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  1. Hey, We are due to ring the council again today to fight our case with another person, because god forbid we speak to the same person again. Anyway, I was wondering in regards to the above advise from Debt4Get, is it our legal right that we can ask the council to take the account back from the debt collectors so it cuts them out of the issue? Secondly, in your experience, is it worth arguing that since we never recieved the letter stating what hallowitch posted, that the regulation wasn't upheld as our first exposure to the problem was with the debt collector? I would assume that the letter they would send out should be able to be tracked? Could we demand proof that he was delivered to our apartment? Many thanks for the help already given.
  2. Hey, There is no levy charges on the letter they sent. I think it was written that way to scare us into thinking they were actually at our property. My main beef with this issue is that the council only tried to contact us once to let us know but they claim thats all they have to do.
  3. Hey, The second letter we got claimed that they did attend the property but it was posted in an envelope through the letter box. It also claims that our TV was seized and will be sold in 5 days if we don't settle our bill. Was a little bit confused with that. It was properby scare tactics right? My flatmate was talking to the council today and they said that all they sent was one letter as they had to hire someone to "find us" so that took 3 months. We feed very hard done by these bailiff fees. The council claims that they got our new address in august and sent us the one letter and handed off our account to the debt collectors. in three months they sent us one letter. If we can get our account back in the hands of the council, will that negate the bailiff charges? thanks for the help
  4. Hello, I am having trouble with this debt collection agency and I am in need of advise. This is the story as it stands. 1. We left our old apartment in April 2009 - Rang the local council to let them know and got verbal confirmation that we didn't owe any outstanding council tax. 2. We got a letter in January 2010 from Newlyn Debt Agency explaining that we owed one month (April) of council tax of 112 pounds. Plus 138 pounds for a bailif charge. 3. We contacted them and they said that due to ignoring repeated letters from the council about un paid tax for the month of april, our case has been handed over to them (newlyn). 4. We promptly contacted our old council and explained that we phoned them telling them that we were moving and did we owe anything, as i have already mentioned but they claim they have no record of it. 5. The council claim that they run the land lord the day after moved out looking for a forwarding address. In my mind, this provides proof that we did call them as how else would they know we moved apartment. 6. the council claim that our old landlord got back to them on July 2009 with address and they posted out a letter on 04/Sept/2009 to our new apartment which we never got. This was the only effort on the councils part to contact us, they didn't try to ring us or send us registered mail. Just the one letter. Even though Newlyn said after "repeated efforts" to contact you. 7. They gave our case over to Newlyn on 24/11/09. 8. We went through our bank records to see could we match up the amounts. One of our old flatmates is not contactable at the monent so we have accepted that we will have to pay the 112. 9. On Jan 27 of this year we got a "NOTICE OF DISTRESS" from Newlyn saying : Take notice: by virtue of the Authority of a Magistrates court liability order dated Jun 8, 2009 and obtained by and with the authority or tower hamlets I have this day attended the premises to sieze and distrain upon goods for the sum of 385.57 pounds. unless said sum is paid five days from this date (06/02/09) the goods will be sold. They claim they seized a TV - nothing was taken. 10. From this letter is seems that they were in our apartment when we weren't there. I am no lawyer but im sure this is not legal. 11. We called the council again today and they said: 1. They have no record of us calling to say we’re moving 2. They sent a letter on 04/08/09 to say that we owed council tax 3. They gave our account over to the debt collection agency on 24/11/09 4. She confirmed we only owe £249 and not £385. We should not sign anything with Newlyn. They’re just adding illegal extras on. She’s frozen our account for 14 days so we have this time to sort it out 12. The break down of the 385 is: 112 tax, 178 bailiff charge and 95 court costs. The first we heard of oweing council tax was this Janaury and now we are being hassled by Newlyn for amounts that seem to change per week. I would appreciate any advise on how to handle this situation. in short, we will pay the 112 but don't see any reason why we should have to pay court/bailiff costs due to the fact that the single letter the council sent us got lost in the post. Thank You Paul
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