Car tax - 2 fines

Cbworth

Hi. I Moved house and updated the address on my driving licence, unfortunately I didn't realise you also had to separately tell the dvla about the address change for your car tax (seems ridiculous that their systems can't communicate but that's another issue). The reminders for my tax went to the old address. I realised I'd missed my tax, called dvla renewed it and paid the fine in May 2016. I have now received another fine for March 2016 as I was seen driving the car without tax. Do you think I have grounds to challenge this new fine? I have already paid for the offence and why have the dvla waited 5 months to penalise me for this other offence? That seems so unfair. I accept fault on the initial fine (much as i think dvla systems should be communicating). Any ideas?
Thank you

unforeseen

2 totally different offences.
The first is probably something like failing to SORN your vehicle.
The 2nd is driving without valid tax

fisherjim

Don't understand why you think two different government departments dealing with millions of records should second guess where you and your vehicle are living sorry.

As for the car, I see two issues:

1 you could SORN a vehicle leave it on private ground and pay no road tax, you didn't do that so you were fined for having an untaxed vehicle.

2 You were also caught driving an untaxed vehicle on the road which is a separate offence.

I would suggest taking this over to pepipoo they would have more experience on real fines than this forum, but I wouldn't hold much hope personally.

Marvel1

With the address, for example my cousin and his father share the same name, my cousin moves out but does not yet have his own car, so they could end up amending his father's vehicle address.

yotmon

They must be able to 'cross reference' as my DL was up for renewal this year but was showing as my old address. As I still owned the other property I didn't notify them as I thought I'd just wait for the renewal date. I actually received the renewal at my new address ! I was then allowed to use my passport photo as well. So, it seems that they can link DL's with Passports but not vehicles ?

Marvel1

yotmon wrote: »

They must be able to 'cross reference' as my DL was up for renewal this year but was showing as my old address. As I still owned the other property I didn't notify them as I thought I'd just wait for the renewal date. I actually received the renewal at my new address ! I was then allowed to use my passport photo as well. So, it seems that they can link DL's with Passports but not vehicles ?

See my post above, also a mate of mine has the same as his Son also, both having driving licences but only Son has vehicle.