Gazundering buyer in contact 3 months after completion asking me to pay

[Binsnet]

My buyer, who was a major PITA, has been in touch, 3 months post completion through the EA, asking for my address so they can forward a council tax bill for the (I'm assuming)18 days council tax that was under my ownership because they delayed the sale.
What would you do?

Personally I'd ignore the buyers so that they were forced to spend their time going on about it and I'd contact the council directly and ask for an up to date statement of what is owing for the time you owned the property and then pay it, if there is anything, and then continue to ignore. The fact that they gazundered or delayed you isn't relevant to you paying anything owed for your legal ownership for the property, but does give you cause to be uncommunicative and unhelpful about it imo 😄

That is no longer the case. At least in my area it isn’t.

You owe it, pay it.

You are liable to pay this so you will have to pay up.

If you owned the property for those 18 days you are liable.

The buyer needs to wind their neck in.

They need to return the bill to the council and inform them that OP is no longer resident. OP needs to contact the counckl and sort out any liability. No one needs to know any new addresses.

I once got a phone call from the coroner so I refered him to the ea who sold the house. I didn't ask for the new address as it wasn't anything to do with me.

@Binsnet ok you must pay this bill. it can be sent to your solicitor to forward on to you. you must pay it before it has charges on it because (I work in a company who serve charges, bank arrestments and wage arrestments for non payment of council tax.) the different areas and councils all talk to each other and they will root you out to make you pay.

Pay your bills would be something you need to do. And Council will find you anyway. Every time I moved I just put date of my move in, council deals with anything outstanding from before.

I have always advised the council, water rates, gas and electric of the date and meter reading on the day a house is sold. Only because I do not want to be liable for the new owner's bills.

No to the address being given, yes to paying the bill- whether they delayed or not- it's yours to pay

Councils have some sweeping powers these days, often applied by people with little experience of life and absolutely NO empathy, so the bill needs to be paid by the owner during those 18 days asap.
For others selling property, particularly if purchase of a new property happens before sale of the old one, these kinds of costs need to be explicitly understood and accepted in writing by the buyer's solicitor if the buyer's behaviour/delay creates an additional liability.
It's the sort of thing that a competent solicitor should be aware of, but like everything else, attention to detail and foreseeable issues doesn't seem terribly common these days.

You don’t need to give out your address to your buyer. Phone the Council and pay what you owe asap.