Medical consultants cough up €23m in unpaid taxes

Revenue secured €23m from medical consultants in unpaid taxes last year, a jump of 44%.

The swoop was part of special investigations of risky sectors, including construction, the rental market, and the licensed trade.

The €642.5m raised from the compliance investigations fed into an overall collection of €45.79bn by Revenue in 2015. This represented the fifth successive annual increase in returns to the exchequer and the second biggest on record.