Councillors in Barnet have been failing to pay their council tax, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

North London News report: 

EIGHT Barnet councillors have been summoned to court over unpaid council tax, a BBC programme has revealed.

The revelation came following a Freedom of Information Act request by BBC Two’s Sunday Politics programme as part of an investigation screened this weekend.
Barnet Council revealed that since 2000, eight serving councillors had received a court summons for non-payment of council tax.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.