Concurrent Court Orders

[jswarb001]

Hi Is it correct that someone cannot have more than 2 council tax order deductions at the same time, but can have unlimited deductions for non priority AEO's?

thanks

[Missy1]

this guide may help you

http://hmctscourtfinder.justice.gov.uk/ ... book_e.pdf

[IanHolloway]

HI,

Thanks Missy1 for providing the link - are you able to find your answer from this booklet?

Kind regards,


Ian

[jswarb001]

Yes thankyou both. Only two council tax orders allowed at one time.

[TracyT]

Hi all,

I am unable to see the link above.

We have an employee, who now has 3 AOE's!

The first one is a Priority, which needs to be deducted first, for fines.

However, the other two are for Council Tax.

Can we deduct all 3?

Thanks,

[IanHolloway]

Hi,

The AEO Handbook has moved its location on the Web again and can be found now at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/attachmentordersemployers.

Your payroll software may help with prioritisation once they are all entered into the system. What you should be doing is applying them in date order, as they all have equal priority. You make the appropriate deduction under the earliest dated Order, which recalculates their attachable pay. If there is sufficient pay after the deduction has been made, you apply the next Order, which again recalculates the attachable pay. If there is enough attachable pay remaining after this, you can apply the Order with the latest date on it.

In short, if the employee has enough pay, you would be able to apply all three Orders. The problem that you would have is if all three were CTAEOs, in which case you could only take the earliest two.

Will your payroll software help in this regard?

Kind regards,


Ian

[TracyT]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the link.

Since my last post, we've input the AOE's and it is deducting all of them. (and not leaving a lot of net pay).

Thanks for the help.

Tracy