HOUSEWIFE Kerry McElderry has received a poll tax demand - more than ten years after the controversial charge was scrapped.
The 31-year-old mother-of-two got the bill for £343.31, stating she still owed North Tyneside Council cash from April 1990 - and the authority threatened to send the bailiffs in if she does not pay up.
She moved into her council flat in Longbenton, aged 18.
She said: "I'm not happy. I don't want to pay it, but I don't like these letters saying they'll take things from my home.
"You would have thought they'd have sent a letter back then saying I owed money. They said it had just come to their attention now."
The controversial poll tax, introduced by Margaret Thatcher, sparked huge riots in the spring of 1990.
North Tyneside Council has recently made extra staff available to recover outstanding poll tax debts.
A spokeswoman said the authority could not comment on Mrs McElderry's case.
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