At the beginning of feb dp declared sorn on a vehicle we have which we are actually going to sell.
He declared sorn because he received a letter stating because it was not insured it had to either be insured or declared sorn, because we are not using it we didn't have the insurance so the vehicle was just on our drive.
Anyway sorn had to be done before 14/2 which this was done we did it on 6/2 online.
However last week we received a letter saying we had to pay a fine unless we can prove we had declared sorn before this date (14/2)
I looked back in the email to see if I had the confirmation and I can't find it, however it says on the letter that if the evidence is not sent in that the offence still stands.
We called DVLA who said because the letter has been issued they can't do anything from there system now as they can't get into the details.
So even though we have declared sorn before the date we still have to pay, this seems unfair and surly they can see on there system when it was declared sorn?
So do we "put up & shut up" so to speak and pay the fine, or what else can we do?
Or should we pay the fine and the contest it?
Any advice would be great.
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MorningCoffee · 25/02/2013 19:30
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