IS THE BID TAX/LEVY LEGAL? This is a reply to an email received from an Edinburgh businessman who is also fighting/refusing to pay the BID levy. He has now engaged legal advice (LargsBIDblogspot): "..Thank you for your e-mail. I have saved copies as this will also prove helpful for us. We have just sent appeal letters to North Ayrshire Council refusing to pay the levy as it is `improperly charged`. As the only BID area (no.17) to have managed to lodge an appeal within the 28 days following the BID ballot, we have completed a 10 month battle taking the denial of our calls for a re-ballot finally to the Ombudsman (twice). To no avail, although I received a card with a new reference number yesterday from the S.P S.O., following my final letter to them ( see that letter on my blog largsbid.blogspot.co.uk ) Since we have exhausted the appeals process with Scottish Ministers aka Derek MacKay MSP, we decided to use social media to expose BID, and so we have set up BID BEGONE on Facebook. So glad to have linked up with you and with BID FAREWELL, and hope to involve other areas who have also suffered this abuse of democracy. I am angry when media debate about the deterioration of High Street businesses etc never mentions " the elephant in the room" ie BID - what a misnomer this Business Improvement District. We are entitled to democratic debate and a fair, free vote for all. I will not accept that BID is allowed to operate under the radar, and rig ballots to get a "yes" result..."
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:46:45 +0000
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