A candidate standing in next Thursday’s (May 4) local elections in Herefordshire has questioned whether residents need to pay council tax.

Amanda Yilmaz, standing in Hereford’s College ward as an unaffiliated independent, describes herself in election materials as “a founder member of Herefordshire Common Law” and “a leading light on the question: is council tax voluntary or compulsory?”

“The council are unable, or unwilling, to provide any proof of obligation to pay, and if elected as a councillor that is one of the first questions Amanda will be demanding an answer to,” according to her flyers, attached to lampposts in the ward.

These also claim that plans to bring in low-traffic neighbourhoods, part of the recent draft masterplan for the city, “will be in place within seven years as part of a globalist plan called UN Agenda 2030”.

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Mainstream political parties are “working for organisations like the World Economic Forum that promote bizarre concepts such as humans must merge with computers as part of a transhuman 4th industrial revolution controlled by artificial intelligence”.

“This dystopian future only happens if it gets turned into reality by your local council,” the flyers claim.

A Herefordshire Council spokesperson said: “The payment of council tax is not voluntary.

“Anybody in Herefordshire who is required to pay council tax and doesn’t do so may be taken to court by Herefordshire Council.”

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In recent years, numerous English local authorities have issued explanations of why council tax payment is not voluntary or conditional on some form of prior contractual agreement between residents and the authority, in response to widespread online claims to the contrary.

Herefordshire Council said it was also concerned about Ms Yilmaz’s apparent fly-posting, which its website describes as “the unauthorised display of advertising material – posters, leaflets and stickers –on lamp posts, railings, buildings, telephone boxes and other prominent locations, often adjacent to the highway”.

“Fly posters may face an £80 fixed penalty or court proceedings,” it warns.

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