On 9 Feb, 22:35, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
wrote:
About 10 years ago I was in my early 20s' and flat sharing with
friends and others.
We generally neglected to pay council tax and other assorted bills
(very guesstimated at £7000).
Inevitably 10 yrs later I have ended up receiving letters from a debt
buyer asking for information about my residence at one of my old
address'.
Would anyone offer any advice (apart from "Told you so!") as to my
best course of action? I'm intending to contact the agency, but I
wouldn't want to volunteer any more info than is necessary.
I'm hoping to get an interview with Citizens Advice ASAP.
Cheers

10 years later is well out of time. *They can't collect provided you don't
admit to it at any point.

Jonathan,
Thanks for the help,
I moved from the address 7 years ago and only recently appeared on
council tax bills etc.
This is the first time I have been approached by any agencies and have
not admitted any ownership of the debt.
Once again many thanks.
Cheers

On 10 Feb, 10:50, "tim \(not at home\)"
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message

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Jonathan Bryce wrote:
wrote:

About 10 years ago I was in my early 20s' and flat sharing with
friends and others.
We generally neglected to pay council tax and other assorted bills
(very guesstimated at £7000).
Inevitably 10 yrs later I have ended up receiving letters from a debt
buyer asking for information about my residence at one of my old
address'.
Would anyone offer any advice (apart from "Told you so!") as to my
best course of action? I'm intending to contact the agency, but I
wouldn't want to volunteer any more info than is necessary.
I'm hoping to get an interview with Citizens Advice ASAP.
Cheers

10 years later is well out of time. *They can't collect provided you
don't admit to it at any point.

They can if they obtained a Liability Order within the six years which
they
may well have done. See below.

http://www.payplan.com/debt-library/...iability-the-l...

In thought the rules for Council Tax (and Poll tax) were different and the
debt doesn't expire.

ISTR reading that there are some LAs still chasing Poll Tax debts.

tim

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Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post
Cheers

On 9 Feb, 19:00, "
wrote:
About 10 years ago I was in my early 20s' and flat sharing with
friends and others.
We generally neglected to pay council tax and other assorted bills
(very guesstimated at £7000).
Inevitably 10 yrs later I have ended up receiving letters from a debt
buyer asking for information about my residence at one of my old
address'.
Would anyone offer any advice (apart from "Told you so!") as to my
best course of action? I'm intending to contact the agency, but I
wouldn't want to volunteer any more info than is necessary.
I'm hoping to get an interview with Citizens Advice ASAP.
Cheers

Many Thanks To All
Any other advice is more than welcome

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On Feb 10, 9:35 am, Jonathan Bryce wrote:

10 years later is well out of time. They can't collect provided you don't
admit to it at any point.

Now quite right!

If during the 1st 7 years they haven't found you...you might have a
chance to get away with it, but and here's the rub, if you have simply
changed your account to another branch and avoided re payment, you can
be done even after 10 years, up to 15 years in fact.....so running
away and not responding for 7 years wont always win, you need not have
had any contact with any part of the group for 15 years to really get
away with it.

All the person who you owed money has to do is show that the debt owed
was within the 15 years limit was to another unit of the same group
and your done....he will point out that you simply did a runner and
refused to acknowledge until you were tracked down, so admitting or
not admitting wont come into it to help you and will cause further
problems to you when you're finally brought to court

I really would like to see some authority for this assertion because I do
not think that it is right.

This is a claim for a sum of money due under an enactment,a nd the
limitation period appears to be 6 years from the date of accrual.

If, as I suspect, the 15 years is intended to be based on section 14A of the
Limitation Act 1980, then this does not apply to claims for sums dueunder an
enactment, nor for claims in contract. It applies only to claims in
negligence, which this is not.

If there is a special limitation period for Council Tax claims, then I want
to know about it.

(I accept that a Liability Order, being a judgment can be ENFORCED within
six years from its date, but that is a different point fromt he one being
advanced here)


Andrew McGee