Walsall Council!!!

Hi, Thank you all for your responses. ....I am totally cheesed off today! I rang the council and informed the lady I was speaking to of my situation. She then informed me that the reason why the Equita people are on my case is because I still owe £6.11!! For which she started laughing! Then she goes and speaks to her manager he then informs me that they had been some changes to my council Tax and that additional charges of £30.62 had been added! The reason why I am cheesed is because I was not informed this in writing! I had no letter sent to me stating that I had these extra charges!!! I was told I had £300 to pay, which I did! Even when I rang the automated services after a week of having cleared the supposed balance "£300" the machine said that I had £0.00 on my balance!!!! But now when I rang the council they have recently added these charges!! I thing it is bloody pathetic! They could have informed me before trying to send Bailiffs down my house! Apparently these charges occurred as of 8/04/2010!!! However the first letter of Equita was sent at the beginning of March stating that I need to pay £300 within 7 days!!! For which I did!! So really the Bailiffs should have been off my case! But the council did not inform them that I had paid! And now they are asking me to pay additional charges, but surely that should not involve baillifs considering that these charges are from 8/04/10 and no form of written request of this had been sent?! I do understand where these additional charges are coming from (and it is not for legal reasons, but due to my sister who was claiming support as a student, who has recently had her first child etc) Argghh I really hate the council!

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Thanks guys for such prompt replies. Really nice to know that their are good people out there in time of need x... I paid the full amount that was requested on the Equetta letter. It did not state any additional charges on the letter other than informing me that the sum of £300 pounds needed to be paid, which I did. I will email them and inform them that I have paid. I really hope they don't do anything to me and really do not want them visiting my house ...so if I have paid the full charges that were stated on the letter how would I find out what the additional charges were such as court fees etc, because I have not recieved any letter telling me to attend court? ...it's the first year I had to deal with full responsability of bills, council tax etc, I really hate these grown up stuff ...

Beginning of March I received a letter from equitta that I was in errors with my council tax bill of £300. Before that I had no knowledge that I had any errors with the council. I had thought my little brother had paid towards the council tax bill when I had asked him to but he didn't due to some misunderstanding. Therefore I had no knowledge of the errors until I received a letter from Equitta demanding the £300 to be paid within 7 days! So I decided to pay the full amount. I paid £200 on the 6th or March and £100 on 13th of March. So technically I had cleared the errors before the end of the council tax year ended which is the 31st of March 2010! However today (10th of April)) I received another letter from Equitta informing me that they will be visiting my property next week in order to remove items from my house …this has really frighten considering that I have already made the payments and had cleared my council tax bill. In order to be sure that I had cleared all my council tax bill I rang the council tax automated service within March to see whether there were any further charges on my account, but was told that I had no amount due in my account and that it had all been cleared. The only thing which I did not do when I first received a letter from Equitta was pay them directly as I did not trust them so instead paid council tax directly. As I was unable to get in touch with them in person I paid through their automated council tax payment services for which I had reference number for each payment made. So can the bailiffs still come down my house considering I have made the payments …what do I do? Please him me … Thanks in advance...x