Mark Ceylo
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Alan Murdie, barrister
The council tax is 22 years old in 2015. It replaced the ill-fated ‘poll tax’ that ended the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, and it marked a return to a land tax based upon 1991 valuation figures, with a strong personal element. A cornerstone of the original system was a national scheme which covered 100 per cent of the poorest citizens’ council tax liabilities; however, council tax benefit was abolished in 2013 and replaced with hundreds of differing local systems of support. Default levels have since soared.
Council tax has been going badly wrong for over a decade, as shown by the rising default rate, and the maladministration of council tax benefit long before 2013. The original intention was that the system should be simple, fair and easy to administer, and it should protect the most vulnerable. The current labyrinthine system is little more than anaemic version of the poll tax in many areas, with the liability order becoming the most frequently granted court order of any kind in England and Wales, and the only people really profiting from it are outsourced review administration companies such as Capita and bailiffs, a number of whom have become millionaires.
Enforcement is now seriously compromised by two emerging legal problems, which potentially threaten the lawfulness of council tax debt recovery. A powerful case can be made that the costs claimed by local authorities on liability order applications are unlawful and, worse still, it could be that millions of liability orders supposedly obtained by authorities do not actually exist in lawful form at all.
