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Wouldn't it have been safer to become an MP?
Rates the precursor to the Council Tax? Are we rubbing the poll tax out of the history books then, bystander?
The retired detective reminds me of the writ of quo minus, which (if my informant is correct) was formerly used to bring private actions in King's Bench, instead of Common Pleas. The idea being that the plaintiff, damaged by the defendant, was "thereby the less able" to pay his taxes. Hey, presto--a tax dispute!
But how ever did the RD work it? "I refuse to pay rates, m'lud, because the Government isn't spending its revenues to pressure the Saudis into prosecuting my daughter's murderer"? Even Henry David Thoreau, the well-known tax evader, would have emitted a low whistle of astonishment.
Incidentally, fascinating discussion the other day under "Last Word." I view this site as being here for my private edification and amusement, and y'all are doing a bang-up job.
Well that's one way of getting your voice heard I suppose... I assume he paid his council taxes once he'd managed to puplicise his suspicions?
NQH
Frederick Forsyth used this as a plot device in a short story, 'Priviledge', published in 1982.
"Are we rubbing the poll tax out of the history books then, bystander?"
The poll tax was not a property tax. Property taxes were not levied while the poll tax was in operation. When thr Rates were re-introduced after the unfortunate demise of the Poll Tax, they were given a new name.
"The poll tax was not a property tax"
Tell that to the council who pursued me for three payments for the same period at three different properties (one of which was an office building, not a residence).
Actually, I did tell them that, and they advised me to pay all three and then claim back two. Yes, that was likely. I reckoned that I might as well be hung for not paying three as for not paying two, and told them to pick one or go to hell. As far as I know, they went to hell, although I don't doubt that it's still sitting on a file somewhere just waiting to be unearthed should I ever bid for a political career.
I really don't blame him. Ok it may have been a deliberate waste of the courts time, but his daughter had been murdered. You can't help but have some sympathy that he had to go to such lengths. The Saudi authorities are well known for their archaic practices. Can't buy an air ticket home? Get pregnant whilst unmarried, they'll 'assist you'.
Its similar to what I did. You cant publicise family court matters out side of the court. However, if you are found in contempt, for whatever reason, within a family court, then the charge of contempt is a criminal matter and you can then air your grievance in an open court.
Doesn't half cause a lot of pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth in the DCA, but it help save my pension fund from being raided.
Ah yes, the Saudi death nurse story, I'll not use her real name as the learned friend hasn't but I'm from the same city as she came from and its been in and around the news ever since.
Two years ago it was reported in the local press that the nurses remains were still in our city infirmary mortuary, 25 years after the incident, purely and simply because her father refuses to accept the body and arrange a funeral for her until the government inquires into the sad affair.
The official explanation is that she fell from a balcony whilst (shall we say) in the throes of passion with a dutch doctor who also died in the fall - her father refuses to accept the story.
A police officer friend of mine at the time mentioned that the father was "obsessed" with clearing his daughters name and proving foul play - it appears that the obsession continues.
A very sad case.
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