A retired Reverend is seeking clarification on how court costs are calculated for those prosecuted for non-payment of council tax.

Rev Paul Nicolson will have a meeting with Haringey Borough Council’s independent auditors Grant Thornton on Friday.

At the meeting he will ask Grant Thornton if they are satisfied that the council does actually incur £125 costs when it obtains a liability order and takes those on benefit to court for non-payment of council tax and that this cost is reasonable.

The meeting comes after the clergyman won a high court legal challenge to the £125 he was fined for non-payment on the grounds that it could not be established how that figure was arrived at.

The 82 year-old of Campbell Road, Tottenham, refused to pay his council tax in 2013 in protest at the caps on council tax benefit. 

The case at the High Court and the subsequent review are the latest stages in his fight.

Rev Nicolson said: “The poorest residents of Haringey are caught between the cuts of central government and the taxation of local government.

“The state creates unmanageable debt; then makes people sick with draconian enforcement"

Last week the Reverend wrote a letter to all 650 MPs in the United Kingdom urging them to demand an inquiry into the health impact of austerity on the poor.

Haringey Borough Council has been approached for comment.