Question follow-through · 31467
Council Tax: Debt Collection
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the level of reasonable costs that local authorities can recover when issuing a liability order for council tax arrears.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the level of reasonable costs that local authorities can recover when issuing a liability order for council tax arrears.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
Councils are responsible for the collection and enforcement of council tax, and it is for them to assess the reasonable costs incurred in issuing a liability order. This is an important matter which the government continues to keep under review. The gover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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