Last year dh had a slip up. His mot was up on his car and he failed to renew it, not purposely at all he just got the month wrong due to his previous car being a different month. Entirely his fault but not done at all on purpose. He rectified this as soon as he realised (i think it was a month late). What he then didn't realise is that because the car was not mot'd , the tax which normally comes out automatically from the bank was not taken. DH was driving around in an untaxed car for some time before we got a letter through the post fining him. Because we had moved house the letters had been sent originally to the old address. As although dh had updated his contact details there was some sort of error here too. So by the time dh received the letter he had been summoned to court and had to pay a fine in the region of £300. This all happened last August.
Today dh has just recieved a letter stating that he must pay a fine of £80 for not taxing his car. This is from the same offence. DH doesn't even have the car anymore.
DH phoned them today and said that he felt this was all dealt with as he had appeared in court and paid the fine the judge asked him to.
However, they are saying that he must still pay the £80 as this one is for failure to tax or declare the car as sorn. Whereas the other one was for driving an untaxed vehicle.
The offence occured last March. Surely they would have dealt with both issues at the same time. Why would it take over a year to now send out this fine.
DH has not agreed to pay yet as he wants to get in touch with the people he paid the £300 to first as he feels there must be some confusion.
Does anyone have any experience please?