Council Tax Fraud Concerns

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*. The Motives Apart from the individual H.M civil servants own dishonesty, they have been encouraged and protected by those above them and a Government system that has plainly assisted and fostered the criminality, even though not intentionally one may hope. Fraud never mind the abusive methods accompanying, is designated a crime as it should be, yet the Police Service wouldn’t or couldn’t act as it was termed “civil” although very (uncivil) it was and despite evidence screaming fraud & corruption, we were then channelled to what was proven a very dishonest & covering up adjudicator. One motive that appears to stand out is the Government’s decision to cut funding to all of our councils in England and Wales as it’s well documented that many councils have been financially struggling as it was said to be a *% cut in real terms and if correct, little wonder we still have seriously potholed roads and declining services and continuous year on years rising council taxes, as those cuts from Central Government mean we will all have to pay even more Council taxes. Struggling councils could be down to inefficiencies, excessive overheads and proven poor investments of council taxpayer’s money by the councils rather than just the Government cuts, but more likely a combination of both. And I was surprised to read the our own council Chief Executive is remunerated to the tune of £*,* + expenses and pension and her team below on equally significant salaries yet ours is only the fifth highest paid. Our services may be struggling to fix potholes and other declining services with our council taxes we pay, but evidently many district and county council’s management are not struggling, but all that must have been approved by Government one must presume? *. The Opportunity Another straightforward one as our British homeowners and tenants I have referred to at times as” fish in a barrel” or maybe “ducks in a shooting gallery” and why is because they trust and assume with regard to our authorities and councils concerning their council tax, as they should be able to do. So they are extremely vulnerable to these frauds, so much so I found some households did not even know what council tax band they were, far less how much they really paid each year, and most never check, but just glance at their annual council tax which arrives in March each year. Many households are not even aware of the *-* national council tax bandings, or the * Poll tax riots before the “still current system” came in April 1st * ironically April Fool’s day and the V.O.A have made fools out of many as they and councils and the complaints path are trusted by vulnerable homeowners and tenants and out of * households asked, only one knew who the Valuation Office Agency were and what their role regarding council taxes was. As was our own district council colluding & the chief executive involved, fleeing after the second of the three rigged Tribunals after a face to face meeting was requested. The V.O.A have been taking criminal advantage of our trust in them, and there were and still are one presumes, thousands of what the anti-corruption M.P termed V.O.A “council tax snoopers” but they and their accomplices did much more than “snooping” it turned out, much to the homeowners & tenants detriment and some more than others and all was proven yet here I am now having to warn households. Circumstances and evidence surrounding these frauds and abuses? There were five households scammed in the community of Burnham Buckinghamshire over the period, or those known about, as there had been others before us in other communities as the now Sir Eric Jack Pickles a former Prime Ministers anti-corruption M.P made that clear. Three family households had improved and added to their homes and were penalised for it or rather defrauded because of it, and how many others have these un-civil servants done that to throughout England and Wales? One other who were tenants were being extorted and defrauded for just over £*,* causing much anxiety and fear as the council stuffed demands for thousands and thousands of pounds through their letterbox. Later proven they never ever owed. The V.O.A and council continued their bullying techniques upon the poor

lady. Without notification the first three had their council tax bands raised from band F to band G breaking our laws and legislations. What this means is that each family will pay approximately an extra £* to £* + a year on top of all the council tax rises everyone has experienced, and that was back in * so risen very much since then and again this year. The council tax bands given our legislation can only be lifted when the owner sells the property and it would be the new owners that may have to pay a higher band if the improvements or additions are “significant” and not what is termed by the Council Tax Manual as “in-significant”. In early March * when the years council tax notifications arrive to all of us only one of the three noticed the small grey band F on their Council Tax Notice had changed to a band G for none had been notified and unsurprising as it was illegal, breaching our laws, our legislations as well as codes of conduct. Only one of the three spotted the uplifted council tax band and the monetary increase and officially complained. One of them never even noticed for 9 months until they were told as they held down a busy job and just put the paperwork behind the toaster. The third homeowner thought the monetary increase was because they had just finished an extension and didn’t understand that they were all entitled legally to improve their homes without penalty as they were a Band F when they moved in then started and added to it after they purchased their forever home. The house was a band F when purchased with the previous owner confirming they had not added to it from April *, yet this family was given a penalty for the remainder of their lives whilst in that property remembering we had lived in ours for 47 years. Their home and others defrauded from then on attracting annual increases on the scammed amount as well as the legal and correct amount it should have been, so a scam that just keeps on giving. It soon became clear the local district council had been aiding and abetting with the V.O.A when in fact it is the district council’s legal responsibility to prevent fraud to their taxpayers, not take part in defrauding them. And it didn’t end there………… My wife and I were left alone when the three households were defrauded in late February of *. We had lived in our family home since * and had not added to our home since the national bandings of April * not that it should have mattered if we had, as we remained resident till we were forced out from these V.O.A Government frauds. But eight months later we were to be defrauded and inside our own home, even though these public servants had been barred from our homes, but we didn’t know that then as one of the three owners defrauded had laid a formal complaint as their council tax band had been surreptitiously and quietly raised, and their council tax payments increased. So the V.O.A H.M civil servants barged in 8 months later to defraud my wife & I and at the time I was in my bed recovering from a second cancer, but where fraud is concerned they didn’t care in their quest for money, so all of you reading are at risk. They needed our council band to be uplifted for the Valuation Office Agency to cover up the three neighbours they scammed. They did that and also gave a my wife and I a band A on top, back then an extra £* a month with the intent to delete that later so we would be so relieved to be left with just a band G. But it didn’t work out for them that way as it was clear something wasn’t right as we both knew the civil servant had lied * minutes after entering our home after asking a question about our next door neighbour scammed 8 months before. In short later we lost our cancer support utility in the fraud and eventually to protect ourselves, our home of 47 years as about £* extra back then in * had been added to what was our band F legal council tax band per month, but now council taxes are even higher with yearly increases given Government significantly cut councils funding and now we are all paying for that decision now. I suggest that many others in England and Wales may not even be aware they were scammed, possibly those that may have moved and the band of their new house lifted, even if no significant additions were carried out. Some like the three neighbours who had improved their homes may have had their council tax band quietly lifted and without notification. The V.O.A would not respond to any questions and will remain silent after defrauding homeowners. If one should ask a question they won’t get a response, but they may find a policeman knocking on their door in the attempt to intimidate the homeowners from asking questions, sent there by the Valuation Office Agency Reading who defrauded us all.

