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Old 16th June 2009, 10:29   #1 (permalink)
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Default please help... huge congestion fine mistake

anyone that could help i would be soo grateful!
basically i paid for the wrong week when paying my congestion.. i paid the week after the week i was actually intending to pay for. so now im having to pay a weeks worth of fines.
do you think it would b possible to get out of this.. how can i dispute this??

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Default congestion fines

i paid for the wrong week by accident so am now expected to pay a week worth of fines for my error...
are there any loopholes in congestion law that will get me out of paying this?
please help!
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Surely if you explain what happened they will see it was a mistake??
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2 threads merged. Please stick to one thread.
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Congestion charge penalties are notoriously difficult to fight.
However, this may possibly help:

http://www.parkingandtrafficappeals....ante_v_TfL.pdf
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I always find it laughable that they persit in calling it a "congestion charge" instead of justing calling it what it really is, a straight forward tax on drivng.
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