fined £548 for not having road tax, !!!!!!? Need advice

daveyjp

Johno100 wrote: »

Nice bit of Googling :T

I'd be surprised if we hear from the OP again.

Not googling, just coincidence as I happen to use Honestjohn website.

Johno100

daveyjp wrote: »

Not googling, just coincidence as I happen to use Honestjohn website.

Honestjohn as well? He has been a busy boy, I found his post on CAG :rotfl:

nobbysn*ts

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Judging by the way that you write your posts, I would take a guess that the 5 cars you claim to own are very similar to these:

That would be right, the VED would be cheaper.

George_Michael

"I got stopped for no road tax last November and received the court summons on may 19th and had since forgotten about it. I received a letter from the Court today with a fine, I had missed the court date on the 11th and as a result my fine has exploded to £548 (£400 fine, £58.34 back duty and £90 costs) for no road tax from June til November last year.

Do you honestly expect anyone to believe that you received a court summons on the 19th May and that you totally forgot about having to attend court just over 3 weeks later, especially as you have already lied about this matter.

I haven't moved address in 15 years, and have received absolutely zero contact from the DVLA or any Court in reference to this conviction.

Hopefully someone from the South West Devon court service has seen this thread or will have it passed on to them in due course.

Cornucopia

There's no point asking for advice and leaving out vital details.

SDs are for people whose invitations to court got lost in the post, not for dullards who forgot about them.

Your penalty for forgetting about it is to receive a fine unadjusted for income.

shaun_from_Africa

A bit of a typo there Cornucopia!

Cornucopia wrote: »

There's no point asking for advice and [STRIKE]leaving out[/STRIKE] lying about vital details.

SDs are for people whose invitations to court got lost in the post, not for dullards who forgot about them.

Your penalty for forgetting about it is to receive a fine unadjusted for income.

And I fully agree with GM who thought it unlikely that anyone would just forget about being summonsed to attend court.

Joe_Horner

DaveTheMus wrote: »

quoted for.....

Posterity?

custardy

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

All tax is on a sliding scale. If you can afford more than one car, you can afford to pay more. If you can afford to use it 5 times in 365 days, you can afford a lot more than someone who can only afford one car for the entire family. Suck it up, and accept you're well off.

It doesnt really work on afford.
You can buy an old banger and be paying £500 a year.
A brand new car and be paying £0

Norman_Castle

Johno100 wrote: »

I've no idea I'm sure you can tell us?

But I do know that nationally the government takes three times as much in motoring taxes as it spends on the roads.

http://www.iam-bristol.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=538&Itemid=1

From the IAM site linked to above.


[FONT=&quot] "Using so little of the taxes motorists pay for the upkeep of our roads is plainly unfair."
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[FONT=&quot]"These latest Government figures show it is business as usual for UK drivers who contribute more than three times what they receive in service."

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VED is a tax. Its not a charge, a fee or a toll paid in return for a service.

Institute of advanced motorists?. Institute of ignorant motorists may be more appropriate.

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AdrianC

custardy wrote: »

You can buy an old banger and be paying £500 a year.

Your definition of "old banger" clearly differs from mine. I don't tend to regard 8yo high-end cars as "old bangers".