thanks again for your help its all very welcome,,, i have just read that link does this mean i should not have been charged

thanks for that will do straight away and keep everyone informed

they are taking the mick , my wife left the bailiffs in and we spoke to him nice and they still rippedmeoff ,take it all the way and have his badge taken from him gl m8

i phoned the council and the bailiffs up monday and the bailiff said he made the levy out before we paid?and i told him about the charges of the walking possession (i paid why are you charging me for that he said we will give you that fee back £11

hello i had the bailiffs around on friday for council tax which was stopped by my bank for some reason in december,my wife let him in and he sat down,i thought he was from the council,he then said we missed the payment in december and now we must pay the full amount up as far as april i think,he asked can we do that we said no,he then said if you cant i will have to do a levy and walking possession on your goods ,so me and my wife said we will check the banks now and see what we can do so we ask him how much is it? he then worked it out at £509.55 we checked the banks and we had the money to pay him so we did by debit card,after we paid he then said im still have to do a levy and walking possession,is this right? mY council tax bill was £440.05 £22.50 release charge £36 levy and £11 walking possession so £69.50 paid to them on top

Thanks again for your reply. I paid by debit card, if this makes any difference. If I was able to get my bank to stop the payment going through, and I then paid the council direct, would I owe the bailiffs anything? Say a first visit fee? And if so would they be able to take my possessions to cover that, even though the items listed would be worth way more than the fees? Sorry to keep asking you questions all the time, but you are extremely helpful, and I definately need all the help I can get!!

Thanks for the reply, and the info. If I was to cancel the card payment, and then pay the council direct, because I signed that document would they have the right to come into my home and take our possessions? Do I have the right to cancel the card payment now, or is it too late? And what charges would I have to pay to the bailiffs if I did this? Or is it easier to do as you suggested, and leave the payment go through, and then claim the charges back from the council? Sorry for all the questions, but I am not very clued up on all this, and need all the help I can get!!

Hi, this is my first post on here. We fell behind on our council tax payments last year, and it was sent to court. i phoned the council and agreed to pay £130 a month for the rest of the couuncil tax period. On friday, I had a knock on the door, and it was a bailiff come to speak to my hysband and I about our council tas arrears. I told him that i pay it by BACS £132 every month. He telephoned his office and was told that the BACS had been cancelled because decembers payment had not gone through. (Obviously not enough money in my account to pay it). So he said lets have a chat about it, and came into the house. He asked us if we could pay the outstanding balance of £440.05, to which I replied no. He then told us that we could pay monthly but not by BACS because it had been stopped, and because of this he would have to do an inentory of our possessions incase we did not pay. I checked my bank balance and found that I could pay the balance off with my debit card on the day. So he then worked out our bill which came to 509.55 with charges. I gave him my card and he phoned the payment through. The payment was succesful, yet he still took down a list of our possessions in the living room (tv, xbox and wii). Did he need to do this since we had paid the full amount, and did we need to pay all those charges, since we cleared the bill? As far as I can understand form the copy of the notice of seizure and inventory he gave me, we were charged £22.50 release fee, £36 for levy fee, and £11 possession fee. Are these charges correct?? Thanks for your help

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