i told the council again i never lived in the property, i received another bill waiving the original 7 years and for £347 approx, i didnt prove where i lived and i received an email from them yesterday saying the matter is now finished and that i wouldnt be hearing from them again,,,

i have a probblem with equifax giving incorrect info to haringey council, i have an £8000 bill for council tax from this council. i never lived there, and the man at the council told me equifax gave them the information, i emailed them but they dont reply, now i will write letter,

hi, well he wasnt my landlord because i never lived there. but i havent contacted him yet, i asked the council guy what dates they had for me living there, he only said from 2005 not the date i was meant to have vacated the property.

thanks for all your advice.especially about the letters and copies, the whole thing appears like a mind game but i have to take it sreiously and find out the way to go about dealing with them,the funniest thing is when you call the council, it is always a 12 minute wait-i wonder how they manage to keep it like that.its good the customer service guy at the council told me about equifax though, i keep e mailing them but they never reply. i wont call as its 0871(could be any rate).i am not really worried about this as i never lived there but registering on this site has really helped as to the way to proceed.the jump from 5000 to 8000 was wierd, but i notice they havent put the £sign in the total, so it could be 8000 haringey apples i owe them,

thats what i thought, have the council been sending bills there for seven years and not finding out for sure if i was there in that time, it seems unreal that they havent sent bailiffs already etc,

its like a wind up. i have no idea if tenants in that property share the council tax bill or anything, i will have to try and get contact details for the landlord of the property.

maybe thats a new way to try and get money for them, i read this council are heavily in debt.

thanks for that, i lived in bedsits in london, and the owners paid. here its the same.

i payed a deposit to a mr brown of hackney of £300 for a bedsit in highgate in 2005, i then decided i didnt want to move there, i went to try and get the deposit back but was refused.

i left london two months later;

on monday i received a council tax bill for £5000 from haringey council i called them to explain , the customer service guy said they had received info from equifax that i had resided in haringey since 2005, he said i have to send proof to them where i have lived since then,

yesterday i received a bill for £8026.so it is escalating quite fast, i have e mailed equifax who havent replied.

i dont see why i should produce evidence for them where i have lived and my income,

i wondered if this is something that happens often and what legally i have to do