A City worker has been fined nearly £40,000 for forgetting to pay the tax on his car for just over a month.Sam Fisher, 30, faced prosecution by the DVLA this month over £50 of tax which had gone unpaid on his Range Rover.A magistrate sat in private to decide on the case, in the Single Justice Procedure, and concluded Mr Fisher must pay an eye-watering £39,769 fine for the slip-up.
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00:00A city worker has been fined nearly £40,000 for forgetting to pay the tax on his car for just over a month.
00:07Sam Fisher, 30, faced prosecution by the DVLA this month over £50 of tax which had gone unpaid on his Range Rover.
00:17A magistrate sat in private to decide on the case in the single justice procedure
00:22and concluded Fisher must pay an eye-watering £39,769 fine.
00:29Fisher wrote in to explain his mistake while pleading guilty to a charge of keeping a vehicle without a valid vehicle licence.
00:37He said the tax was included on a past vehicle that he leased
00:42and he had failed to realise that the tax on his new car only lasted the first year, expiring at the end of June last year.
00:49A magistrate sitting in Crewe in Cheshire accepted Fisher's guilty plea
00:54and upon conviction he was ordered to pay the five-figure fine, £85 in costs and the £50 unpaid tax bill.