Almost €17m recouped in unpaid tax in last three months of 2015

Hotelier’s €2.3m tops list of individual payments

Revenue recouped nearly €17m in unpaid tax in the last three months of 2015, with a Galway-based hotelier’s €2.3m settlement topping the list of individual payments.

The latest quarterly tax defaulters’ list, published yesterday and covering the three months to the end of December, showed a 60% quarter-by-quarter increase in the number of settlement cases to 107 and €16.67m being paid after interest and penalty charges were added.