It doesn’t matter when exactly the money is collected within this period – even if most companies debit their receivables relatively promptly. When asked, an employee of the company that operates the paid parking lot in Halberstadt wrote in writing that an error was to blame for the delayed debit. According to the employee, direct debit files for the parking lot were not processed correctly: “Since the amounts involved were small, the statute of limitations was far from over and the intended use is clear, I decided to catch up on the direct debits.”
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The company has now ensured that such delays could not occur again, it is said.
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