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Many councils across the UK not only invest their Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) in arms manufacturers and companies which invest in illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, they also pay their taxes via PAYE and NI to the Consolidated Fund which sends 6.4% to the MoD’s war chest and uses a further 11.7% to pay the interest on the national debt (£116BN) on loans of money created from thin air.
Both the HMRC and Councils have been advised their actions are in breach of international and domestic law. To avoid complicity, withhold your taxes in a trust for the government until they can show none of the taxes will be used to fund criminal endeavours.
To Start the Process
Step 1: Create a private trust for your house/assets. Put your house & assets into this trust. This is a different trust, one solely to protect your assets.
Step 2: Complete the appropriate conditional revocable trust document. You/your accountant/lawyer/friend/family member can be the Trustee. Get the conditional, revocable trust witnessed by two non-family members. Send the signed and witnessed copy with a cover letter (guide letters available on this site) to the Council or His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (whichever is applicable) via recorded delivery.
Step 3: Keep the taxes designated for the government (HMRC is the Primary Beneficiary) in a separate trust bank account or in silver/gold or in a lockbox with the trust documents. This money now belongs to the government. This money cannot be touched by the trustee or settlor.
Step 4: At the end of the financial year, send His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs the End of Year Letter giving them a chance to prove none of the monies will go towards the funding wars of aggression, genocide or any criminal purpose and that they have met the conditions in your Trust. If they fail to meet these conditions, the money can either be held in the account for the following tax year or released to the Secondary Beneficiary named in the conditional, revocable trust.
Individual Trust Deed
Year One: Letter 1 to all Tax Collectors
Promissory Note Example
At the end of the financial year, send the recession letter or revocation of trust to the councillors recorded delivery. If the council has failed to meet your conditions, then the money can go to the secondary beneficiary.
Letter Template 2 to all Tax Collectors
Notice of Revocation of Trust
Useful INFO when dealing with Councils, Enforcers and HMRC
- 1. The Recognition of Trusts Act 1987 binds the Crown and all Crown Servants.
- 2. Civil servants are Creatures of Statute and must follow Legislation
- 3. Attorney General Lord Hermer KC, stated on October 24 2024: ‘International law is not simply some kind of optional add-on with which States can pick or choose whether to comply‘.
- 4. The Laws of equity prevail in disputes where strict application of common law would lead to unfairness or injustice.
- 5. His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has publicly prioritized five (5) strategic objectives, the third of which is: ‘Maintain taxpayers’ consent through fair treatment and protect society from harm.’
- 6. To willfully ignore the Trust could be considered mala-fides.
- 7. The UK Government and its Agents (including but not limited to HMRC and its Commissioners & Agents & Local Authorities and their agents) must abide by International and Domestic Law.
- 8. The UK Government and its Agents (including but not limited to HMRC and its Commissioners & Agents and Local Authorities) can be held individually liable when/if they knowingly and/or willfully breach International and/or Domestic Law.
- 9. The UK Government and its Agents (including but not limited to HMRC and its Commissioners & Agents and Local Authorities) can remedy their actions and choose not be held criminally liable.
- The Incurably Bad Liability Order
- Please take notice that a ‘liability order’ is specified under statute and case law not to be considered as a “judgement debt” and the liability order “is not to be treated as a sum adjudged to be paid by order of the court”.
- This is further specified in The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 regulation 35 subsection (3) states that a liability order “is not to be treated as a sum adjudged to be paid by order of the court”.
- The Local Authorities will quote the Local Finance Act 1992 but are using secondary legislation The Council Tax (Administration & Enforcement) Regulations to enforce a ‘debt’ when they know full well this does not give them the power of the court.
- BAILIFFS
No legislation permits bailiffs to use a “locksmith” or break entry to homes to recover unpaid debts. Bailiffs may only use a locksmith to enter a ‘demised property’ subject to a Possession Order.
