No, they're not driving at all, is how I Read it? I'm guessing a family member drove them to the hospital for an appointment and got this invoice.

I'm not a tax expert of any sort but I don't think you are correct in saying that gold is exempt from CGT but silver is not. According to the Royal Mint - Bullion & Capital Gains Tax (CGT) | The Royal Mint - they are both treated the same. The difference in CGT laibility depends not on which metal they are made of but whether they in the form of coins that are legal tender in the UK, or whether they are bullion held in other forms (gold/silver bars etc). If they are gold or silver coins produced by the Royal Mint, and therefore technically legal tender in the UK, they are CGT exempt. But gold or silver held in any other form is liable to CGT, and CGT must be paid at the point of sale. Is your silver held as legal tender coins, or is it subject to CGT? As for VAT, not something I know much about, but surely only someone who is a trader registered with HMRC for VAT can add VAT to the price of what they sell? Are you a trader registered fo VAT? If not I wouldn't have thought you had the option of adding VAT do you?

Well, this is a first. I've never seen a university or a hospital issue their own PCNs without employing a PPC.

LPS just install the system. this hosp has always been their own PPC. lots on them here but not of recent. dx

Yes, my apologies. I misunderstood what you posted. Thank you for the clarification. HB

This is all standard stuff for CTB. Either provide what they are asking for or withdraw the claim. The councils are required to check all financial records to ensure that people qualify. Don't redact anything. All council and benefit offices are quite used to seeing embarrassing purchase items. ( not suggesting that you have anything to hide). The Council want to see all account entries.

OK, well I would suggest going against the well-established policy of the site and actually appealing in this instance, given you'll be contacting the organ grinder rather than some horrible PPC. However, the default position of whoever reads your mail will no doubt be "reject appeal" so also e-mail PALS (Nicky Boy's link in post 9 above) and also the CEO julian.hartley@nhsproviders.org https://nhsproviders.org/about-us/working-for-us/our-team/julian-hartley That way you have a three-pronged attack. Explain that the registered keeper has advanced Alzheimer's and that you are a family member dealing with this person's affairs. If you have any proof of the condition or can name who made the diagnosis, all the better so they don't think it's a likely story. Explain that you have been racking your brains trying to work out why the charge was issued and your best guess is ... what you explained above. Emphasise that although a mistake may have been made (be sure to use the word "may", don't admit it!) that no-one deprived the hospital of income for the car park as the car was parked outside the car park. Request that the charge be cancelled. Do not at any point name the driver because the hospital would love to "get rid" of the person with Alzheimer's from the equation and have someone else instead to harass who might cough up. Send versions to PALS and the CEO this evening but please wait until tomorrow morning for the appeal, I am suggesting something atypical and I would like to give the other regulars, who have more experience than me, a chance to comment.

We always say never to appeal because the private parking companies never, ever, ever accept appeals - ever. However, you have a point, this is not a normal PPC, it's the hospital itself. A couple of things first. The registered keeper should appeal, but obviously that is physically impossible. Are you a relative of this person? Also, what do you reckon happened? The PCN is for not paying. Did someone really just refuse to pay? Or is it more likely they input the wrong registration number, or they tried to pay but the tech messed up? Any idea?

Hi Kyosanyo Yes the time is on the boarding pass although we were ignorant of that fact at the time. As.we were stood at the checking desk i actually received the "gates closing " message, I showed them as they hered the message. I think we all know what a bunch of ignorant jobsworth arrogant people (taught by head office) the staff are. They still refused to even use common sense. For future reference, there are NO tanoy announcements anymore. This was also our argument with Ryanair, with no avail. Apparently they now use a "Silent call system" whatever that means. But, the fault stil lies with the airp6system.

Please see attached. Evri offer.pdf

Either the hospital direct or PALS. No-one should communicate with LPS, they're insignificant.

It would be far more productive if you scanned redacted and uploaded exactly what you have received documents wise in connection to the claim rather than emailing all the world and his dog and making complaints which will have no bearing on the outcome the claim. Andy

Strange one this. It appears that, as mentioned above, LPS are the PPC. Yet paying the charge / appealing appears to have the University as the contact point? Any thoughts on who to contact guys? My thoughts would be still to try PALS... https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/patient-and-visitor-information/patient-experience/patient-advice-and-liaison-service-pals-and-complaints/

Who will pass it onto to LPS, who will ignore your appeal. Hence why you never appeal private parking invoices as it is a waste of your time and energy.

Is it these who manage the Car park? https://www.localparkingsecurity.co.uk/

Hi Bank, completely understand the need to feed back re: your last message and the importance of it being a resource for everyone. I will update, wherever this journey takes me. Judy Cobbett sent an email rather than a written letter, which I can pdf. There is a confidentiality footer in it, would that still be ok to post? I just don't want to shoot myself in the foot. And as per your first post, it's not about protecting her necessarily, I don't want it to come back to sting me in court. I am happy to proceed though, I want to see this through to the end.

Ok. Reading around this forum about the steps involved taking a small claim in the county court. Identify all of your losses including any extra expenses you incurred travelling etc. Don't miss out a single penny. Monitor this thread for a further reply later on today

Not conflicting : 2 different issues. 1) Don’t go down the £300/letter and/or Illford vs Ilford route on their claim against you : don’t risk irritating the judge 2) Ways you can seek redress against them : DPA / SAR non-compliance. Potentially you claiming against them.

Instead of ranting about the system, follow the rules and use the system against the flecers... as above. Beat them in court, then after you've done that, initiate a GDPR claim against them... If they don't comply with the SAR, initiate a non compliance claim. As already mentioned, this takes time and effort and the vast majority of victims just can't be bothered. Don't see how you could "irritate the judge". We're talking about totally seperate legal actions.

You should acknowledge service as dx pointed out in post 6. Do it tomorrow. It costs you nothing, takes up 10 minutes of your time, and means you have 33 days from the issue of the claim form to file a defence rather than just 19 days. It's a common sense move to protect yourself. Until you have proper written proof from the horse's mouth that the claim has been withdrawn you need to act as if it's active. We've seen motorists conned this way before.