Courts remitted close to $90 million in fines last year, with boy racers benefiting the most.
Waikato experienced the most remittances at $6.1 million, half of which was completed wiped, imposing no alternative punishment.
About $2.4 million of this was substituted with community work, the rest constituting community detention, home detention and jail time, Fairfax reported.
About two-thirds of the remittances - $60 nationwide and $4.7 million in Waikato - were made up of speeding fines, driving a pink-stickered vehicle and for doing "burn-outs".
According to the figures, released under the Official Information Act, the number of remittances in the Waikato are up 50 per cent from $4m in 2009, Fairfax reported.