From there is the option of one of these Tribunals, but very few of those defrauded would attend one, mostly due to either confusion, they didn’t have the time or feared a Tribunal. For some it just may be an extra £*- £* a month so they pay it, but for many it wasn’t, as ours went up by £* + a month and another neighbour was being ruthlessly extorted and bullied for a shade over £*,* of council tax, proven later they never owed, and it was simply appalling. So even choosing a Tribunal wouldn’t help as you would be defrauded if you did, and defrauded if you didn’t choose one as they were proven to be rigged, corrupt and hand in hand with the Governments Valuation Office Agency. These so called council tax Tribunals were funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, or Central Government. What the V.O.A have been doing when the need arose, is to say a “similar” property to the defrauded persons house sold for XYZ in * or * which represents a higher band than their house, and why it’s now received a higher band, but only if the owner or resident even notices the uplifted council tax band. The V.O.A continued scamming us all from their office desks after being barred from our homes, except ours that is as they needed entry to find a way to defraud my wife and I in order for them to cover up the frauds eight months earlier. The database of sold properties was closed off to the public from * through to * and everyone was given their council tax band with a time period where one could appeal, and then it was set in stone or it was supposed to be .It’s why the Cameron Government closed the V.O.A access to the database. It would be almost impossible for a defrauded homeowner to find the said “similar” dwelling the V.O.A wrote on the defrauded homeowners rejected appeal form responses, and all throughout they were committing blatant criminal activity as fraud is legally defined as a crime as it should be. Further evidence details & methods may be found on the sworn statements provided to Government, the V.O.A, H.M.R.C and the Heads of what was found to be a most Un-Civil Service. It took many, many hours of slowly walking the local pavements investigating and understanding as I was still in some discomfort from my cancer operations and chemotherapy before I found the quote “similar property” the V.O.A were utilising against my wife and I and eight months before our next door neighbour, breaching our laws and legislations. I located it and the reason it was a band G in April * was because not only did it have a significant addition around the back, the (similar property) also had a brick built swimming pool, all constructed and added before April *, but the Valuation Office Agency never ever expected anyone would investigate or find it, as the additions could not be seen from the road as the house looked untouched and identical to the two band F identical properties located at the same time in the same road, and there was an element of luck I even found it and later found the other swindling example in the other road they had written on the failed appeal form, and yet they and others were advised, but just silence? There were two identical dwellings still band F left from that era in the named road and an elderly widow resided in each one. When the corrupt V.O.A Listing Officer realised I had found those, he threatened to uplift those two Ladies council tax bands, both defenceless and innocent widows. They also held up with the Council for over a year the council tax bands of two young families in “similar” but brand new detached properties, and they needed to be both a band F. Yet they had scammed * households from their legal band F to an illegal band G and still the covering up and corruption rolled on from the Valuation Office Agency, our own district council and Government and its Ministers responsible. A fine example of just how utterly brazen and ruthless the Valuation Office Agency had been allowed to become through looking the other way, with shameful protection and covering up from their superiors and no wonder corruption and dishonesty was thriving in that Government Agency, which may have accounted for the huge *,* backlog of business ratepayer complainants they had at one time, and we all remember I expect our struggling High Streets and businesses, many closing back then and now today due to foreign policies & risen energy costs. So irrefutable, solid evidence of unscrupulous and bullying frauds and I had to do it all whilst still in recovery from my illness and it wasn’t easy. I had never ever expected fraud from our own H.M Civil servants of the Crown, our H.M Government or our own local council either, and then the criminality that followed after that was another surprise, well