Tax Defaulters List

D

dewdrop

Registered User
Messages
1,298
Media reports re above with phrases "paid out" , "had to pay" etc suggest that the tax has been paid to the Revenue. My understanding that this is not the case. Hopefully i am wrong.
 
Up until a few years ago your name wasn't published until/unless you had paid.

This meant that if you stonewalled the auditor and made it take years to quantify the tax, and then refused to agree the penalty, and then acted the maggot about paying the tax (by not having anything accessible for Revenue to attach the debt), then you could either avoid publication for a good few years, or indefinitely.

Meanwhile the other sinners who played ball, and paid up, got named and shamed...

Also, if you look at the list, some of the companies are in receivership or liquidation, so the money may never be collectible - should that mean that they don't get published?

Hardly fair was it? Didn't exactly encourage cooperation with the process.
 
My point is, and i am probably a bit confused, is that most media reports suggest by their reporting that the tax has been paid whereas this may not be the case.
 
dewdrop said:
My point is, and i am probably a bit confused, is that most media reports suggest by their reporting that the tax has been paid whereas this may not be the case.
Click to expand...

It's the terminology that causes confusion... normally a 'settlement' means reaching an agreed position or at least one where two parties to a dispute achieve some sort of common ground. In this case the references are only to the agreed amount due... as a recent story involving one of our elected representatives showed, the 'settled' bill was a couple of million but it isn't likely to be paid back for several hundred years!
 
Thanks Rob Oyle and i agree re the terminology. However RTE said " a supermarket owner has had to pay £1.59m to Revenue. To me the word "had" suggests the money has been paid but obviously i am wrong in this assumption.
 
Here i go again on this subject. Irish Examiner says this morning that 22.6m euros were paid to Revenue. This could not be more clear and apparently is incorrect. Why does the media continue to give this clear impression of tax payment?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top