Council tax arrears

Council Tax Resisters Besiege Council

February 5, 2009 admin5

Anti Council Tax resisters besieged Edinburgh City Chambers today 5th February after the Council barred members of the public from the public gallery during the full City of Edinburgh Council meeting. Police eventually moved in to manhandle demonstrators out of the Chambers entrance. “The Council are acting like tinpot dictators – but we wont be intimidated,” say…Read moreRead more

RESIST THE UNFAIR COUNCIL TAX! Demonstrate at the Council Meeting on 5th February WE STOP THE SHERIFF!

January 22, 2009 admin5

Resist the unfair Council policy of threatening thousands of people in arrears with sequestration! Demonstrate at the council meeting 9.30am Thursday 5th Feb 2009 City of Edinburgh Council meeting, City chambers, High St, Edinburgh Organised by Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty The Council Tax is widely recognised as being unfair, disproportionately hitting those on low and…Read moreRead more

Edinburgh City Finance Committee Disrupted

November 13, 2008 admin5

Members of Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty disrupted the Finance and Resources Committee meeting at the City Chambers on Tuesday 11th November, after the committee agreed to the second phase of the aggressive collection of council tax arrears, which the group argue is unjust. Angry protests from the public benches forced the Councillors to temporarily abandon…Read moreRead more

Councillor Mackenzie Surprised by anti-Council Tax Campaigners

October 22, 2008 admin5

50 members of the community group Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty surprised City finance leader Gordon Mackenzie at his surgery yesterday evening, demanding that he stop persecuting low income people struggling to pay their council tax. ECAP presented Mackenzie, the architect of the new aggressive and immoral council tax arrears recovery,  with a large mock ‘final…Read moreRead more