Ok, what if the non-resident does not pay? How does California enforce it?
This is like my friend who visited South Africa and drove around the country for 3 weeks. When he came back to New York, a week later, he received an official letter from the South African transportation department informing him that a speed camera near Capetown caught him speeding and he had to pay about $100 via credit card on their government website.
He refused to pay and tells me he’s never going back to South Africa. That was 2018. How’s the South African government going to come after him.?
To paraphrase Andrew Jackson’s “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
California has sent out their tax bill, now let them collect it.
I’ve gotten the same. I got nailed by a red light camera in Switzerland ($250) and a speeding camera in France ($110). In both instances I paid because I intend on going back. Otherwise, forget it.
“He refused to pay and tells me he’s never going back to South Africa. That was 2018. How’s the South African government going to come after him.?”
Key is to never, ever, go back. Friend that lived in Switzerland and moved back to the US went back a couple of years later. Checked into hotel, and within a couple of hours the gendarmes showed up, threatening arrest if he didn’t immediately pay a speed camera ticket he wasn’t even aware of from his prior residence.
Well when that happens in Canada your US State license is pulled.
How’s the South African government going to come after him.?
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Probably by trickling trickling across our Southern border.
A speeding ticket? He’s lucky he wasn’t strung up and field dressed by Mandela’s fellas.
He should have sent them Monopoly money.
Back in the mid-90s I did some consulting work in a Central American country. A few months after I was done, I got a tax bill from that country for several thousand dollars. I figured I could put the money to better use than they were likely to, therefore I never paid. I’m not planning to visit or work in that country ever again, so no worries.
> He refused to pay and tells me he’s never going back to South Africa. That was 2018. How’s the South African government going to come after him.?
They will send a black ops team of Vuvuzela Commandos. Torture is mild in comparison.