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You can pay the bill when you're dead: What tax rebel, 74, is told after council finally gives up attempting to collect arrears during her lifetime

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Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on FacebookWhat tax rebel, 74, is told after council finally gives up attempting to collect arrears during her lifetime

This kind of thing is so upsetting.

Just like the Inland Revenue, they will have a call on her estate.

I think they would have the power to force bankruptcy upon her and that would be far more upsetting.

Now what do you find disgraceful ? The lady not paying her dues, like the rest of us, or the way the council have gone about collecting the monies owed ?

Or, perhaps like myself you find the Council Tax System severely flawed

I'd like to pay all my bills when I've popped my clogs, then I could buy that little place in Tuscany I have me eye on now, then everyone else can have what I owe them out of that.

I like this idea, where do you sign up?


:-D

I bet she still expects them to empty her bins though

Wonder how much The Daily Mail paid for her story ;-)

Like the rest of us, she should pay her bills,as they arrive..
we have to........

But having said that a single pensioner wont get much of a pension, I dont suppose,

Quite a few things in life are upsetting but, as this lady has savings of over £16,000, she should pay her bills. There is no need for her to plead poverty to such an extent - there are people far worse off than her who still do what is right by paying their bills.


We don't like parting with our hard earned money to pay Council Tax out of our pension either, but we stump up and budget accordingly.

Very well said Cynthia :-D

Suex :-D <3

She has already had an anonymous person/s pay on her behalf last time,,,,had I been that person/s and now read the extent of her savings I'd be a bit miffed,,,,,,,,yes lone pensioners that live week to week on just their state pension are facing the same who live or own houses ,,,,,,,why doesnt she pay her dues and then campaign against the unfairness of all who is in the same boat,,,,,I'd then feel more sympathy for her cause.

£16-grand aside isnt potless !,,,,,,,.I'd say a real healthy nest egg.

If an agreement has been reached and is legal the council will get their dues at some stage,and without interest..!.

The council just want to hope she doesnt spend it all before she expires. :-D

Who cares whether she is a pensioner or someone in their 30s...she has savings she should pay.

I don't particularly want to pay £825 a month rent...much rather have it paid for me in housing benefit....but I have savings so I get nothing

Can,t see what she,s moaning about.anyone else would have had the Bailiffs sent in to take what was needed to pay off her debt,she,s lucky the council are being lenient with her.they,ve probably put a charge on her property to ensure they get the money owed with interest,and In my opinion so they should,just wonder if they,ve been so lenient with others.

They should have made her pay now! The woman has savings which she is jolly lucky to have managed to hang on to.

Now I shall shut up before I offend people.

And what's to stop her spending all her money now and having holidays of a life-time hmmm me thinks she is on to a good thing here :-S Also (do correct me if I'm wrong which no doubt you all will :-D) but if she spends her savings to under £16k then (provided she only has her pension) she would get CT rebated ...Yes?? :-S

Yep thats right.... Ya don't necessarily have to "spend" it though ,do you. There are other alternatives ;-)

Nolls from Harrogate - If you deprive yourself of capital in order to get benefit, the authorities can treat you as still having that capital, they call this - notional capital

I can't get uptight about what others get/don't get, so I've bought myself the Tuscany Villa, and booked a world cruise :-D

OFTG about 4 years ago my SIL was terminally ill and as she too had just over £16k she got no benefits and the nurses suggested she go for a nice holiday to reduce her account and it would do her some good as it was she never got to do that. I can see what your saying but we understood as long as she had receipts it was OK after all she was entitled to spend her money legally and they would have a hard time trying to prove she had spent money to get benefits. :-S

Lynda Can I come with you too :-D

Oh do shut up Lynda :-P I haven't had my invitation to holiday for free at your Caribbean villa yet, I don't want another disappointment in Tuscany :-( :-D