According to the data shared by the car insurance company, the top 10 areas of car tax avoidance owed a total of £30,692,100 in unpaid car tax in 2020.

Belfast was found to be the worst offender for the avoidance of the tax with almost 40,000 drivers chased up for £5.7m worth of payments in 2020.

Birmingham saw the second-highest number of enforcement actions with 37,907 with Manchester taking the third spot with almost half of Birmingham’s number at 19,058. Between the two cities, drivers owed £8.5m in unpaid vehicle excess duty last year.

The areas which saw the lowest numbers of car tax evasion were the postcode areas with small populations, with West Central London, Shetland, and the Hebrides recording 216, 312, and 342 enforcement actions respectively in 2020. Combined the figure of unpaid tax reached £130,500.