I'm a bit worried that my tax disc fine hasn't come through the post.

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I'm in Ireland, where we do still need to display a tax disc. About 5 weeks ago my au pair was stopped by Gardai for not displaying a tax disc, it was taxed but just not displayed. This has a €60 automatic fine, but nothing has turned up. I'm slightly worried that it has been sent to the wrong address or something and I will get into further trouble for having an unpaid fine. Is there anyway to check whether the fine has been issued and/or pay it online? The registration address is correct for the car so if they use a database it should come here, but if the garda wrote the address down wrongly and they use that then it could have gone anywhere.

Is it not more likely that you weren't actually fined? It was the same here that failure to display was an offence, but I think police officers did have discretion over whether to fine you if the vehicle showed up as taxed when they did a PNC check. Is it automatic with no room for an officer's discretion to give you a warning?

Surely Gardai double check the address they've been given with the database? If you are concerned ring and ask them.

Is it not more likely that your au pair has misunderstood the warning if it's been five weeks?

I might ring the station that they came from. It was a nice cop/nasty cop set up apparently so, unless the nice cop was the more senior officer, I doubt the nasty cop will let anything go from how she was described to me. Both DS and our au pair were highly anxious for several days after how she dealt with them (our au pair obviously coped with his anxiety as he's an adult, but DS was completely obsessed and hyper-vigilant).