#bailiffs : This takes more than the biscuit

[ploddertom]

This morning I received a Reminder Notice dated 19 April advising Non Payment of NNDR and giving 7 days (which is up today) to put it right. Dragging all my paperwork out it transpires they have not even sent me the intial Demand Notice, even better is that this account has always been paid by DD but examining the bank account reveals the DD has been cancelled.

 

Needless to say spit and feathers comes to mind. One wonders if the timing is deliberate to take advantage of the current spate of Bank Holidays - or am I just getting paranoid.

 

PT

[dx100uk]

no you are not

 

we've seen about 5 claims from link and others perfectly timed !!

 

dx

[outlawla]

I think you can be forgiven for being suspicious about anything the council gets up to. Some of your circumstances coincide with those I have noticed which I have brought to the attention of the council and which of course they have always an answer i.e. they can't be responsible for the post. I consistently receive letters – particularly those auto-generated ones – 7 or 8 days after the date which is printed on them. My argument is that postal delays always seem to coincide at around the same time that the council decides to produce –en mass– its reminder, last chance or instalment facility withdrawal notices; the point being that the council can not tailor each one of the thousands of notices to the actual date they are sent out.

Edited April 26, 2011 by outlawla

[Tingy]

I always respond saying that as they did not specify I assumed it was 7 working days. You can buy yourself a little bit of time then!

[hallowitch]

I wonder why/how and who cancelled the direct debit

 

Ive been paying my council tax by DD for years set it up in 1999 never had a problem with it

[brassnecked]

I think there will be a great many caught out by this, and as we know only too well, councils and their bailiffs will take advantage.