Now that’s not funny …
I don’t know if you know it, but here in the UK, we’ve a tax called the Council Tax.
It’s a tax on every property in the UK: and is due to your local council.
My first payment’s due, today.
And, as yet?
I’ve not received the payment card that means I can pay it at any given PayPoint outlet.
I can pay it a couple of ways: I can use direct debit. Or I can pay at my bank.
You’d THINK I’d be able to walk into my local council offices — just as far away from me as my bank — and pay cash, wouldn’t you?
You’d think I’d be able to walk into my local council, pay them the tax I owe, in cash … and then walk off to do everything else.
Wrong. They don’t have the facilities.
They can’t afford them!
Whilst there’s other options, I’d, personally, prefer to pay cash at the council’s offices.
There’s bound to be others who like that: or pensioners who can’t get the hang of online payments, or people with no way of paying by direct debit.
And other who don’t — yet — have a payment card.
None of us can pay the council, the council tax we owe it … at the council.
Somewhere out there, someone thinks that funny.
I’m not one of them!
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