This one really annoys me. Council Tax, i am not going in to giving names or addresses out. But this is a typical, true to life story. A friend of mine had to sell his house because he could not keep up with the Mortgage payments. The family wanted to continue to live in the house, so it was sold to one of these Sell and rent back companies. This all went fine until the Council found out. The family had made somewhere in the region of £20,000 profit. They were getting Council Tax relief or bebefits at the time of the house sale. They did not inform the council because the money was all spoken for and only stayed in the account for One month whilst all the debts were payed. The council have now decided that the family who are no better off, apart from being out of debt, have got to pay them £400 in Council Tax because they did not tell them about the profit they made. And i know they used the profit to pay off debts. “ Well done Local Tax Office “