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Unpaid Council Tax Bills!

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piggynose | 16:29 Thu 27th Jun 2024 | Law
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Just been issued with a bailiff bill of £752!! After a lot chasing around, it appears to be unpaid council tax, 6 months prior to Feb 2021. A Tennant was living there at the time, and since then has moved on! I don't suppose I have no choice but to pay it? Btw my property was managed by a prop management Co.

Surely they are liable? 

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Do you have any evidence of the property being rented out at the time thatyou can show the council?

Was the property management company collecting the council tax as well as the rent?  I think that is the only scenario where they would be liable.  They wouldn't know the council tax wasn't being paid otherwise.

Send the ex-tenants' details to the council. You shouldn't have to pay

you are not responsibl  for paying councl  tax as alandlord unless it is empty ( or you have agreed otherwise)

but  ... it  strikes me that you are  gonna have evidential problems with proving it was occupied. First stop the management company...

You don't just get a bailiff bill there must have been dozens of letters/bills/demands/court appearance letter etc. Have you not had those?

no  TTT I think they were sent 'elsewhere' - the new tenants arent obliged to  send on documents

so there may be a long paper trail the OP cant access.... hence evidential burden/ difficulties

the  OP is not liable in law, but that is the least of it

two theads on this

we all think there is  something fishy going on - refer back to the council

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