Tax defaulters make settlements of €13m in just three months
A MEDICAL consultant and the owner of a Chinese massage business are among those to appear on the latest tax defaulters’ list.
They were just two of the 65 landlords, company directors, publicans and others who made settlements worth a total of almost €13million during the three-month period to the end of September.
Dublin-based massage therapist Guo-Hui (Tim) Li made a settlement of €49,090 to Revenue due to under-declaration of income tax.
Mr Li set up the business after moving to Ireland two years ago, and provides a range of Chinese massages from his address on Ballyditch Road in Ballyfermot.
When asked for comment on the settlement, he told the Irish Daily Mail that he believed he had been paying the correct amount of tax.
Meanwhile, medical consultant Miriam Casey, Stradbrook Lawn, Blackrock made a settlement of over €51,000 for under-declaring income tax.
A number of landlords were also included on the defaulters list, with Frances Rowan of Bridgefield Manor, Athy, Co. Kildare owing more than €563,000 due to under-declaration of Capital Gains Tax, after already paying money off some of the original amount owed of over €623,000.
Roscommon County Council also paid a settlement to Revenue of more than €456,000 following an under-declaration of VAT.
It is not the first local authority to be hit with a tax settlement, as Donegal County Council paid over half a million euro to Revenue in 2010.
Charity Ataxia Ireland also featured on the list, as it owes a settlement of almost €50,000 to Revenue due to under-declaring PAYE/PRSI.
It is no longer in operation and worked with people with ataxia, a condition which effects co-ordination and balance.
The board of the charity confirmed in May that it had ceased its day-to-day operations.
Ataxia Ireland told the Mail last night that it would not be commenting at this time.
The Ataxia Ireland board said earlier this year that it believed the charity ‘no longer has the trust of its members or the wider public, and this makes fundraising impossible both currently and into the future’, adding that its duties would be transferred to Ataxia Foundation Ireland.
Other companies included on the list were the Westenra Arms Hotel in Monaghan, which made a settlement of over €2.5million for under-declaring PAYE, PRSI, USI and VAT.
Plasterer Patrick Joseph Abbott, of Ard Na Greine, Tullamore, Co. Offaly still owed €1,850,000, as of September 30, for not declaring VAT.
And First Choice Financial Services in Lower Mallow Street, Limerick paid almost €70,000 for under-declaring PAYE, PRIS and USC.
A spokesperson for First Choice Financial Services declined to comment on the settlement last night.
Twenty-five of the settlements during this period exceeded €100,000, five exceeded half a million euro, and two exceeded €1million.
‘No longer has trust of its members’