This review is based on the Pendle Borough website...

This review is based on the Pendle Borough website and the general incompetence and misinformation of it. I am moving to a new house, and I'd like to know how to apply for council tax, but I can't without an 'Account Reference Number' which I don't have, and cannot find how to get using the information of the site. If there's one thing that the council want, it's your hard earned, government taxed income. And then standard practice is to urinate it down the drain on some hairbrained project and/or pocket it for themselves.

Anyway, I've searched high and low all over the Pendle Borough website, and even their own PDF guide documents, with links to the site and supposed relevant pages, are filled with erroneous and outdated information that leads you to a dead end. It told me to follow steps that are clearly no longer available on the site. So once again with these gravy-train highwaymen-and-women, their left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And all the while we're paying for the privilege of this farce, or at least in my case, trying to pay for it. And don't think that because I'm unable to pay it right here and now, that they won't ensure to squeeze back pay out of me at a later date, even though it's their bungling that has caused the problem in the first place.

And Lord Tony Greaves, I'd love to know what empirical evidence you have at your disposal which drew you to the conclusion that vacant housing "....causes an increase in anti-social behaviour", the reason given by you to explain why there is no longer a 100% (and then subsequently revised 50%) council tax rebate for houses vacant for six months, since revised again and now currently a mere 100% rebate for 28 days of vacancy. You'll fabricate and say anything to justify picking our pocket further, won't you?! You sir, are a disgrace! Get a real job and see it from working people's vantage point for a change.