payslip query?

[morleyposty]

on my weekly payslip

'year to date' section

it says: assessable pay
tax paid
council tax

why is 'council tax' on the slip?

[Pat Ostman]

I think it could be to do with something like attachment of earnings.

Still, no idea why its on every pay slip.

[celerycelery]

Its there like you say for an attachment of earnings payment. If you dont pay your council tax and end up in court and are forced to pay a certain amount they can deduct it straight from your wages. Suppose council tax is probably the most popular non payment amoungst us lot so has a box all of its own in case its needed.

[smokerjim]

If you fail to pay council tax ( assuming you are supposed to do so ), then the council can apply to RM to have it direct from your wages before you even see it - effectively they can "garnish" your wages!

[baldrick]

It can be useful if council tax is deducted from your wages to have proof,
because council's can claim you haven't paid it (because of their own bureaucratic
failings) and threaten you with bailiffs.

[Stormproof]

I paid my council tax through an AOE(Attachment of Earnings) as I was really naughty and missed a month so the council applied for the AOE, i finished paying a week before xmas so no council tax to pay until April now BTW RM charge a £1 admin fee every week for it aswell

[baldrick]

I had an Attachment of Earnings Order for my poll tax. I had refused to pay it on principle due to
it's unfairness. Over three years later the Council claimed that one payment was unpaid and threatened
me with bailiffs. They refused to accept my wageslips as evidence that it had been paid, and said that
I had to prove that RM had paid the money to them. in the meantime wages had been transferred from
local wage depts to a regional wages centre, and then to Sheffield, and nobody in RM seemed to be able
to find the records which were apparently in a basement somewhere.
Eventually RM agreed to make the payment to the Council again.
I made a complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman against the Council for maladministration -
if they thought that RM had not made the payment to them they should have pursued RM, not me.
The Ombudsman upheld my complaint of maladministration and ordered the Council to pay me £300 in compensation.

[Pat Ostman]

I paid my council tax through an AOE(Attachment of Earnings) as I was really naughty and missed a month so the council applied for the AOE, i finished paying a week before xmas so no council tax to pay until April now BTW RM charge a £1 admin fee every week for it aswell

They applied for an AOE after you missed just a single month?