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    • it is NOT A FINE.....this is an extremely important point to understand no-one bar a magistrate in a magistrates criminal court can ever fine anyone for anything. Private Parking Tickets (speculative invoices) are NOT a criminal matter, merely a speculative contractual Civil matter hence they can only try a speculative monetary claim via the civil county court system (which is no more a legal powers matter than what any member of Joe Public can do). Until/unless they do raise a county court claim a CCJ and win, there are not ANY enforcement powers they can undertake other than using a DCA, whom are legally powerless and are not BAILIFFS. Penalty Charge Notices issued by local authorities etc were decriminalised years ago - meaning they no longer can progress a claim to the magistrates court to enforce, but go directly to legal enforcement via a real BAILIFF themselves. 10'000 of people waste £m's paying private parking companies because they think they are FINES...and the media do not help either. the more people read the above the less income this shark industry get. where your post said fine it now says charge .............. please fill out the Q&A ASAP. dx  
    • Well done on reading the other threads. If ECP haven't got the guts to do court then there is no reason to pay them. From other threads there is a 35-minute free stay after which you need to pay, with the signs hidden where no-one will read them.  Which probably explains why ECP threaten this & threaten that, but in the end daren't do court. As for your employer - well you can out yourself as the driver to ECP so the hamster bedding will arrive at yours.  Get your employer to do that using the e-mail address under Appeals and Transfer Of Liability.  
    • good you are getting there. Lloyds/TSb...i certainly would not be risking possible off-setting going on if a choice were there, but in all honestly thats obv too late now..., however..you might not never be in that situation so dont worry too much. regardless to being defaulted or not, if any debt that is not paid/used in 6yrs it becomes statute barred. you need to understand a couple of things like 'default' and 'default notice' a default is simply a recorded D in the calendar section/history of a debt, it does not really mean anything. might slightly hit your rating. the important thing here is a default notice , these are issued by the original creditor (OC) under the consumer credit act, it gives you 14 days to settle whatever they are asking, if you don't then they have the option to register a defaulted date on your credit file. that can make getting other credit more difficult. and hits your rating. once that happens, not matter what you do after that, paying it or not or not paid off or not, the whole account vanishes from your credit file on the DN's 6th b'day. though that might not necessarily mean the debt is not still owed - thats down to the SB date above. an OC very rarely does court and only the OWNER of a debt can instigate any court action (Attempted a CCJ) DCA's debt collection agencies - DCA's are NOT BAILIFFS they have ZERO legal powers on ANY debt - no matter what it's TYPE. an OC make pass a debt to a dca as their client to try and spoof people into paying through legal ignorance of the above statement. an OC may SELL on an old debt to a DCA/debt buyer (approx 10p=£1) and then claim their losses through tax write off and their business insurance, wiping their hands of the debt. the DCA then becomes the debt OWNER. since the late 70's dca's pull all kinds of 'stunts' through threat-o-grams to spoof a debtor into paying them the full value of the debt, when they bought if for a discounted sum (typically 10p=£1). you never pay a dca a penny! if read carefully, NONE of their letters nor those of any other 'trading names' they spoof themselves under making it seem it's going up some kind of legitimate legal 'chain' say WILL anything....just carefully worded letters with all kinds of threats of what could/might/poss happen with other such words as instruct forward pass... well my dog does not sit when instructed too...so... DCA's SOMETIMES will issue a court claim, but in all honesty its simply a speculative claim hoping mugs wet themselves and cough up...oh im going to court... BIG DEAL DCA - show me the enforceable paperwork signed by me...9/10 they dont have it and if your defence is conducted properly, most run away from you . however before they do all that they now have to send a letter of claim, cause the courts got fed up with them issuing +750'000PA speculative claims and jamming up the legal system. so bottom line is two conclusions.... if you cant pay a debt, get a DN issued ASAP (stop paying it!) make sure it gets registered on your file then it stops hurting your file/future credit in 6yrs regardless to what happens (bar of course a later DCA CCJ - fat chance mind!)  once you've a registered DN , then look into restarting payments if the debt is still owed by the OC, if SOLD to a DCA, don't pay - see if they issue a letter of claim (then comeback here!).        
    • Any update here?  I ask as we have someone new being hassled for parking at this site.
    • Any update here?  I ask as we have someone new being hassled for parking at this site.
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The following is a News Release from Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert: Consumer Revenge - Credit Cards, Shopping, Bank Charges, Cheap Flights and more

