DVLA and Adventis debt collection agency

drr

Hi guys, I moved house 6 months ago and in that time I stupidly forgot to renew my car tax for 1 month until I realised.
I completely forgot about it, until last week I received a letter from Adventis who appear to be a debt collection agency. I have had absolutely no correspondence to my new address from the DVLA (V5 was updated a month after the tax was due) so I think they sent the reminder to my old address, in which I have no access to. So it's my bad for not updating my v5 sooner.

I phoned Adventis, and they advised me that I have an £80 fine for not taxing the vehicle for one month - yep a big price to pay when my road tax is only £20 a year anyway!

My question is, am I best to pay the fine to the DVLA directly or should I pay it to this debt collection company? I have had daily missed calls from the collection company since I called them asking what it was all about.

Struggling on what to do really so any help would be appreciated.

waamo

Who does the letter tell you to pay? That's who you need to tip your cash over to.

Failing to deal with paperwork correctly has got you here so do you really want to compound it by ignoring the instructions given to you?

EdGasketTheSecond

If it is from Adventis then no such agency exists and it is likely a scam.


If it is actually from Advantis then they claim that DVLA use them:
https://www.advantiscredit.co.uk/dvla-faq/