Revenue plan - Taxman targets cagey Dubs

IT may be of little consolation to exposed tax dodgers living outside the capital, but the Revenue Commissioners are in the process of levelling the playing pitch.

Geographically, it has been easier, relatively speaking, for somebody living in Dublin to evade the scrutiny of the taxman, than it is for somebody living in Waterford or Monaghan, for instance.

This quirk was uncovered by an Irish Examiner analysis of all 2,122 tax defaulters named and shamed by the Revenue Commissioners from October 2001 to the end of June this year.