well are you saying they shouldnt have to pay it back but go to jail instead? Do they not have to pay interest/fines etc? It costs money to put people in jail
It is not worth the cost of sending them to jail, increase the fines
For what crimes would you send people to jail? Any crime that is not white collar?
Ruam
A point to remember but some of these people have made genuine mistakes for whatever reason e.g. interpretation of tax law. Do these people deserve to go to jail as well.
A friend of mine who worked as an Inspector of Taxes told me that there are a lot of genuine cases who make common errors depending on the class of industry that they work in.
Revenue dont put people who made genuine mistakes on the defaulters list - this list is people who deliberately defaulted. My sources in Revenue tell me that when in doubt, you get left of the list i.e you are only included on it if they are absolutely sure you defaulted purposely - this is because they are worried about being subject of a defamation claim from someone who made an honest mistake.
This is not true.
Revenue issue audit letter. Client thinks all is well so don't make a voluntary disclosure (put hands up and admit mistake/wrongdoing). Revenue comes out and says that something is wrong and an underdeclaration of tax has been made - often RCT issue in construction companies. Because no VD was made client can end up on list. I've seen it happen many times.
A week for every thousand? So if someone defrauded 3,000,000 that would be 57 years in jail. Hardly makes sense.
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