 

 

News Release. Monday 25 February 2008

 

Council tax bands check ‘n’ challenge system

 

Huge numbers have already reclaimed £1,000s due to misbanding.

 

The recent press discovery of a cover up over council tax bands is further evidence that hundreds of thousands could get cash back by following MoneySavingExpert.com’s check ‘n’ challenge system. Since the campaign was launched in February 2007, over 3 million people have tried the system and the website is overloaded with success stories, including some who’ve got over £4,000 back.

 

By checking your band, it’s not just the current band that can be lowered, but a backdated payout to the date you moved in.

 

Why people can get so much back

 

Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis, the creator of consumer revenge website MoneySavingExpert.com, came up with the cashback system. He explains:

 

“The amount you pay in council tax depends on which band you’re in. In England and Scotland, the bands depend on the 1991 valuation of house price values. Yet these didn’t involve someone coming to your home; many were ‘second gear valuations’, so called because estate agents would literally drive past houses and allocate a band. We’re still reliant on the same system meaning there are more holes than Swiss cheese."

 

“Many people are living in incorrectly banded houses, and with the internet it’s now possible to check and challenge your band for free, possibly winning a backdated payment from 1993, when the system started, worth £1,000s.”

 

Why people should reclaim NOW

 

Lewis is urging people to act now. He says: “The closer we get to a

revaluation, the more institutionally difficult it will be for someone to get their own house rebanded. Already if you’ve been in a property more than six months, you have to force a rebanding, and as we progress towards a national rebanding it could mean many miss out reclaiming the £1,000s they’ve overpaid.”

 

Money Saving Experts three step banding ‘check and challenge’

 

Step 1: Check your banding compared to your neighbours’.

 

Go to Valuation Office Agency - homepage (England and Wales) or Scottish Assessors Association* (Scotland), which allow you to check your council tax band and the band of any of your neighbours in similar houses for free (bands range from A to H, with H being more expensive houses). It’s very easy to do, and the results can be startling. If there looks to be a discrepancy, ie you’re in a higher band than neighbours in a similar property, you may have a case.

 

Step 2: Work out your house price at 1991 levels.

 

If there’s a chance you’re in the wrong band, to check, you bizarrely need to work out what your house was worth in 1991, because that’s how council tax bands are allocated. To do this, go to Council Tax Rebanding: Lower your band and save £1,000s... where you can find out, for free, all the homes in your street’s recent sale prices. Next, follow the instructions on how to use web house price inflation calculators to quickly calculate the 1991 price. Finally, compare this to the 1991 bands listed; if it looks like you should be a lower band, you’re in action.

 

Step 3: Challenge your band.

 

If both the above steps show you’re in the wrong band, then you can challenge it. However, remember that if you ask to be rebanded it is possible your band will be increased, not decreased. If you moved into the property in the last six months, it’s easy to ask your council to look at the banding. If not, even if it refuses to consider it, you can still push hard by writing and saying “I believe the council tax list is erroneous, and you have a duty to maintain its accuracy”. For full details on this go to Council Tax Rebanding: Lower your band and save £1,000s...

 

How widespread are the payments likely to be?

 

Martin Lewis, creator of MoneySavingExpert.com comments, “The success reports are constantly flowing in, as people work through the system and get their money. If you’re moved to a lower band, you get a backdated payout, for as long as you’ve been in the property, this means in most cases £1,000 to £5,000.”

 

“Therefore the clarion call is simple: everybody, everybody, everybody should take the ten minutes it takes to check if they’re in the right band.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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