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Tom McGurk makes €76,000 settlement with Revenue

Journalist and broadcaster Tom McGurk is included in the latest Tax Defaulters list
Journalist and broadcaster Tom McGurk is included in the latest Tax Defaulters list

Landlords, journalists, finance consultants, medical consultants, horse trainers and painter and tilers are included in the latest Tax Defaulters list published today.

Journalist and broadcaster Tom McGurk, from Bloomfield Avenue in Donnybrook, Dublin is also included in the list after he paid €76,588 for under-declaration of income tax. 

Meanwhile, Rima Productions Ltd, with an address in Sallins Co Kildare, made a settlement of €160,452 for under-declaration of corporation tax, VAT and PAYE/PRSI/USC.

According to the Companies Registration Office, Mr McGurk is a director of the company. 

The biggest settlement, for €3.278m, was with the now liquidated Westman Plant & Civils Limited, formerly of Clonberne in Ballinasloe in Co Galway, for under-declaration of VAT.

Horse trainer James Leavey, from Kildare Town, faced a settlement of €2.243m for under-declaration of capital gains tax.

And painter and tiler John Sheridan, from Kilcock Co Kildare, settled for €1.5m for under-declaration of income tax and VAT.

Three hospital or medical consultants also appear on the latest tax defaulters' list, all for undeclaring income tax.

Revenue has an ongoing investigation into hospital consultants who were incorporating their own companies to improperly reduce their tax liabilities.

John Laurence Kelly from the Consultants' Suites, at the Galway Clinic settled with Revenue for more than €200,000, Dr Imtiaz Ahmad from the Whitfield Clinic in Waterford settled for more than €100,000, and Eamonn Quigley - with an address in Houston Texas - settled for €43,000.

In each case the settlements arose from a Revenue audit.

Revenue said that the total settlement amount for the latest tax defaulters list came to €17,430,699.03.

Of these, 34 cases were for amounts exceeding €100,000, of which seven exceeded €500,000 and three of which exceeded €1m.