HELP! DVLA fine for un-taxed vehicle

sheramber

You can be fined every time your car is reported as not taxed.

SO , if you were using the car it could have been picked up by a camera and reported back to DVLA.

unforeseen

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

No, the OP paid a fine as well of £80 and has now received a second fine.

The £164 sounds like the back tax for the period that it wasn't taxed.

Shoshannah

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

No, the OP paid a fine as well of £80 and has now received a second fine.

The fines are not duplicates, unfortunately.

£80 - failure to renew tax or declare SORN on time.

£164 - driving an untaxed vehicle on the road.

They are two completely separate offences. Had the OP not been driving around in the untaxed car, she would have still had the £80 fine for failure to renew, but wouldn't have incurred the £164, IYSWIM.

Sorry OP, but all the fines you've had are 'normal' and there are well-published warnings for all on their site. I'm not being snippy, btw, just saying how it is. For what it's worth, I did exactly the same thing earlier this year!

Hope you get it sorted.