Selection for scan buses

Municipality of Rotterdam

Scan buses of Taxes Rotterdam use automatic license plate recognition. With this they track down vehicles of Rotterdam residents with outstanding tax assessments.

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General information

Theme

Economy

Begin date

01-2006

Contact information

14010

Link to publication website

https://algoritmeregister.rotterdam.nl

Link to source registration

https://algoritmeregister.rotterdam.nl/p/Onzealgoritmes/53761720551735607

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Tracking down vehicles of taxpayers using a scan bus with license plate recognition.

After the tax bailiff has checked, the vehicle will be seized by means of a wheel lock and registered in the RDW register. This notification in the RDW ensures that the vehicle is administratively seized. A so-called registration blockade, which prevents the vehicle from being transferred to another owner.

Considerations

Taxes Rotterdam has been awarded the Warm Collection certificate and will always look for a suitable solution together with the taxpayer. Humanity is applied where possible in order to collect the outstanding assessment(s).

Human intervention

The tax bailiff always first carries out a check (in RDW and other systems) whether seizure is permitted. Seizure of movable property by the tax bailiff can only take place after the collection strategy has been followed.

Risk management

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Legal basis

Collection Act 1990 and the Code of Civil Procedure

Elaboration on impact assessments

Privacy risk analysis has been performed. This has shown that a privacy impact assessment is not necessary. This is a low risk algorithm application.

Operations

Data

RDW, ANPR, Tax system,

Technical design

The municipality of Rotterdam levies and collects municipal taxes. In order to do this better, we use scan buses. These scan buses have an automatic license plate recognition and thus track down vehicles registered in the name of Rotterdam residents who still have to pay taxes. This does not happen just like that, it only concerns Rotterdam residents with tax assessments that are in the seizure phase. This means that he or she has received multiple reminders, but has not yet paid.

If the scan bus scans a vehicle that qualifies, a signal goes off in the bus. A tax bailiff checks whether the report is correct based on the most recent available information about the owner of the vehicle. He or she can then decide to seize the vehicle. The vehicle is given a wheel clamp and registered in the RDW register. This report ensures that the vehicle is administratively seized. This leads to a so-called registration block, which means that the vehicle cannot be transferred to another owner.

We draw up the report of seizure and serve this on the address of the owner of the vehicle (the taxpayer). When the owner of the vehicle pays the amount in full, we remove the wheel clamp and cancel the notification in the RDW register. Does he not pay the entire amount, but only part of it? Then we remove the wheel clamp, but the notification in the RDW register remains active. Does the owner not pay or respond at all? Then the vehicle is taken to the storage of the car recovery company after 28 days. If the owner does not respond to this, the vehicle is sold after 5 days via an external car auction. The proceeds of the vehicle, minus the costs incurred, are deducted from the amount that the owner still had to pay.