Tax issues post repatriation

Need some real help, please.  We repatriated in May and now (Nov) have received our English post (forwarded to our US address) and have many intensely threatening letters from the council regarding unpaid council tax.

I don't know the best way to ask my questions but here they are:

- Why would a council try to obtain council tax from person no longer 1. residing in county and 2. residing in the country?

- Is there some kind of process for this?  A form to fill out indicating date we left the country?  We did let the council know we were relocating outside the UK, but here we are with letters threatening to seize assets, etc.

Thanks in advance for help.

I've asked our council, and they said to just call a month before moving..  hope we don't get the same trouble.

Yeah, I hope you do not receive the same problem either!!   I mentioned this in another post, but BG continued to bill us for electric and gas even after we relocated, and gave them the final readings.  I mean, what more can a person do except follow the instructions from the utilities provider?

I don't understand why the council would threaten us over council tax after we repatriated, as the new owners are paying the appropriate council tax for the home.    Frustrating.  And the letters are frightening...reminds me of the tv tax letters, saying they would do all sorts of nefarious acts to determine if we indeed had a telly.

This may be the appropriate form:

http://www.southbucks.gov.uk/documents/council_tax_change_of_circumstances_form.pdf

Because we were tenants in the home, we assumed the owners would complete the appropriate forms, paperwork upon our vacancy of the property.  And like I mentioned, the current owners are paying the council tax upon our leaving the home, I should think the council would not double charge for a single address?

Have you phoned them? That's the first thing I'd do. If you notified them you left then they clearly have the wrong end of the stick.

I agree..phone them.  It's probably just a mistake. 

We got council tax bills addressed to my late father-in-law more than a year after he died although the council knew he no longer lived (anywhere) let alone in the flat that was not rented anymore after his death!

This sounds like a standard computer generated notice so just call them up...

we will contact them, of course, but not sre this is a standard computerised letter we've received.  Letters, actually.  They have already taken us to court (we didn't know) and thus, we missed our court date and now our assets are worthing of seizing, according to the letters.  It's all in the first person, one individual from the council threatening intensely in these letters.  Sounds like he may have a warrant at this point.

If we get to have such a problem, I'll pass it to our legal dept.  Do you have such a thing?

Otherwise, almost every letter we get from our council is ugly, and that's if I'm a few days late with the payment.  'Ugly' seems to be the standard communication method here... I wouldn't worry too much.  Some council keeps threatening to send one of our neighbors to jail for back tax on an address he's never lived at.  You can call up the person responsible for these letters directly, now you have a name, so that's good.

What a pain!