As soon as Internet services were launched, through which it is possible to pay fines for traffic violations in real time, service employees immediately began to be inundated with letters asking why the traffic police fine had been paid, but continued to be listed as unpaid.
Today the system is more or less debugged, but not fully improved, because often receipts paid through the Internet service never reach their intended destination.
That’s why every car owner should know how to report payment of a traffic fine to the traffic police via the Internet.
Why is the fine listed as unpaid?
It turns out that a lot depends on the service through which the fine for traffic violation is repaid.
This means that if you chose a little-known service, bank or other office to make the payment, then most likely the penalties will remain listed as unpaid.
According to the official website of the traffic police, currently the process of transferring information has stabilized, but in some regions of our country experts recommend making payments to the state budget through official services or national banks, such as Sberbank.
The principle of payment of a traffic police fine for violating traffic rules is simple:
- using the specified details, a certain amount of money is paid;
- the service that accepted your payment synchronizes with the GIS GMP and transmits this data to it;
- The treasury transmits information to the traffic police.
It is during this entire procedure that a failure may occur in the program of one of the “intermediaries,” as a result of which it turns out that the administrative fine, although paid, is still registered with the debtor.
Issuing fines and documents for the traffic police
Fines can be issued both in the presence of the driver at the scene of the incident, and without the direct presence of the owner of the vehicle or driver, which means that the owner of the vehicle can simply be notified by mail. At the time the offense was committed, there could have been another person driving your car by proxy, and the offense itself was recorded by a security camera. Having all the evidence recorded by the camera, traffic police officers draw up a report, searching the database for information about the owner, and then send a request to pay a fine. The letter must be sent to the offender with a notification, the postal employee will ask you to sign for delivery of such a letter, and the notification itself with your signature will be returned to the sender.
If you have no objections, then after paying the fine using the specified details, you must check whether your payment has been taken into account, and the payment receipt must be kept for two years. It happens that the paid fine according to the traffic police documents did not go through, which means that claims may be brought against the offender by the bailiffs.
We remove the paid fine from the State Traffic Inspectorate database
According to Article 32.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the banking organization and other services through which the fine is paid must immediately after this procedure transfer information about the payment to the GIS GMP.
In turn, Article 32.2 part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses states:
“A bank or other credit organization, a federal postal service organization, a payment broker that carries out activities of accepting payments from individuals or a bank payment agent (subagent) operating in accordance with the Federal Law “On the National Payment System”, which pays the amount of the administrative fine, are obliged, immediately after receiving the payment by the person brought to administrative responsibility, to send data on the payment of the traffic police fine to the State Information System on State and Municipal Payments, provided for by the Federal Law of July 27, 2010 No. 210-FZ “On the organization of the provision of state and municipal services.”
From this we can conclude that a failure during the payment of an administrative fine may occur at the stage of transferring information from the treasury to the traffic police. How then can you notify the State Traffic Inspectorate about the payment?
If you deposit funds into the state treasury through a bank, you will be given a receipt for this payment, which will confirm the fact of payment.
And in order for the traffic police to take appropriate action, you should contact the nearest State Traffic Inspectorate office at your place of registration and give them a copy of the receipt for payment of the administrative penalty.
In this case, employees make changes to the database, and the debt automatically disappears.
How can you notify inspectors about the payment of fines through the Internet portal? In this case, everything is much simpler. When making a payment using the service, Internet banking, the system will prompt you to print a receipt.
In the case when the payment is made through intermediary services and not a bank, the receipt is sent to the email of the person who makes the payment.
Next, you can either print out the fine payment document or save an electronic version of the check on your computer so that you can use it in the future.
How to send a receipt for payment of an administrative penalty to the traffic police?
Most car owners who often use Internet services to pay a traffic police fine know how to establish the fact of payment of an administrative penalty.
And for those who don’t know yet, we’ll tell you: you need to find in the search database the service through which you want to make a payment or just see if you have a fine (as a rule, these are the official websites of banks, the RSA service or the State Services portal) .
By going to the service’s website, you just need to provide some data (it all depends on the service program itself), and you will see data on penalties. As a rule, only unpaid fines are highlighted in the database.
And if you know for sure that just a few days ago you paid this particular fine, then what to do next, how to notify the traffic police officers about the payment?
There is nothing super complicated about this. You have two options to solve the problem:
- Go to the traffic police department nearest to your place of registration and provide them with a copy of the payment document.
