03-07-2018, 08:41 PM
(03-07-2018, 04:20 PM)Charlotte4711 Wrote: I feel your pain bassninja, I just don’t know the answer my dear! It’s daylight robbery just like the IRS in the US!
But unless everyone stands up and refuses to pay it... they won’t reign it in! We live in a friggin fascist state already!
All I can do is sympathise I’m afraid ... I have an equally horrendous council tax bill each month but we soldier on like the good little slaves we are...
I have studdied this phenomenon for several years now, and the discressional route is not appealable if they suddenly decide you have enough funds in your kitty, this is now being ramped up even further.
The message on their grape vine is, that local councils are now in fear of their own funds being cut even further, so they must now try to get more back from the general public, many workers are themselves on part time hours, thus do not have a good hold on what is actually going on, a trick is also not to sign letters which they seem to think will make them immune to suit.
What they are also doing is trying to get older folks out of their family homes and to move into rabbit cages and let the houses out to housing associations and now in many areas in the sticks to immigrants for even higher rents, which they claim back from central government, it is a huge racket and number crunching game which they cannot win and will also be decimated in the intrim.
All by design.