‘It keeps you up at night’: More than three million taken to court unable to pay their council tax

2 years ago

More than three million people have been taken to court for council tax debt in some of the poorest parts of the country in the past two years, i can reveal. Since Covid, magistrates courts across England have handed out the equivalent of more than 4,500 debt orders a day in what campaigners say is the latest illustration of the scale of the cost-of-living crisis. Figures obtained via Freedom of Information requests show there has been a rise in local authorities taking legal action against people who haven’t paid their bills as coronavirus restrictions ended and inflation began to soar.

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