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The amount owed has doubled in six years as 1.3 million households have stopped paying.

More than 1.3 million households are no longer paying council tax as local authorities fail to collect a record £6 billion a year, a report has found. The amount of tax owed to councils has doubled in six years as debt piles up among the country’s poorest residents. The debt now represents almost a sixth of total income from the charge. Councils resorted to bailiffs to collect debt 2.5 million times last year, up by almost a fifth in five years.
Failing to pay council tax is a civil offence but people can still be sent to prison for up to three months for consistently falling behind. A report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank said that “recent economic shocks like the pandemic and cost of living crisis … has led to a surge in the debt owed by vulnerable households”. The amount owed by an average household has more than doubled in the past ten years, from £756 to £1,726, and particularly hits the poorest residents.

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