Tax dodgers set to avoid exposure

HUNDREDS of tax cheats will escape being named and shamed by the Revenue Commissioners when Finance Minister Brian Cowen changes the settlement limit at which they can be identified.

Tax defaulters who currently make settlements of over €12,700 are named every quarter in the list published by the Revenue Commissioners.

But Mr Cowen indicated yesterday that he plans to raise the settlement limit at which tax defaulters are named to somewhere between €25,000 and €50,000.