Why can I not pay my monthly Council Tax instalments at the end of the month?
The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 state the Council Tax shall be payable by 10 monthly instalments from April to January and that those instalments will be due on 1st of each month. The due dates and amounts due are clearly shown on your Council Tax bill. If you alter the amount or date you pay you are not paying in accordance with how the laws states you should pay your Council Tax and therefore you run the risk of being sent Reminder Notices and a summons which will involve costs of upto £98 payable by you. Although we appreciate that it may be more convenient for some customers to pay towards the end of each month rather than at the beginning the Council has to budget in much the same way as any typical family household only on a much larger scale. Since the law states that your instalments should be paid on the 1st of each month the Council budgets on the expectation that the amounts will be paid on time. If a large number of Taxpayers delayed paying
