20 months for builder who evaded €500,000 tax over eight years

A building contractor who evaded €500,000 tax over over eight years has been jailed for 20 months by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Colm Perry (aged 44) settled €499,998 of unpaid income tax and VAT returns with the Revenue Commissioners last week, but has a further €925,000 of outstanding interest and penalties accumulated on the failed returns from 1996 to 2004.