Council Tax

A graphic of a crossed-out hand knocking at a door with the text: boot out bailiffs

Reports

Revealed: More than 2,000 council tax debts sent to bailiffs despite ‘ethical approach’ promise

New data uncovered by the Cable throws into doubt Bristol City Council’s commitment to only use enforcement agents when people can pay but won’t.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

Four years on from booting out bailiffs, is Bristol’s ‘ethical’ council tax debt collection working?

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Boot Out Bailiffs

Charities call on councils nationwide to follow Bristol on bailiffs

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Boot Out Bailiffs

Opinion: Our mayor has an open goal opportunity to help thousands. Will he take it?

There is a strong moral and financial case to drop the medieval practice of enforcing debts with hired heavies.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Voices

“He said that he was nearby, and was going to come over and take my things”

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Boot Out Bailiffs

Ministry of Justice announces crackdown on ‘rogue bailiffs’

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Boot Out Bailiffs

Revealed: Tory financiers are cashing in on the bailiffs used by the council

The bailiff firm most used by Bristol City Council to collect council tax debts is part-owned by a firm of financiers closely linked to - and major donors of - the Tory party, the Cable can reveal.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Boot Out Bailiffs

We’re launching a campaign to stop the council setting bailiffs on Bristolians. Here’s why.

Using muscle to collect debts is as old as money itself. But the Mayor and Bristol City Council must use fairer and more effective ways. It's time to #bootoutbailiffs.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Boot Out Bailiffs

The council have set bailiffs on tens of thousands of Bristolians. But there is another way.

This investigation is part of a Bristol Cable campaign calling on the council to stop using bailiffs to collect council tax.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Voices

Opinion: We need to fight council tax plans that hit poorest hardest

The short sighted and damaging plans need to be dropped and another way found, argues Anny Cullum an organiser for ACORN.

Anny Cullum