- Send a notification/appeal to the email address of the State Traffic Inspectorate.
As for the first solution to the problem, we will not go into details, since everything is already clear. But let’s talk a little about the second option of notifying State Traffic Inspectorate employees about the payment.
What to do if the receipt is lost
According to the law (Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, Article 32.2), a person is not obliged to keep checks or receipts confirming payment of a fine. It is the bank that must send information to the traffic police that the money has passed through. But since sometimes the system does not work quite correctly, this information does not always reach the traffic police.
You can contact the bank and ask to verify the payment, but even this will not help prove it.
If you have lost your receipt and traffic police officers have not received information about payment within 60 days, then the inspectors draw up a document according to which the fine is multiplied by two, but in the end the amount should be no less than 1,000 rubles. After which the case is sent to the FSSP, which decides to pay a new amount. True, there is an alternative: penalties can be replaced by 15 days of arrest or 50 hours of compulsory labor.
If you decide to pay a double fine, then you have exactly 5 days from the date of the decision to do so. If you have not paid within the specified time, then they will look for you, after which an enforcement fee in the amount of 7% of the amount owed, but not less than 1000 rubles, will be added to the payment.
In addition, the FSSP can withdraw money from your account without permission. It is much less likely that your employer will pay the debt for you if the inspector decides to collect the debt from him. Therefore, it is better not to lose your payment slip and save it for the traffic police for at least 3-4 months.
Notification to the traffic police about payment
In order to notify law enforcement officers that you have actually paid the administrative fine issued to you, you need to go to the official website of the State Traffic Inspectorate, where in the right column at the bottom there will be a column “Acceptance of appeals,” which you need to select.
After this, the service will display information on how to correctly send a request, after reading which you can proceed directly to creating the request itself by clicking on the appropriate button.
Next, the service will prompt you to select the region to which you want to send your appeal. The sequence itself depends on the region.
Then you will need to enter your personal data in the following fields:
- applicant's initials;
- exactly how you want to receive an answer;
- telephone number where you can be contacted;
- text of the appeal;
- we add screenshots, a photograph or a scanned version of the receipt, which confirms the fact of payment of the administrative fine;
- enter the captcha.
Once all fields are filled in, you can create and send a request by clicking the “Submit request” button.
A month is allocated to process this request, during which State Traffic Inspectorate employees must take all necessary measures to remove the fine from you.
What should I do if, after paying through the State Services portal, the fine has not been written off?
Today, many car owners pay administrative penalties through Internet portals, without thinking that the programs may fail. But faced with the fact that after payment of penalties they are still listed as unpaid, any person will begin to get nervous.
As statistics show, there are a lot of cases where the fine was paid, but it is still listed on the unified portal of State Services. And this can be explained very simply.
After you have paid penalties using the unified State Services portal, a message appears indicating information that the funds are processed and transferred within 14 business days.
And only after the specified period has passed, the funds will be received for their intended purpose, and the debt will be automatically removed from the database. Payments often go through in fewer days. Therefore, if you have become a hostage in just such a situation, then you should not worry.
Presumption of innocence
Not a single regulatory document says that you need to take receipts with you. The process of transmitting information about received payments has long been automated. If the information is not received, police officers are required to check the payment manually. The driver does not have to prove his innocence in this case.
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It is necessary to explain to the police when and in which bank branch the money was transferred. If he starts threatening to arrest you for late payment, don’t be scared. The absence of a mark in the program is not proof that the driver has a debt. Inspectors do have the right to draw up protocols for delays under Part 1 of Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, but to do this they will have to document the violation of deadlines, which they cannot do. Perhaps the traffic police officer is putting pressure on the driver in this way - it wouldn’t hurt to turn on video recording on your smartphone. In some cases, this helps to immediately end the discussion.
From time to time, police authorities carry out operational and preventive measures “Debtor”. Its goal is to increase the number of administrative fines collected. During such raids, traffic cops most often begin to put pressure on drivers. If there really is no debt, you can promise the traffic police officer to bring the receipts to the traffic police department the next day. To be convincing, it is better to leave your cell phone number to the law enforcement officer. Usually the police lose interest in the driver if it becomes obvious to them that he is firmly convinced of his innocence.
What to do if the receipt is lost? Don't panic. Even a few months after payment, the bank may issue a document confirming the transfer of money. You just need to come there with your passport.
