Right. Got a letter from a bailiff's firm, about them coming to repo stuff from me. for a debt of Council Tax from a place I lived at over 2 years ago. I was sharing with 3 others.
But hang on, i paid my share before moving out, and thought everything was cool?
It appears not...
Unbeknownst to me, the other person liable (one of the others was a student, the other a French embassy official, both exempt) din't pay their share, and buggered off. So, for the last two years, I've been oblivious to the fact that there has been an outstanding debt. Which is not mine, as I've paid my share. We all informed the CT people we were moving out, they sent a final bill, I paid my half in online, and assumed the other person had done the same.
But no.
It transpires that she din't pay owt, and was contacted by the CT recovery team, to pay off the debt. Then, it went to a bailiff's firm, who made arrangements with her, which she subsequently also defaulted on.
Guess what? She's disappeared! BIIIITCH!!!!
Spainish, in't she? Probbly buggered off back there, I'd imagine, without paying off what she owes.
Ok, fine, no problem, I've paid my share, so I 'phone up Bailiff's firm.
'Sorry, but you were jointly liable, so you have to pay off the outstanding debt, plus bailiff's fees'.
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Hang on, surely not?
'Sorry, that's how it goes. CT is payable per household,not by the invididual'.
AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
'And we're coming to get your stuff'.
So I 'phone Council Tax people;
'Sorry, Mr RudeBoy, but as one of the liable tenants, it is your legal obligation to pay the outstanding amount, plus the bailiff's fees'.
Mr RudeBoy is, by now, no longer a Happy Bunny®....
Unfortunately, one of the perils of living in a shared house, is that you are reliant on everyone else paying their share equally. and if one buggers off, you are left with having to pay the lot.
There has been much anguish, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and suffice to say, I am a tad miffed.
It's several hundred pounds, with bailiff's fees added... 
YOU ABSOLUTE ****! YOU NASTY, SNIDEY, VINDICTIVE *****!
This lass, we'd all helped her with all sorts of stuff; I got her a place on a local college course, we helped with her CVs and stuff, I built up a nice little bike for her, I recovered her bike when it had been stolen, cooked for her, looked after her when she was ill, all sorts.
So what have I done, to deserve this?
Proper, proper low. Bang out of order.
And the CT system is flawed, in this kind of situation. Should be per individual, unless you are a 'family'.
Now, I, as you know, am a mild-mannered chap, and i can't bear confrontation, but this is it.
I shall unleash Hell on Earth, for her. She shall feel the full Wrath of RudeBoy. No-one gets to make me look a mug, and gets away with it!
Scenes over East London, today:
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