Limerick medical consultant tops Revenue tax defaulter list in €1.2m case

Revenue has published details of 25 cases settling for almost €8.5 million.

A Limerick-based medical service provider has topped Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters with a settlement totalling just over €1.2m.

Dr Kevin Hickey Unlimited settled an original outstanding tax bill of over €622,300 as well as just over €407,190 in interest and €186,693 in penalties. The revenue audit case was listed for the under-declaration of corporation tax, PAYE, PRSI and USC.

A separate entry on the list shows Kevin Hickey – listed as a medical consultant at the same address – as paying €598,761, again after interest and penalties, after under-declaring income tax.

In total, just under €8.5m was owed to Revenue from unpaid tax and resulting interest and penalty charges in the second quarter of the year, the latest figures show.

Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters – for the three months to the end of June – covers 25 individual cases, with money being still owed in 10 of the cases as of the end of June.

A total of 18 cases were for amounts exceeding €100,000. Of these, six were for amounts over €500,000 and three cases saw settlements exceed €1m.

The other two €1m+ cases refer to Carlow-based haulier Mary Colma Moore, who was hit with a €1.19m bill for the under-declaration of income tax, PAYE, PRSI, USC and Vat; and Dublin-based property developer Tuskar Property Holdings, which owed €1.02m, and which is in liquidation. 

Both of the latter two cases involve money still outstanding as of the end of June.

The latest defaulters’ list also includes Elaine Keogh, the Wicklow-based knitwear designer and retailer who trades as Lainey Keogh. 

Ms Keogh settled in full with Revenue for €122,533 after interest and penalties were added to a tax bill of €68,599. Her case referred to the under-declaration of income tax and Vat.

Two cases on the latest list related to persons or companies in Limerick, with two cases located in Cork.