A comedian says government officials have been hounding her over a £10,000 council tax bill she actually doesn’t owe.

During a July 2025 episode of her Telling Everybody Everything, Katherine Ryan spoke about how she was paying the council tax bill for the tenants of a London flat she owns. She has been renting out the loft since October 2023.

Katherine explained that she paid the bill voluntarily as a gesture of goodwill for the loft renters. However, the comedian was shocked to find out that the Haringey Council believed she still lived in the flat and classed the property as a second home, and hiked her council tax bill by 200%

“We pay the council tax because we want to make it seamless for everyone,” she explained on the podcast. “But we don’t live there.”

The comedian attempted to

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