ALMOST 73,000 council tax bills have had to be posted out twice to households across Barnsley due to a computer error which has cost the taxpayer more than £20,000.
Barnsley Council posted out the bills last late last week but it was soon discovered that an error had occurred and thousands had been sent out with incorrect address details. Some of the errors were minor but some were more serious and likely to mean the bills didn’t get where they were supposed to be.
Only 7,482 bills were affected, but the council said it could not easily identify each individual bill, so as a precaution 72,873 were sent out again with the correct addresses.
The figure equates to almost two-thirds of all residential households in the borough.
Resident Frank Kenyon, 74, of Standhill Crescent, New Lodge, said: “The council’s always crying poverty, they keep putting council tax bills up, but here they are throwing money away left, right and centre.
“I don’t know who’s responsible but I bet they’re on a good salary, and it’s council tax payers’ money they’re wasting, not theirs.”
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