Received Letter of Claim – Smart Parking / BWLegal – Collingham House, Wimbledon

Coupon-mad

JoeBloggs900 said:

JoeBloggs900 said:

Just an update - I received the following back to my email I sent to them:

Thank you for contacting us, please find our response below: Good Afternoon Please note that we have hold your address XXX A PCN is not subject to VAT as it is not an invoice. A PCN is a reminder of your contractual obligations to adhere to the terms and conditions of parking and notification that these terms have been breached due to unauthorised parking. Should you wish to dispute this matter further please seek your own legal advise.  Kind Regards  If you have any further issues or new questions that you would like us to assist you with, we kindly request that you use the contact options below to submit a new query. You can also log into our Customer Portal by clicking here, and go to the Contact History of your account to view the contact.

 

Yours sincerely,

BW Legal

Coupon-mad said:

Dear BW Legal,

I didn't ask you about VAT on the PCN.

Try again: VAT does apply to DRA fees, so who is expected to pay that element, in this case? Me?

yours faithfully,

JoeBloggs900 said:

They once again evade the question. Should I carry on or not bother? Does it matter if I kick the hornets nest too much or irrelevant?

Good Morning, 

Thank you for your email.

The Parking Charge issued is for the sum of £100.00 and our additional costs amount to £60.00. The relevant Code of Practice laid out by the International Parking Community (IPC) states that £100.00 is a reasonable amount to charge for the breach of contract within our Client's car parks. The additional cost of £60.00 represents the nature and type of work undertaken by debt recovery agents in the collection of the balance of the unpaid Parking Charge.

Our Client is satisfied that you remain liable for the cost of the PCN and the costs of debt recovery, due to non-payment of the charge in question. 

Dear Sirs,

You'll have to try again.

You've admitted that "The additional cost of £60.00 represents the nature and type of work undertaken by debt recovery agents in the collection of the balance of the unpaid Parking Charge."

Therefore the £60 is subject to VAT, see here:

VATFIN3255 - Credit, debts and related services: debts and related services: debt collection

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-finance-manual/vatfin3255

Kindly answer my question.

yours faithfully

JoeBloggs900

Hi - an update. I have not received any further letters relating to this bogus claim since kicking the can down the road.

However I have at least one call coming every day from a number up in Leeds,which I did not answer as I do not answer calls from numbers I do not recognise. After googling it appears BW are calling me every day. What would they want to speak about? They are not leaving voicemails.

Should I answer and ask what they want? 

Gr1pr

Definitely not,  ignore them

Coupon-mad

JoeBloggs900 said:

Hi - an update. I have not received any further letters relating to this bogus claim since kicking the can down the road.

However I have at least one call coming every day from a number up in Leeds,which I did not answer as I do not answer calls from numbers I do not recognise. After googling it appears BW are calling me every day. What would they want to speak about? They are not leaving voicemails.

Should I answer and ask what they want? 

No. They want your money.

kryten3000

JoeBloggs900 said:

However I have at least one call coming every day from a number up in Leeds,which I did not answer as I do not answer calls from numbers I do not recognise. After googling it appears BW are calling me every day. What would they want to speak about? They are not leaving voicemails.

Should I answer and ask what they want? 

Block their number and report to the ICO as harassment/unwanted calls