Late Licensing Penalty...

[SunnySunbeam]

I was late in taxing my bike last summer.

Then in February I received a request from a debt collection agency for £80, in relation to a Late Licensing Penalty which until then I had not known anything about.

In conversation with them it became apparent that I should have received a request for £40 from DVLA at some point prior to this.

I had recently changed address, so reasonably assumed that the original demand must have gone to my old house, and the debt collectors letter to my new one.

I wrote to DVLA accepting that I was late and that I might have to pay a penalty, but that I had never been given an opportunity to pay the £40, so please issue me with the original demand to consider.

There reply was a standard 'get lost' template letter that did not relate to the basic points at issue here.

I have the option to appeal, does anyone think I have a case worth pursuing for the sake of saving £40?

(The new V5 appears to prove the date of changed address)

Thanks

[Dwight VanDriver]

DVLA have statutory authority to impose this £80 fine for non tax/sorn of a vehicle.

They can also take you to Court for failing to forthwith notify change of address Driving Licence and V5 which it appears you did not do.

So I doubt you will get any sympathy on an appeal.

dvd