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Vehicle excise duty evasion statistics: 2013

Statistics on unlicensed vehicles 鈥榠n traffic鈥� and 鈥榠n stock鈥� and the revenues lost through vehicle excise duty evasion.

From:
Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Published
5 December 2013

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In 2013:

  • an estimated 0.6% of traffic on roads in Great Britain was driving without a valid tax disc
  • the estimate for Northern Ireland is 0.7%, not significantly different from the Great Britain figure
  • VED evasion could have cost around 拢35 million in lost revenue in Great Britain in 2013/14
  • some of this revenue will have been recovered through DVLA enforcement activity or through vehicle keepers back-licensing their vehicles
  • VED evasion is estimated to have decreased slightly since 2011

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