Backlash as top cop says pay your traffic fines or face further tax disc trouble

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A highways department policeman has hit back at scurrilous online reports that motorists need not pay fines that result from roadside cameras.

 

It was claimed online that these kind of fines could just be ignored.

 

Pol Col Ekkarat Limsangkat, a deputy commander of the highways department, told Thai Rath Online that the posts about not paying fines were an incitement to break the law.

 

It was not clear whether action would be taken against those responsible.

 

What was clear were Ekkarat's pronouncements on fines. He said that all fines - include those derived from cameras - had to be paid or tax discs could not be renewed.

 

The police send all unpaid fines to the department of land transport, he said. If fines were outstanding when tax was due to be paid it would be impossible to extend the tax disc.

 

A thirty day period would be given to pay the fine or fines still due.

 

If they were still not paid after that it would be impossible to get a tax disc for a year and a fine of up to 2,000 baht could be levied, he said.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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A member of the wife's family receives a speeding ticket on a regular basis. And has for years with no consequences.

 

Edited February 28, 20188 yr by missoura

A member of the wife's family receives a speeding ticket on a regular basis. And has for years with no consequences.
 

It's just a matter of time until the govt gets it's act together re centralised digital data and the tax disc will be withheld.

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14 minutes ago, bheard said:

It's just a matter of time until the govt gets it's act together re centralised digital data and the tax disc will be withheld.

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Agreed,  a lot of people are going to get a shock in years to come.

49 minutes ago, webfact said:

The police send all unpaid fines to the department of land transport, he said. If fines were outstanding when tax was due to be paid it would be impossible to extend the tax disc.

So now you will have drivers who didn't pay their fine, didn't get their tax so have no insurance. They think this helps?

7 minutes ago, Maverell said:

Agreed,  a lot of people are going to get a shock in years to come.

No they won't.....there will/are be so many outstanding infringements, that the RTP and LTD will have huge issues being able to manage this......

1 minute ago, ChrisY1 said:

No they won't.....there will/are be so many outstanding infringements, that the RTP and LTD will have huge issues being able to manage this......

 It will be no problem for the department of inactive posts to handle - in the next life.

The person who purchased my car and did not bother to change the book to his name (I gave all the paperwork and he had 1 month to do it before my visa expired, he did not bother and is now crying they wont accept my paperwork due to visa expired) will be pissed when he cannot renew the tax disc cause Iam no longer in Thailand so I guess the new person renting the house will just bin the fines!!

Edited February 28, 20188 yr by Techno Viking

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So now you will have drivers who didn't pay their fine, didn't get their tax so have no insurance. They think this helps?

Add no license to begin with.

All those who are stupid raise your right hand

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No want fine? Lower ur speed!

The trouble one has to go to to pay the fines is, imho, a problem. Nearby no ATM with relevant sticker, no account at KTB... so I go to Post Office... if it were more simple I would be very happy!!

Do the road side cameras capture the drivers face???  I leant my car to Somchai that day, not sure which Somchai.

They have been and are taking action. Few years back I was doing the annual registration on my truck and was informed I couldn't until a speeding ticket was paid in Bangkok. A camera got me there a year prior but I hadn't changed the trucks registration address (we moved) at the time so I just plain didn't know. I live up north so that was a pita fine to pay. 

4 hours ago, Lungstib said:

So now you will have drivers who didn't pay their fine, didn't get their tax so have no insurance. They think this helps?

 

Good point, and the reality is that the officials should emphasize the attached points when they comment.

 

Further, friends of my outer circle Thai family swap the tax / land transport sticker across vehicles if they travel outside of their home district, hoping that if stopped the cops will not realize the characters and numbers on the reg. plate don't match what's on the paper sticker.

 

And they claim the local head rtp honcho has told them it's OK to do this.

 

 

 

 

"The police send all unpaid fines to the department of land transport....."

 

That's what they call, "Passing the buck".  If they don't pay the fines, the BiB need to get of their behinds and confiscate the vehicles until the fines are paid.  Then release the vehicle, only on production of a valid insurance policy and tax disc.

4 hours ago, Maverell said:

Agreed,  a lot of people are going to get a shock in years to come.

To true,  as Thais mostly think rules and regulations just don't apply to them,

on many different levels. 

 

31 minutes ago, Moti24 said:

"The police send all unpaid fines to the department of land transport....."

 

That's what they call, "Passing the buck".  If they don't pay the fines, the BiB need to get of their behinds and confiscate the vehicles until the fines are paid.  Then release the vehicle, only on production of a valid insurance policy and tax disc.

 

Agreed, at lot of work but confiscating the vehicles would shake most folks and make them be more serious about these matters.  

Should just let 'mad axe lady' loose on their cars if they don't pay

yet they still let them sit in back of trucks, its gonna take a lot of dedication to get thailand running in a similar way to western countries, good luck to the GOV. any GOV. that is, cause it will have to happen at some time.

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4 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Agreed, at lot of work but confiscating the vehicles would shake most folks and make them be more serious about these matters.  

Especially if it was a Merc' ???

Sorry, German taxi.

Edited February 28, 20188 yr by overherebc

10 hours ago, Lungstib said:

So now you will have drivers who didn't pay their fine, didn't get their tax so have no insurance. They think this helps?

10% of the motobikes on the road here in BKK has no licenseplate at all, so they also can't get fines.

10 hours ago, missoura said:

A member of the wife's family receives a speeding ticket on a regular basis. And has for years with no consequences.

Probably hasn't had a tax disc for years either.

5 hours ago, Moti24 said:

"The police send all unpaid fines to the department of land transport....."

 

That's what they call, "Passing the buck".  If they don't pay the fines, the BiB need to get of their behinds and confiscate the vehicles until the fines are paid.  Then release the vehicle, only on production of a valid insurance policy and tax disc.

Wouldn't there have to be a law that allows the police to do that?

23 minutes ago, Thian said:

10% of the motobikes on the road here in BKK has no licenseplate at all, so they also can't get fines.

Where did you get that figure from, some survey been done?

What is a Tax Disc?

17 hours ago, wirat69 said:

The trouble one has to go to to pay the fines is, imho, a problem. Nearby no ATM with relevant sticker, no account at KTB... so I go to Post Office... if it were more simple I would be very happy!!

Don't break the law and you won't have to go to "the trouble" in the first place. Simple ... it's not rocket science!