| Comment | If you miss one payment in a financial year, you get a warning letter.
If you miss a second payment in the same year, you lose the right to pay in instalments and they demand the balance due for the rest of the year up-front.
If you don't pay it, they get a summay warrant from the sheriff court. You don't go to court to challenge it, and you don't even know it's happening. The court just hand it over to the council no questions asked. This increases the outstanding balance by 10%, so if you don't have a summary warrant against you yet, contact the council and try and sort it before it happens.
After this, they hand it over to Scott&Co or Walker Love who will send you demand letters. You **can** contact them and arrange to pay by instalments, and it's one of the better things to do in this scenario. People make mistakes, sometimes money is short, and if you contact them and explain things they're surprisingly reasonable. They only get nasty if you ignore their letters or mess them about.
If you do that, they'll either come and chap on your door, or they'll go to your employer and get your wages arrested. That's incredibly embarrassing and you want to avoid it at all costs. |
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