Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

I live in London and pay my council tax. I don't recieve millions from cryptofascists. My perspective does not have to be very broad to encompass both.

Not everyone who lives on a boat has to pay council tax. I pay the CRT for a continuous cruising licence instead. The fact that this isn’t mentioned anywhere in this thread makes it seem very much like the latest attempt to attack Zack Polanski.

It's not a big problem. He owes council tax. That is all. It's not like he was gifted £5m and didn't declare it.

People are going to be annoyed today that a story about Polanski messing up his council tax or his vote registration due to a narrowboat he called home is going to get coverage despite Farage receiving and not declaring £5 million from a dodgy crypto donor being a bigger story. It's how news works.

Polanski has some serious, potentially criminal, questions to answer here. #CouncilTax

Obviously I don’t know this actual case, but I lived on a boat and there was a difference between permanent moorings, where you have an address & pay council tax and leisure moorings where you can’t live permanently anyway. As far as I know all the Lea Valley moorings are leisure moorings?

Adds 'Not entirely sure Southwark ever fully sorted out the council tax situation for the three years I lived on a houseboat there at the turn of the century' to list of reasons I should never run for public office. (Didn't stop Southwark employing me a few year's later, tbf)

I can’t afford a house either so I have to rent one. And pay Council Tax.

Seriously the press attacking Polanski about him possibly living on a narrowboat and missing a few council tax payments. I defend any leader from unfair attacks by the press, they choose to ignore £5m corrupt payments to Farage and his misinformation re a house in Clacton. bsky.app/profile/brem...

Dan doesn't say none was paid. He says that the houseboat wasn't registered for Council Tax. By implication none was paid at that address. However if he had another residence in the borough council tax may have been paid there.

Just wait for the Brexit-like cries when their council tax goes up by 10% or their social care is slashed - cue “I didn’t vote for this”. But there’s money for £600k parking spaces for their councillors 🙄.

Like, pay your council tax. Pay your capital gains tax. Pay your corporation tax. Pay your stamp duty. Declare donations you've accepted. Refuse donations which could look dodgy even if they're "technically within the rules". Just fucking do what most of us plebs do and follow the fucking rules?

Apparently you can avoid liability for Council Tax by "continuous cruising"... canalrivertrust.org.uk/boating/lice...

Three years of council tax is probably going to amount to about £5k. Clearly Polanski's residential status was a bit complicated and easy to fudge (with or without intent). Is this a big issue? I mean, right-wing press will make it so. But it's small beer, really, isn't it?