Consultant fined €30k for revenue offences

A consultant gynaecologist who failed to declare his income from his work with private patients and income from houses he was renting out was yesterday fined €30,000 for revenue offences.

Cavan circuit court heard Dr Ahmed Hussain had been paying tax on his work with the HSE looking after public patients. His barrister, Tom Fitzpatrick, said what happened did not involve the making of false returns, submitting misleading documentations or some sophisticated scheme of tax evasion. “He simply didn’t make returns in respect of private income,” Mr Fitzpatrick said.

The court heard for the years 1999 to 2006 there had been undisclosed income amounting to €1.7 million and the tax liabilities amounted on this to €1.5m of which €954k has been paid.