Stop urging jail for tax cheats, says group boss

PEOPLE should stop baying for the jailing of tax cheats, urged the president of the Irish Taxation Institute Suzanne Kelly at the group’s annual dinner in Dublin last night.

Ms Kelly said common media gripes of tax cheats walking free while the poor go to jail for social welfare fraud misses the point.

The common view is that cheats are "just white-collar criminals, stealing from society and robbing their neighbours".