For those thinking of paying a PPC

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Leaving aside all the other issues of the validity of the charges a PPC tries to claim, it is often said that if you pay a PPC a lower rate they may delay cashing the cheque and then demand a higher amount.

An example of this is shown here www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-2178333/ASK-TONY-Why-did-25-parking-fine-turn-110-penalty.html How it took Parking Collection Services and/or Senator Security almost 5 weeks to cash a cheque is anyone's guess unless it was not accidental.

Thankfully the comments section has several posts stating the true situation regarding these unenforcable invoices. The purpose of my post is to show that paying the smaller fee in the hope it may "go away" isn't the best course of action - regular posters may want to link to it in future advice.

Ozne

Dear o dear, what a wasted opportunity by the so-called financial advisor. Poor show.

BASFORDLAD

What an idiot being conned twice.

Stephen_Leak

We have heard of too many delayed payments for it to be an administrative error every time. Blackmailers always comes back for more.

taffy056

Tony this is not a penalty or a fine, those are issued by regularity bodies such as councils or the police, they are called Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) or Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) . What you have here is a Parking Charge Notice (FAKE PCN) that has no ability to become anything unless it goes to the small claims court.

You should be aware of the decision in the Upper Tier Tax Tribunal case of VCS v HMRC, in which the ruling was that Private Parking Companies cannot lawfully make an offer of parking, or levy charges, unless they have a proprietary interest in the land.

Now please update your advice, and do some research of the above Tax Tribunal case which is freely available on the net.

Its a shame that they will not allow this post on their site, but have allowed another post where I am giving further advice to someone who posted. Obviously they only allow comments that they think will not undermine their whole article. Completely Pathetic!

Kite2010

Just more proof that the parasites known as private parking companies will try every trick in the book to get more money from payers, citing that the cheque didn't arrive in time. The BPA are useless in every way.

Even if you do send the cheque via recorded delivery they will claim by the time it was cashed it was late.