Audit Commission:
It is not clear where or in what context you say auditors have claimed to be checking
claims for single person discount.
Me:
Well now I have your secret guidelines, I can say that the context in which auditors have made that claim is in your hitherto secret Audit Guidelines, where it says this: This match addresses where the householder is claiming a council tax single person discount on the basis that they live alone yet the electoral register suggests that there is more than one person in the household aged 18 or over.
Audit Commission
To date, the Commission’s data matching exercises have only included those individuals
that an authority believes are entitled to the discount on the first basis, i.e. they are the
sole occupant of a property.
Me: If the authority is competent and law abiding, this is not true. This may be true in some cases, and the authorities in question (including Hillingdon, for example) may have believed this, but if so then the authorities were not administering the discount correctly, and they failed to obey the law as later spelled out to the NFI by Leah Griffiths. People have been subjected to criticism and what is basically defamatory comment by the NFI because it failed to grasp the basics of council tax discount law.
