FURTHER STEPS NOTICE - DVLA No Road Tax

thevoyager

Hi. 

FURTHER STEPS NOTICE - Amount of around £650 ish.

Total fine was £900+. Includes court fines and fee to dvla.

I got a letter dated 14th Feb 2024. I was out the country from 16th Feb to 1st March. Got the letter on 2nd March.

At first I thought it was a continuation of d w p "over payment" of working tax credit.

I called him and the guy was confused when I blasted him with d w p stuff, he then said this is to do with with vehicle tax none payment.

He did not have much info like dates and anything else.But said it was for around mid 2019, but no info on how long was untaxed for.

He did tell me that I have already paid off £200 ish.

Turns out when I was getting Univrsal Credit 3 years ago that paid for some of it.

I told him I only remember my van being out of tax for 1 month, he said tough, you need to pay.

Unless I go to court and contest it?

Which he worked out will cost me £300+ or so if i lose, which let's face it I will as power rests not with me.

I said I would pay £1 a week, he refused, but he did say they would agree to £10 a week, which still I am not happy about. £900 fine for what I remember was a month with no tax seems a bit excessive?!

Is there any way I can get out of this now?

As I have already started paying apparently.

He said it was passed to Marstons but I never heard anything off them.

?

poppy12345

You've posted in the welfare benefits section of the forum. You would be better posting in the motoring section. I've requested it to be moved over to there. 

thevoyager

That would be great, please let me know if it can't be moved, i will have to retype it out.

Keep_pedalling

thevoyager said:

That would be great, please let me know if it can't be moved, i will have to retype it out.

I have reported the thread, hopefully a mod will move it shortly.

Keep_pedalling

The first thing that should have happened after you failed to pay your tax on time would have been an £80 late licensing penalty (LLP) of £80.

This is reduced by 50% if paid within 28 days. If you failed to respond to that it goes to court and you end up with a very expensive fine. It sounds like you had not kept the address on your v5 up to date as it has taken so long to track you down.

Offering £1 a week is a non starter, this is not a parking fine you have no way of dodging this only adding to the costs you already face.

thevoyager

Thanks for info.

What do you think is my next / best course of action?

noitsnotme

thevoyager said:

What do you think is my next / best course of action?

Pay it.  If they’ve offered £10 a week then snap their hand off.

Nasqueron

Pay the debt - you can't have a vehicle on the road without VED (there is no such thing as road tax) - so either declare it as SORN or pay the tax next time, the government has all the power here and offering £1 a week is not going to wash due to the time it would take to pay back

thevoyager

£900+ is excessive tho? I think burglars get way less?!

LightFlare

Excessive - possibly, but only because you presumably failed to keep your documentation in order.

born_again

Might want to edit out the UC stuff as it's not relevant & UC would not pay DVLA for you.

As other only way out is to pay.