I went to the council a month or two ago to check if we were clear of debt and she said
'Yes you have paid that but there is still £110 owing from another council tax debt from 2008'
She said that they had sent letters about it to old and current address and we hadn't heard anything
They said that it had also gone to a bailiff - who we had no letters from, surely if we hadn't responded to letters they would have come to the door?? Which they had not!
I paid the £110 in cash and have receipts to show this. That was a couple of months ago. In the post this morning I had a letter from the Bailiff saying we have £22.50 on the account and we owe it to them! We have to pay it straight away. We have the money and I am willing to pay it but why now?
There is no reference to where the debt has come from either.
Oh and the icing on the cake is if we pay any other way but cash or cheque they will charge us £3.00 for it!
Because we heard nothing until now do we legally have to pay it??
OH will call them Tuesday but I am really pissed off!
I know that we can't prove that we had no letters but noone has come here or anything xx