How we recover unpaid Council Tax

Make deductions from your wages, salary or welfare benefits, bailiff action, other recovery actions.

Council Tax recovery policy

This policy outlines the full process and options available to us to recover unpaid Council Tax debt, including:

  • taking deductions from your salary or wages
  • taking deductions from your welfare benefit
  • passing on your debt to a bailiff
  • securing the debt against a property that you own
  • starting insolvency proceedings against you
  • apply for a warrant for your arrest

Download our Council Tax recovery policy for more information.

Council Tax recovery policy (PDF, 94.28 KB)