Crackdown on tax defaulters nets €100m

THE Revenue Commissioners’ latest crackdown on tax defaulters has yielded over €100 million in unpaid tax, interest and penalties in the first three months of the year.

Revenue’s quarterly list of tax settlements, which was published yesterday, features 173 cases worth a total of €21m where tax defaulters were named and shamed. A further 2,680 settlements yielded €79m, but details were not published because they were worth less than €12,700 each.

The list includes a €106,000 payment from South Dublin County Council for VAT irregularities and a €1.6m bill for a Navan furniture company and its two directors. Also on the list is Denis Wilson, a retired medical consultant from Montenotte in Cork, who settled for €126,000. Dr Wilson is the father of actress Fiona Shaw. The settlement related to undeclared income and was one of Revenue’s bogus non-resident account cases.