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After owning the same car for over 20years I found myself needing to replace it.

 

I purchased a car last year (August 17) which was £0 tax.

All the relevant paperwork was sent off and i received the new keeper registration document.

What I didn't realise is that i needed to register my car online.

 

In November 17 my vehicle was clamped for being untaxed.

I was totally shocked and couldn't understand why this was as i did not have to pay tax on it.

My mistake.

I paid the fine of £100 to get it unclamped after registering the car.

I thought that was it.

 

However, I have now received a letterlink3.gif to say that must pay out an out of court settlement of £30.00 to stop DVLA taking me to court!

 

I dont understand how that can be if i have paid the fine and corrected my mistake.

I was not told that i would be charged an additional £30 2 months later!

Surely, this money making and cannot be legal

 

Does anyone else experienced this? please advise.

 

 

Do I pay the £30 fine

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Who from dvla or dca

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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hidden the above you MUST redact things of pers info/anything that can ID you.

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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The OP is suffering from one of the ironies of tax exemption and that is you still have to fill out a tax renewal every year.

 

The same goes for veteran cars that dont need tax or an MOT,

you sill have to jump through the same hoops and even declare the vehicle SORNed if you are going to leave it in the garage this year instead of doing the London to brighton run.

 

So your problem was not the registration of the vehicle but your failure to apply for road tax at the nil rate for the year.

Not much you can do to get out of the £30 rip off demand

This is why they dont do away with road tax and slap the extra on as fuel duty

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...I paid the fine of £100 to get it unclamped after registering the car. I thought that was it

as the letter says, the clamping is deemed separate to the 'untaxed' liability (its note #3 re the Regs).

as said, the same hoops need to be jumped through re a nil tax vehicle. (even though they know its nil on their computers)

this is something to be aware of now when buying/transferring a vehicle, as any tax (even nil) on it now gets auto cancelled upon. before

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under what grounds?

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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its not a fine...its an out of court settlement

not a clampers job to tell you the law...

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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IMHO no.

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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The normal DVLA Penalty for not taxing a car is min £30 + any road tax due.

Just be grateful you were not stopped by a Police check which would have shown no tax on vehicle and may have invalidated your Ins.

It took me 2 mins online , this week to tax an exempt vehicle for 12 month for £nil having received the V11 reminder.

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A common misconception/urban myth.

 

Not having VEL on a vehicle does not invalidate your insurance. No VEL is a revenue offence and has absolutely nothing to do with car insurance.

 

However, under devolved powers (powers devolved from the DVLA to the Police) if the force that stops you have them (most do now) a vehicle with expired VEL can be seized.

Please note that my posts are my opinion only and should not be taken as any kind of legal advice.
In fact, they're probably just waffling and can be quite safely and completely ignored as you wish.

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