Getting a ticket must be a pain in the neck. In Australia, the price of a ticket is often hundreds of dollars.
But have you ever thought that one day you might be glad that you paid your ticket …
The $1, 210000 ticket suddenly dropped from the sky
Like many overseas Chinese friends, Mr. Li has a bad habit: not reading the mailbox in time, or throwing letters directly.
A lot of times until the mailbox is full of overflow, will open to take a look. Because most of them are junk advertising letters, some Chinese friends often "lose patience" with these letters and throw them directly when they see them.
Lao Li is such a "Madahar," not to fill the mailbox, never open; even if open, also a casual glance to throw away.
One day in June last year, as before, Lao Li began to clean up his mailbox once a month.
In addition to a pile of colorful flyers, there is a stack of white letters. He looked at it casually, didn't see why, and threw it all into the wastebasket.
The result did not expect, this throw, threw away more than one million yuan!
Here's the thing.
In the past decade, with the popularity of Airbnb, Lao Li, with several houses in his hand, began to "follow the fashion" and changed his house into a residential rental for tourists to make money.
The business-minded man also secretly turned his idle basement into a tailor's shop, making a lot of money over the years.
But he has also received frequent complaints and warnings, but there has been no "big thing", Lao Li did not take it seriously.
(photo source: Real Estate Weekly)
In June last year, the buildings Bureau also issued a ticket to him, but because Mr. Li did not understand the English ticket, it was a big deal to pay the money. Mr. Li, who was not present at the hearings on Aug. 7, was fined more than $70, 000. Now that the six-year complaint period has passed, Mr. Li is still ignoring it. On Tuesday, the fine tripled and jumped to $210000.
(photo source: Manhattan court file)
But this time, "by chance", Lao Li did not read the letter, missed this hearings.
This is good, originally only a few thousand yuan fine, suddenly doubled, because repeatedly ignore the warning was sentenced to a fine of 70, 000 dollars!
This is not over, Lao Li to the 70,000 still ignored, has been delayed to half a year now …
On Tuesday, the court finally gave up on the "no-read" Chinese, tripling the $70,000 fine.
210000 dollars!
It is reported that the city government has also sent the penalty notice to the court to deal with, if Mr. Li has not paid the money, the court may send the owner information to a special collection agency, the consequences are very troublesome.
Incidentally, another Chinese was forcibly evicted from his home seven years later by police after deliberately refusing to pay for the $4793 dispute over water charges.
Now, his real estate has been returned to the city of government, reserved real estate, auction will be used to reimburse water charges.
It is true that overseas Chinese have experienced a similar situation. Because of the change of address, or the sudden return of the incident or the lack of language, the initial ticket was ignored. Not only did the amount of the fine and the late payment become more and more like snowballs, but at the end of the day, they were unable to enter the country. It was only when prosecute was arrested or directly arrested that the court was already wanted for itself! In the end, there's more to it than it's worth.
2. Transport and bonded sources of delay
For Australian partners, taking a few tickets in daily life may also be unavoidable.
In particular, driving friends, parking, illegal, speeding, even running a red light can be fined from local law enforcement agencies, and then ask you to pay as soon as possible.
In the new state, for example, online payments are dedicated to dealing with late payments. It makes it clear that you will pay different amounts of late payment when you pay the late penalty again. However, if you choose to ignore these tips, the police will take a series of enforcement actions to prompt you to pay as soon as possible.
These include auctioning your property, asking your employer to deduct your fine, suspending your license or cancelling your vehicle registration if driving, and, more seriously, taking you directly to court to check your finances.
This is not alarmist. Mr. Zhang, from Sydney, received A $383 in fines for inadvertently running a red light at VICTORIA RD in Ryde, northwest of the country. Because he happened to return home, he was inadvertently prepared to return to Australia before paying the fine. When the fine is one month overdue, it will pay an extra A $100 in late payment.
And he keeps getting text messages reminding him that if he doesn't pay later, he'll freeze all his vehicles and stay out of the road until he pays off his arrears!
And many Chinese are not familiar with self-tax returns are also the disaster area of late fines. The Inland Revenue Department issues an average of about 800000 tickets a year. The annual filing deadline is Oct. 31 and could be fined A $210 a month if it is delayed until it is capped five months later with a fine of A $1050.
Similarly, if you drive in Melbourne, you will have to pay a normal toll and some extra fees after you take the paid Citylink highway. So you usually get a bill, too.
However, if the bill is overdue, the management fee will be paid in accordance with the extent of the overdue payment. Victorian police will also issue infringement notices, with a $161 fine of $161 for each travel day from the day the bill goes into effect.
(photo source: linkt.com.au)
The Australian government promised to crack down on all kinds of fines in arrears five years ago. Finally, a group of private debt collection companies were successfully recovered to recover the 850 million unpaid fines owed at that time. It is expected that this initiative will be implemented regularly in the future.
More importantly, these unpaid fines may also affect your visa! Some netizens smile said, do not pay the fine to take the world map of the family directly erase Australia mainland can …
It's not that simple. Overdue tickets have not been handed over, after a certain number of court will be on behalf of the recovery responsibility, if convicted by the judge, "black history", then the chances of applying for a new visa will be greatly increased!
Traffic Administration and Immigration Office will also record your illegal records, as a good faith record accompanied by your life!
3. Take it seriously and protect yourself.
For Chinese in Australia, it is common to ignore tickets because of poor English. Many Chinese have been receiving English letters or e-mails but choose to ignore, the last small things become big, finally received court subpoenas to regret nothing.
So if we encounter a similar event, how should we deal with it correctly?
The first, of course, was to pay the fine on time. If you confirm that you should be fined for your behavior, there are quick web-based processing channels all over Australia. You can handle tickets as easily as online shopping.
But if you are confused about your ticket or even know how it happened, don't worry. Take the most common traffic penalty as an example, the ticket will definitely indicate your illegal date, why, and the specific reasons and standards for your violation, driving license points, the amount of the fine and the deadline. You can check yourself carefully first.
If the facts of the violation exist, but the circumstances are minor and the violation is the first time, you may consider a complaint for exemption. This generally has a good chance to change to "warning Warning". But if you feel that you have no idea why you are being punished, you can also make an online complaint to get justice for yourself. Since Australia has also seen fraudulent ticket fraud, complaints can also confirm the authenticity of the ticket.
If your traffic ticket is wrong, or if you wish to be pardoned for special consideration, all state complaint websites can accept your complaint in a timely manner.
The complaint website in Victoria is: https://online.fines.vic.gov.au/Request-a-review,
The complaint website of the new state is: https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/fines-and-fees/request-a-review.
Finally, it's valuable to be a law-abiding citizen in Australia, and if it's not your fault, you'll have to defend yourself.
In any case, if you receive a fine, you must attach great importance to it. If you have language problems, you can immediately seek help from others. Must not procrastinate again and again, cause irretrievable consequence.