A quarter of a million Thames
Water customers are refusing to pay their water bills, meaning bills look
set to rise.
Simon Evans, a spokesman for Thames
Water said: “More and more of our customers are failing to pay their bills due
to the effects of the ongoing economic downturn. The current situation is
unfair on paying customers, who each pay £11 a year on their bills to cover the
shortfall left by non-paying customers.”
Thames Water certainly has an interesting
operating procedure in this area, instead of going after the customers who
don’t pay tax they leave them and instead charge the ones who are paying tax
extra to make up the difference.
Under UK law it is illegal to
cut-off someone’s water supply, but do you know what else is illegal under UK
law not paying tax, and I get the point that it would be inhumane to cut-off
someone’s water supply, but companies can already cut-off your electricity and
gas, so it’s ok in the eyes of the law for you to freeze to death in the dark!
Interestingly this story comes just
days after Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water company, claimed that it was
‘delaying’ its tax contributions after it was found to have paid no corporation
tax in the last year despite making a turnover of £1.8 billion and profits
believed to be around £550 million, so maybe that’s what the 250,000 customers
are doing following the companies example and ‘delaying’ paying their tax.
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