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New fine collection scheme
Posted 1 year ago
Fri, Apr 27th, '12 - 8:10 am
Hastings-Quinte has come up with a way to get hold of some of the multi-millions of dollars in outstanding provincial fines.
The outstanding fines at provincial offences court have ballooned past $10m, including the $7m the province down-loaded years ago.
Hastings County treasurer Sue Horwood says Belleville, Quinte West, and the county will put the unpaid fine on the offender’s tax bill. But she says it’s not “money in the bank” since they can’t collect the money until the property is sold or goes to tax arrears.
Horwood says the “pilot project” will get underway in the next month or so.
I’m all for fines and encouraging people to follow the rules… but putting people on the street, homeless, over a fine? Seems very extreme. Surely there are better ways.
So the city will add the fine to the address shown on the ticket. Here’s hoping you haven’t bought a house from a person with unpaid fines. Same goes for landlords whose tenants (past & present) have unpaid fines. Since you’ll only find out once your house is sold, you’ll only have a matter of hours to get the “error” fixed. That sounds cheap. Or you could just pay someone else’s ticket, which could be $5,000 if it was for driving without insurance. Sounds fair. Tough on Crime Rules!!!!
So, if there is an outstanding fine applied to your property taxes, and you pay the taxes less the fine, are you now in arrears? Good point Mark regarding the landlords etc. This is an idea that sounds good in theory but ridiculous in fact.
So they can do this to anyone, or only people on their tax role? And what if it was someones child, now the parents get stuck with the unpaid bill? I can see my lawyer having a field day in court if the county tries this.
Common sense says that they will only be able to do this is if the offending person that has not paid there fines is actually a property owner. You just can’t attach this to random property owners or landlords.
I’m sure they didn’t think of any of those complaints. Now they’re going to have to hire their own lawyer to solve all of these problems.
WOW people are dumb on here.