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It's a very simple trick, and Liberata engage in it when collecting the Southwark council tax.
Each year you fail to record one payment on each council tax account that is paid by the payer making a standing order through their bank, and then at the end of the year you claim it from them again. This is most easily done by sending out the council tax demand too late for them to be able to commence the payments in the first month of the period, thus obliging them to start a month late or send a cheque for the first month and pay the rest by standing order. This prompts the automatic reminder to be put in the post, and once that is there you don't bother to cancel it when the cheque arrives.
If, on the other hand, the payments are coming in a month late you only record nine out
Each year you fail to record one payment on each council tax account that is paid by the payer making a standing order through their bank, and then at the end of the year you claim it from them again. This is most easily done by sending out the council tax demand too late for them to be able to commence the payments in the first month of the period, thus obliging them to start a month late or send a cheque for the first month and pay the rest by standing order. This prompts the automatic reminder to be put in the post, and once that is there you don't bother to cancel it when the cheque arrives.
If, on the other hand, the payments are coming in a month late you only record nine out
of the ten payments. Either way you have a profit - and if the taxpayer argues you just tell them you have no record of their payment and add the sum to their alleged arrears.
Thus, when some old codger dies you can claim the sum off their estate, thereby depriving their heirs of a few thousand (in many cases) not due, or a few hundred if you had already claimed the earlier fiddles through the county or magistrates' court.
Very profitable for someone, and it would be nice to know whether it is the board of directors, some administrator(s), or the shareholders who gain.
Accountants have discovered how much more profitable it is to be incompetent than it is to be competent! It must run to millions.
Thus, when some old codger dies you can claim the sum off their estate, thereby depriving their heirs of a few thousand (in many cases) not due, or a few hundred if you had already claimed the earlier fiddles through the county or magistrates' court.
Very profitable for someone, and it would be nice to know whether it is the board of directors, some administrator(s), or the shareholders who gain.
Accountants have discovered how much more profitable it is to be incompetent than it is to be competent! It must run to millions.
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