WINVISIBLE [mailto:win@winvisible.org]
Sent: 02 February 2013 10:57
Subject: Tues 5 Feb: demo to support legal challenge to Haringey cutting
Council Tax Benefit
Dear Friends,
Demonstrate with us to support a legal challenge to Haringey Council cutting
Council Tax Benefit
Royal Courts of Justice (High Court), Strand London WC2A 2LL
Tuesday 5 February 9.45am – 11am
10.30am: some people will go into court
Please come and support this important legal challenge to stop the Council
charging Council Tax to people on benefit – see email below from Rev Paul
Nicolson, Taxpayers Against Poverty.
Alex Rook, specialist lawyer at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, who is
representing local residents in Haringey, said: “Our client is a single
mother and she is simply not going to be able to make these payments.”
Residents in other boroughs are also hoping to join the legal challenges.
Did you know:
– Nationally, those who will be most disadvantaged by this change
are in waged work, including single parents (92% mothers)
who work part-time and those of us on minimum wage who depend on childcare.
We will face a hike of up to £577 a year in Council Tax.
– Some Councils, such as Tory-led Kensington and Chelsea, have
decided to keep the 100% Council Tax Benefit, and instead charge 2nd-home
owners to make up the gap in government funding, see
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21276091
– Families with young children, sick and disabled people, young
unemployed people, other vulnerable groups should rightly be protected —
but some Councils, such as Camden, have decided to charge Council Tax
contributions from everyone of working age regardless of their circumstances.
– More national info
https://www.channel4.com/news/council-tax-benefit-cuts-the-key-questions
– More about the Haringey challenge
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/21/council-tax-blow-people-benefits
Winning this challenge will set a precedent against all Councils planning to
cut Council Tax Benefit
See you there!
WINVISIBLE
PS: We have been working with the mother of Daniel Roque Hall – a severely
disabled man who was nearly killed by Wormwood Scrubs prison’s neglect. The
High Court is hearing his appeal on Tuesday so there will be a second
demonstration outside the court. A number of us will be involved in both.
See separate email.
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why are poor people having to suffer this,revolution is needed,stick together,and show this tory shit,what we think of them
Can we not just start a revolution? This shit wouldnt happen in France! Hang them all from tower bridge, tory scumbags
its to keep the rich rich as they wont pay anymore on their monies so taxes on the poor just so that they can keep thier banks full yable full while the rest will starve so that they can yep a very dodgy tax on those who cant afford it another tory tax 1percent are the rich 99percent are the poor ones its unbeleavible that they can and do get away with it jeff3
This inhumane government must stop persecuting the poorest and most vulnerable.
I won’t be able to attend but definitely with you in spirit for BOTH campaigns. Good luck! 🙂 xx
Legally the Courts ensure that Council Tax is viewed as an ‘essential tax’
This means once you have got a CTAX bill you dont pay & get a LIABILITY ORDER by DEFAULTit is bloody hard to get rid of – I should know I am currently challenging LO thru the courts.
Unless This INJUST decision by LA is stopped in its tracks it opens door to BALIFFS/BANKRUPTCY/JAIL for the POOR a bit like DEBTORS PRISON.
NASTY!
GOOD LUCK TO ALL.