Property News · August 2, 2016

The arithmetic of the powerful that makes poor people ill | Letter from the Rev Paul Nicolson


I have been summoned to Tottenham magistrates court on Thursday 4 August because I am refusing to pay my council tax to the London borough of Haringey. I am fighting against state-imposed ill heath. When Grant Thornton, Haringey’s accountants, audited the £125 costs added – more than 20,000 times – to council tax arrears by Tottenham magistrates in 2013/14, they refused to consider the impact of poverty on the health of Haringey residents. Related: Refusenik rev: the vicar ​whose council tax protest could put him in jail Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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