Hello, any help would be much appreciated. I got a letter from the DVLA a few months ago saying our car was untaxed for a period of months and offering a settlement. I rang them up because, I’m checking, it turned out that my direct debit hadn’t auto-renewed. They said to write in with my mitigation, which I did, and my letter explained what had happened and I asked them to use their discretion not to fine me and that I was happy to pay the unpaid tax. Roll forward a couple of months and I’ve now received a summons to the magistrates court for the offence of an untaxed car and it says that they didn’t receive a written response to their earlier letter. So it looks like they didn’t get my letter / printouts. I want to call them in the morning to ask if they’ll just let me pay and whether they’ll discontinue proceedings - I have no problem paying but I was hoping there would be a stage of them considering my letter! Does anyone know whether the DVLA will do this? Surely they won’t want the hassle of court if I’m just offering to pay? I don’t want to plead guilty even if that does dispose of it all efficiently, because an offence on the record will cause a significant issue for my employment. I can’t sleep thinking about it.