Transport for London (TfL) imposes £34.50 in green taxes.

Transport for London (TfL) has imposed £34.50 in green taxes on a vehicle that was part of President Donald Trump's motorcade during his State Visit to the United Kingdom in June.

The three £11.50 charges were levied on a Chrysler Suburban that drove ahead of President Trump’s limousine, 'The Beast', after the vehicle entered the city’s Congestion Charge zone, and TfL is currently trying to track down the vehicle’s owner to extract the charges.

The Congestion Charge was introduced by far-left mayor Ken Livingstone in 2003 to cut congestion and pollution, and is in effect within the London Inner Ring Road around central London, which includes the City of London, Westminster, and Buckingham Palace.

The U.S. embassy disputes that the United States owes any money, saying that while its staff 'conscientiously' pay any driving fines or penalties incurred in Britain, the Vienna Convention protects them from paying overseas taxes while working at a diplomatic mission.

An embassy spokesman said - 'Our position on the tax… more commonly known as the Congestion Charge, is based on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which expressly prohibits the taxation of diplomatic missions in this manner.'

'Our position is therefore wholly in accordance with that Convention, to which both the United States and the United Kingdom are parties, and it is a position shared by many other diplomatic missions in London.'

An unrepentant TfL claimed that the green tax is not a tax but a charge for services, and that foreign diplomats are not exempt, adding that it would 'continue to pursue all unpaid Congestion Charge fees and related penalty charge notices'.