Garden waste bills may never be paid (From The Oxford Times)
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Garden waste bills may never be paid
1:20pm Saturday 21st January 2012 in Wantage
VALE of White Horse District Council may never recover thousands of pounds of unpaid bills for the use of its garden waste service, a scrutiny committee has been told.
An examination of the service last year found thousands of errors in the system, including direct debit bills rejected, invoices not raised for years and errors in records of service users’ addresses.
Since March, the council has been chasing £106,000 of unpaid bills, and has so far recovered £56,000.
But a report to be presented to councillors on Thursday warns: “We may not be able to recover all the money owed if some customers refuse to pay.”
Comments(4)
redstone
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2:49pm Sat 21 Jan 12
Merlin22
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12:50pm Mon 23 Jan 12
hesperus
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1:47pm Mon 23 Jan 12
Dilligaf2010 says...
2:25pm Sat 21 Jan 12
The outstanding amount should just be written off, doing that will probably cost less than trying to reclaim it anyway.