Help with SORN

TerryandGaby

Wonder if anyone can help me with a SORN problem. My car ran out of tax at the end of March, a couple of days before which I sent the SORN form away. In the preceding couple of months, I lost my job, a close family member, and was forced to move house. Luckily, things are a little back on track, having secured a new job. I recieved a letter yesterday saying that I had not registered my car with a SORN, and so was responsible for a £80 fine. I definitely sent said letter away. I can only be accused of not getting in touch with them when I didn't recieve a confirmation letter - in all honesty, I had much more important things to deal with. What should I do now? I'm loathe to pay a fine because I've done nothing wrong.

Conor_3

You'll end up paying the fine eventually because I don't know of anyone who has appealed and won TBH. Their argument is that you didn't get in touch after 3 weeks when you didn't get confirmation although TBH, how many of us even think about it:?

Inactive

Either SORN a vehicle online, or post via recorded delivery next time, I think you will have to pay this time as you have no proof that you posted it.

Lakeuk

I successfully appealed a SORN fine 6yrs ago, I'd posted my SORN but a couple of months later they reconed they never received - luckily I take copies of these kind of things and just wrote back to complain that I'd done my bit.

After this experience I don't trust the post so now take it in person to the post office and get a receipt.

alastairq

sadly the DVLA make the point that claiming one has posted it doesn't wash....

Personally I feel the DVLA have too much power in these respects.

firstly with SORN, and secondly,with their RECOVERY of VED not paid.

With SORN, I would like their wings clipped, in other words, they have to PROVE the vehicle was actually ON the public highway before they attempt to apply a penalty....this they claim they can do easily, with the technology [ANPR] at their disposal...[so why are so many untaxed cars still driving around???]

Secondly, I feel they should NOT be allowed to reclaim back-VED, if the vehicle concerned was PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO BE TAXED.


By which I mean, firstly they have to prove the vehicle WAS on the public highway after the anointed date......but if the vehicle had no [then] current MoT, then even if the owner had wished to tax it, they could not. To then charge back-VED is in my mind, extortion.


no, I am not anti-Welsh, either.