The term “locksmith” is a bailiffs trade association (in this case, from a CIVEA members newsletter article in 2014) interpretation to “enter by reasonable force”. However, this requires separate court permission and is rarely given. Instances of bailiffs illegally breaking into homes in the past have not only breached enforcement regulations but also resulted in months of litigation, which renders breaking and entering commercially nonviable for bailiff companies trading in court fine enforcement.
MORE ACTIONS
- You can also send the DEED below to the CEO of your Council, asking that the Council sets aside taxes from employees PAYE/NI – taxes which are also going direct to the Consolidated Fund. Remind them that the collecting and paying of taxes which go on to fund illegal wars, genocide and crimes against humanity is in breach of international & domestic law.
- Write to the Chair of the LGPS Committee letting them know their pensions are invested in companies benefiting from illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories of Palestine and/or arms manufacturers. Check if your council is complicit here: https://lgpsdivest.org/lgps-investments/
Letter for Council CEO - withhold taxes
Corporate Trust Deed
Letter to the Chair & Pension Committee of LGPS
You can also take the councils to court for the unlawful collection of taxes to fund wars.
Communication before Pre-Action Protocol
Pre-Action Protocol
The Council Tax Handbook may not be exciting bedside reading – but it’s full of useful nuggets.
Council Tax Handbook 13
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
Leighton vs. Bristow & Sutor
Note on council tax Liability Orders:
In the case of Leighton v Bristow & Sutor 2023. The council instructed debt collectors to act without providing them with a valid authority in the shape of a court order, rendering the debt collectors impotent. On 21st September, the High Court in KBD Swansea ruled in favour of Mr. Leighton, awarding him £4,000 against debt collectors Bristow & Sutor, who were acting in conjunction with the City of York Council. The case exposed an unlawful Council Tax debt collection process for which Mr. Leighton was entitled to damages.
This is now case law.
Leighton vs. Bristow & Sutor
Powys v Hurst
Friday 8th October 2010, John Hurst, a former police officer with an impressive record, decided not to pay his council tax after concluding – based on thorough research – that councils have no legal right whatsoever to levy such a tax on its citizens.
None payment of council tax is not a crime. Yet in the past, councils have used ‘culpable neglect’ & ‘wilful refusal’ (these should only apply to child maintenance cases held in family courts) to hand down jail sentences of 1-3 months – the maximum. Such actions are rare and are now being looked into. Councils also issue Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEO) and Charging Orders, both of which are based on void orders with no judicial value in regard to enforcement such as is the council-generated summons and council generated liability orders.
The summons must be issued by a Justice of the Peace or legal adviser with delegated powers from a justices’ clerk. However, the councils administer these in bulk, meaning that no JP or legal adviser gives his or her mind to individual cases as required by HMCTS, so the summons is null/void from the start.
The councils use the Council Tax (Administration & Enforcement) Regulations 1992 to issue liability orders which were shown to be unenforceable by bailiffs or enforcement agents following the Leighton v Bristow & Sutor court case. This hasn’t stopped the council issuing equally unenforceable Attachment of Earnings Orders and Charging Orders based on these void orders. As clearly stated in the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980 ‘The amount in respect of which a Liability Order is made….is not to be treated as a sum adjudged to be paid by order of the court’.
An Attachment of Earnings Order (AEO) must be applied for in the High Court using form N337 ‘Request for an Attachment of Earnings Order’. The AEO by the council has no judicial value and employers should avail themselves of both the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 and the Employment Rights Act 1996.
The Employment Rights Act 1996 requires a ‘statutory provision’ (the provision of an Act or an instrument made under an Act) and permission from the employee for deductions to be made from his/her wages. Acts supersede Council Tax (Administration & Enforcement) Regulations.
Attachment of Earnings Orders should be issued by the High Court according to the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971.
So if your employer attempts to become an enforcer for the council, remind them that their contract is with you, not the council and that the council does not have the legal jurisdiction to issue an attachment of earnings order. The council-generated AEO is therefore null and void.
