Crackdown on Foreign Drivers Who Dodge Tax

The Government has announced that they will trial the sharing of data between HM Revenue and Customs, the DVLA and six police forces to ensure foreign vehicles that stay in the country longer than six months pay their share of motoring taxation and can be pursued to pay motoring fines.

The trial is being announced by transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin and will run from 3^rd November 2014 until February 2015. It aims to reduce the revenue lost through drivers using UK roads illegally and will ensure that such vehicles have a current MOT certificate and are therefore fit to be on the road.

Vehicles found to be on UK roads illegally will be impounded and subject to a £200 release fee.

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