Tax disc late - £40 fine

zudecke

Hi guys,

I am 3 months late renewing my tax disc.

I received a £40 late fine.

Any leg to stand on? lol

Z

jwruk

I'm sorry, you failed to renew your tax disc and received a £40 fine and want to know if you can get out of paying?

Lum

Depending on what rate tax you pay, you may actually be making a profit, for example if you pay £210 tax then that is £17.50 per month or £52.50 for 3 months = £12.50 profit!

Lessbutbetter

I am 3 months late renewing my tax disc.

So you have to be 3 months late before they realize and send you a fine. I would have thought it would have been more like a month. That's ridiculous!

You should pay your fine, and probably count yourself lucky that it's 40 squid. Did you think you were going to simply get away with it!?

Gloomendoom

I would be very surprised if a request for payment of the unpaid tax doesn't follow pretty soon.

opinions4u

Utterly ridiculous.

They should have a minimum fine of £500 for this.

And £5,000 for driving without insurance.

Collecting the fine costs more than the amount recovered anyway.

Wireless_2

Even better, the wife traded in her C1 on June 24th, and sent off the Yellow V5C section to the DVLA, but as she'd just taken delivery of a new C3, and no longer had the C1, which remained at the dealership, and obviously ignored the Road Tax Renewal Letter for the C1 (tax due end of the July), which arrived soon afterwards, thinking the matter would resolve itself when they got the Yellow V5C section.

Next she knows about it is a £40 fine issued by the DVLA on 15th September for a car she no longer owned, and after returning to the garage she had the garage ready to back up her story that the vehicle had been with them until 12th September, when they had taxed it and sold it on to a new owner.

The only way you can inform the DVLA is to write to them, giving the garage as a reference.

The DVLA responded that because my wife couldn't produce an acknowledgement letter from the DVLA of the change of keeper, that my wife was liable for the fine of £40, and this on a vehicle with a 12 month Road Tax of less than £40.

On top of this the C3 Airdream+ she now drives is zero rated for Road Tax.

Its a licence to print money, the people (DVLA) that are supposed to provide you with the evidence to support your position are the people (DVLA) empowered to fine you.

Catch-22, my wife can't afford to take time away from work for Court anyway, and we'd lose because they hold all the cards, even though we have a Citroen Main Dealer that would swear our story is true.

So a £40 fine to us because we didn't remind them that they hadn't done their job!!!

The DVLA are !!!!!!!s.

scheming_gypsy

opinions4u wrote: »

Utterly ridiculous.

They should have a minimum fine of £500 for this.

why? does it make you more likely to kill somebody?

opinions4u

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

why? does it make you more likely to kill somebody?

Not at all.

But it's an evasion of tax and those who pay when due effectively pick up the tab for those who "forget".

Why the hell should the OP profit for this?

wealdroam

Wireless wrote: »

The DVLA responded that because my wife couldn't produce an acknowledgement letter from the DVLA of the change of keeper, that my wife was liable for the fine of £40, and this on a vehicle with a 12 month Road Tax of less than £40.

This is simply wrong.

You do not have to prove that they have recieved the notification, by producing an acknowledgement letter.

Simply posting the thing is sufficient.
You do not even need a certificate of posting, although it might be prudent to get one.


The DVLA have lost many cases like this.
Here is just one example...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/dvla_court/

Paradigm

wealdroam wrote: »

This is simply wrong.

You do not have to prove that they have recieved the notification, by producing an acknowledgement letter.

Simply posting the thing is sufficient.
You do not even need a certificate of posting, although it might be prudent to get one.

Absolutely but even though they have lost numerous times they still try to make out it's a legal obligation to contact them if no letter is received... the whole organisation is a joke.

One of the major problems has already been mentioned

my wife can't afford to take time away from work for Court anyway

To many people the expense & hassle isn't worth it & that's where the DVLA have been clever. By pitching the charge (not fine) @ a lowish figure, many will weigh up the pros & cons & send the cheque, only the really principled will fight to the end for £40.