I SEE from your report, "Debt chasers face stricter rules' (LET, November 28) that, following recent changes in the law, Blackburn Council is planning to bring in the new rules for collectors who recover business rates debts and that bailiffs are to be used only in extreme circumstances.
Also, I note the council has introduced new ways of recovering council tax debts.
The finance committee was also likely to agree to write off more than £15,000 in unpaid business rates plus £120,312 council community tax.
No mention was made of uncollected rents. Perhaps that will come in a later announcement.
But once again, the debtors have won at the expense of the payers.
I wonder: can anybody join?
EDNA CARR (Mrs), Redvers Road, Darwen.
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