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The £15 Victims Fund Levy?
Is this legal? Can you really be forced to pay this on top of fines?
Can you refuse?
Why should we all be made to pay into a Victims Fund when if policing was carried out properly there would be no need for one!
Funding for Victims?
Not paid by me it isnt!
The government should pay out of its own coffers - which we have also paid into - if it wishes to compensate people for being a victim of crime.
But what I asked was: Is it legal and binding or voluntary that you are arm twisted into paying?
Well well, thats the thinking is it?
I dont see why anyone who breaks the law - be it a speeding fine or otherwise - should have to pay into the victims fund.
And for all your information - the answer is no. Compensation is definitely not on my mind. I have been burgled numerous times, as well as other crimes committed against this family - but at no time did I ever think to seek compensation.
Compensation isnt free. Someone somewhere is paying.
I am so dead against this £15 levy to the Victims Fund. I
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It is legal if the Government say it is.
Anyone who has to pay a fine must pay the £15 victim surcharge. Failure to do so can lead to bailiffs and, in theory, short imprisonment!
It is a very cheeky indirect tax, I agree. Of course, indirect taxes are a tax on choice - someone chooses to commit a crime so morally I don't find this disturbing. But yeah, the victim fund should really be paid for from central funds, not levied on crime. I agree.
It is only payable on top of fines, though. Not fixed penalties. Discharges, community orders and so on don't count.
But yeah, it's legal. And it's definitely enforceable.
Source(s): Practising Barrister - Kimmie CraigLv 41 decade ago
honest law abiding tax payers shouldn't have to pay towards the victims fund - those who break the law should.
it is a necessary fund, i am sure if you were a victim of crime, you would be the first to demand compensation
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The funding for victims is vital and those who choose to break law that is in place for everyone needs to recognise they could them selves be a victim.
