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.
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