I am happy to send you a copy of our response.

Yours sincerely,

Samuel Bailey
Information and Projects Officer
Policy and Information Team