Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01546 · Session 4

Collect Poll Tax Arrears

Closed Submitted 14 Nov 2014 Parliament & Constitution
Signatures
0
15 online signatures with a country
Comments
5
Considered
1 meeting
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure councils have the ability to collect arrears of outstanding "Poll Tax" and not to create legislation to write off these debts.
I call on the Scottish Government to ensure laws are in place to allow councils to be able carry out retrieval of these debts from individuals and companies.

What the petitioner did first

I have written to my local MSP (Bruce Crawford) who stated that he supported the Government that he is part of and would not support me as he disagreed with the Poll Tax in principle.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 27 Jan 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petition
    1 mention

Signatures by country

15 online signatures
  1. Scotland12 80%
  2. United Kingdom3 20%

Comments

5 comments, oldest first
  1. peter patrick glancy campbell 5 Dec 2014
    i am a war pensioner with council arrears of 1000£ my wife in care home, now trying buy second hand mobility car for her. the DWP say we do not qualify for mobility benefit
  2. Kenneth Bick 16 Dec 2014
    I could not agree more with the aims of this petition. If the SNP are so hard done by with the allocation of funds by Westminster, how can they afford this?
  3. William Smith 19 Dec 2014
    It is a bad day when our law makers allow law breakers to get away with non payment. You have lost my vote.
  4. Iain McKinnon 5 Jan 2015
    I believe that in those straitened times, it behoves all local authorities to ensure that all unpaid Poll and Council taxes are collected. There are three prime reasons I believe for this...1) The tax avoider will have already benefited from the local authority services provided. 2) It is equitable as other residents will have already paid. 3) It is part of being a responsible member of the community. And if you want the right to vote, then surely part of that privilege is paying your just dues.
  5. Kirsty Clark 5 Jan 2015
    I whole heartedly agree that under NO circumstances should the outstanding poll tax debt be written off
    - if it should be it is nothing but a big fat slap in the face to hard working, law abiding citizens. Should they write off the poll tax debt do they plan on reimbursing (in full) the people that actually paid this?!