Dubliners least likely to be named and shamed on tax

Over the last nine years, the Revenue Commissioners have published the names of 4,961 people who have made settlements with them. Irish Examiner Business Editor Conor Keane examines the geographic and occupational breakdown

DUBLIN based taxpayers are the least likely to be named and shamed as tax defaulters by the Revenue Commissioners, an analysis of almost 5,000 settlements made with the taxman over the past nine years reveals.

Taxpayers in Kerry and Monaghan are the most likely to have their names published in the Iris Oifigiúil, the Irish State Gazette, by the Revenue Commissioners each quarter when they publish the names of tax defaulters where the settlement was in excess of €30,000, or €12,700 if pre 2005, and if the amount of fine or penalty included in the settlement exceeded 15% of the tax and where the taxpayer did not avail of the opportunity to make a voluntary disclosure.