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chillies
Original Poster
48 posts
70 months
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Got a nasty letter from the DVLA this week telling me that I need to boost their income by £55 for failing to notify them that I had disposed of the vehicle I sold over four months ago! I sent the Registration Document part that I had to fill in at the time. The letter says that it is an offence that I have not followed the correct procedure.
Am I going to jail and for how long?
Thanks
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Red Devil
692 posts
35 months
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chillies said: Got a nasty letter from the DVLA this week telling me that I need to boost their income by £55 for failing to notify them that I had disposed of the vehicle I sold over four months ago! I sent the Registration Document part that I had to fill in at the time. The letter says that it is an offence that I have not followed the correct procedure.
Am I going to jail and for how long? They are not fining you for failing to notify. It's for your failure to follow up within the required time frame to ask why they hadn't acknowledged that you were no longer the RK. In other words YOU doing THEIR job for them. I bet you forgot to send it Special Delivery. You should ALWAYS send documents to DVLA by this method as they are tracked throughout (note that this is not the case with Recorded Delivery). That way you can prove they received them and notification was made. The DVLA will use every means at their disposal to extract money from the motorist. Even to the extent of refusing to admit their ever make a mistake and getting the rules framed so that they always win. High time the Agency was reformed but it won't happen as the government is never going to willingly curb one of their prize cash cows.
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chillies
Original Poster
48 posts
70 months
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Thanks Red. Did not send recorded or special delivery. Have bought and sold only a few cars over the years. Last one I bought (from a Dealer), I had to to fill out the bloody form to Tax it 6 months later as the DVLA did not know I was the new owner!
I think I might write a nasty letter to someone!
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skeggysteve
2,413 posts
44 months
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O/T but thought I'd share my favourite bit of DVLA stupidity. Have a look at your logbook (V5C). When you sell the vehicle you give the new owner/keeper section 10. You then have to send the first page to the DVLA. Simple? Now look where the address is that you have to send the first page too. Yes, on the bit that you just gave to the new owner/keeper 
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chillies
Original Poster
48 posts
70 months
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Or I can just give the DVLA a few more quid and when I need to find out where anyone with a car lives, I just need to tell them your Registration number!
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Rach*
5,050 posts
43 months
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chillies said: Got a nasty letter from the DVLA this week telling me that I need to boost their income by £55 for failing to notify them that I had disposed of the vehicle I sold over four months ago! I sent the Registration Document part that I had to fill in at the time. The letter says that it is an offence that I have not followed the correct procedure.
Am I going to jail and for how long?
Thanks Ditto, I got one today for the bike I sold in July 
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Allanv
525 posts
13 months
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I had the same in 2005, I still have the letter I wrote to them. They cancelled the fine.
Your welcome to the letter if you want.
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Rach*
5,050 posts
43 months
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Allanv
525 posts
13 months
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Rach* said: Yes please! PM sent
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focusboy
182 posts
17 months
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Dvla tried that on me, told me i have got till the 21st of october to pay the fine. Now can any one guess when i actually sold the car?
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crmcatee
1,651 posts
54 months
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Can't you just reply - no longer at this address ?
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streaky
8,795 posts
76 months
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Red Devil said: You should ALWAYS send documents to DVLA by this method as they are tracked throughout ... Do you think DVLA sign for all the tracked items they receive? They're marked en bloc as being delivered ... whether they are or not - Streaky
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chr15b
1,713 posts
17 months
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focusboy said: Dvla tried that on me, told me i have got till the 21st of october to pay the fine. Now can any one guess when i actually sold the car? Today?
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T89 Callan
6,211 posts
20 months
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crmcatee said: Can't you just reply - no longer at this address ? No becuase the they have the address on your driving licence.
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s.m.h.
2,488 posts
42 months
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Some say dont pay, I disputed the payment as they lost my paperwork in one of their offices. In the end they still fined me £40 which was half the original fine, after several letters. In the end I got fed up with their "we are right you are wrong pay us" attitude.
I now make sure I call them 1 week before the 4 week period is up.
HTF they manage to get away with fining people for their own incompetence is beyond me...
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Red Devil
692 posts
35 months
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streaky said: Red Devil said: You should ALWAYS send documents to DVLA by this method as they are tracked throughout ... Do you think DVLA sign for all the tracked items they receive? They're marked en bloc as being delivered ... [/b]whether they are or not[/b] - Streaky Do you have proof of that Streaky? If so, and they are not delivered, then Royal Mail have some questions to answer. They are taking under false pretences the additional monies paid by the sender.
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saaby93
866 posts
5 months
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Wasn't there another thread a month back which aid that if they can claim they haven't received the first class tear off slip, you can claim you havent received their first class bill for £55?
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fluffnik
9,803 posts
54 months
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s.m.h. said: HTF they manage to get away with fining people for their own incompetence is beyond me... Because, like much of the state, they are a racket that serves only itself.
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Dwight VanDriver
5,332 posts
71 months
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Someone please educate me for I must have missed it.
What is the legislation that permits DVLA to 'fine' for failing to notify which is an offence that Courts deal with.?
There is specific legislation to permit them to add a surcharge in relation to failure to SORN.
Poster please ask them for the Act and section that permits them to do this.
dvd
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skeeterm5
348 posts
15 months
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I have just sent my log book back to the DVLA as I sold my bike, in the instructions on the log book it says something along the lines of:
if you do not get a letter from the DVLA confirming that we have had the log book then please telephone this number and talk to us........
So if you sent it 3 months ago and hadnt had an acknowledgement you should have phoned.
S
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