Kerry tax defaulters top €100m list

TAX defaulters in Kerry topped the table in Revenue’s list of settlements that was published yesterday.

The county was home to 22 of the 173 major settlements in the three months to March. Dublin was next on the list with 16, while Cork and Galway featured highly with 13 tax defaulters each.

The settlements that were published brought in €21 million of the €100 million collected in Revenue’s crackdown during the quarter. A further 2,680 cases fell below the €12,700 threshold for publication. These were worth a total of €79 million.