I have been contacted by Alex Adamson Sherrif officers about Council tax that i owe between 1993 and 2000. I now live in England and this is the first contact that has been made to me by them. A normal debt would be treated as Staute Barred as over 6 years(5 in Scotland) but i have been told as it is council Tax and issued in scotland with Summary warrant i can be pursued for 20 years. I am totally confused about this as most articles relate to unlimited time where others treat Council tax as any other debt. Can anyone clarify the legal position for me please.

Summary warrants were isued but I have never heard any communication in over 10 years. I have lived in England for 8 years. At this point i have not communicated with Adamson until clear my legal position.

The community group Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty today threatened “more direct action in solidarity with citizens who cannot afford the Council Tax”, in the wake of the SNP Government dropping their pledge to abolish the Tax in this parliament.

Anti Council Tax resisters beseiged Edinburgh City Chambers today 5th February after the Council barred members of the public from the public gallery during the full City of Edinburgh Council meeting. Police eventually moved in to manhandle demonstrators out of the Chambers entrance. "The Council are acting like tinpot dictators - but we wont be intimidated," say Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty.

Protestors from Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty are due to converge on the City of Edinburgh Council meeting this Thursday morning, as the latest stage in the resistance to the Council's new hard-line policy on Council Tax arrears. On 11th November the Council decided to threaten another 12,377 citizens with bankruptcy if they didn't pay off their arrears within a year.

Members of the community group Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty disrupted the Finance and Resources Committee meeting at the City Chambers on Tuesday 11th November, after the committee agreed to the second phase of the aggressive collection of council tax arrears, which the group argue is unjust. Angry protests from the public benches forced the Councillors to temporarily abandon the City of Edinburgh Council meeting.