Overview
- Calls widened on Tuesday for inquiries into the case, with Conservatives urging a police investigation and City Hall confirming its monitoring officer is assessing complaints.
- Polanski, who admitted late Monday he may not have paid the right council tax on an east London houseboat, apologised and said he has begun paying any sum found to be owed.
- The new statement conflicts with a prior Green Party line that he rented elsewhere and only stayed on the boat occasionally, intensifying questions about his past public claims.
- Government guidance says council tax applies when a boat is a person’s sole or main home, and tax lawyer Dan Neidle estimated a Band A bill of about £4,000 over three years if that test is met.
- Labour’s letter asked whether he failed to make required arrears declarations under section 106 at London Assembly meetings, while Waltham Forest council said it is taking legal advice and working with his team to establish the facts.