HCC: Council Tax Dodging Councillors

HCC: Council Tax Dodging Councillors

Following FOIA disclosures regarding Councillors who did not pay their Council Tax without recourse to enforcement procedures at;

• Richmodshire District Council

• Hambleton District Council

• East Lindsey District Council

• North East Lincolnshire Council

• Hambleton District Council

• Selby District Council

Hull City Council (HCC) is the next Council to provide a response to one of a series of identical Freedom of Information requests, in the following terms:

For each of the financial years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 until the date of your response:

(1) which HCC Councillors have been the subject of recovery action, either in the form of demands sent by letter or email, or by court action. Please specify which type of recovery action, where applicable.

(2) which HCC Councillors have been barred from participating in voting on budgetary decisions, contingent upon Council Tax arrears of two months or more.

Councillor Richard BARRETT [Ind.] has apparently endured a difficult period in 205/16, defaulting on Council Tax payments on two separate accounts and three Reminders, a Final Notice and two Summonses.

Councillor Karen MATHIESON [LibDem.] has apparently kept a clean sheet since 2012/13, when she received two Reminders and one Summons.

Following two Reminders, mother and daughter Councillors Cheryl and Ruth PAYNE [LibDem.] – not to be confused with the celebrity sisters-in-law of the same names – who were jointly liable for the Council Tax on their property were duly issued with Summonses in 2014/15 and a Reminder and a Summons in 2015/6.

Four others, designated only as Councillor A, Councillor B, Councillor C and Councillor D have not been identified as they no longer serve on Hull City Council.