A property development firm has topped the latest Revenue tax defaulters list, after it reached a settlement of €6.7m with the tax collector.
Vieira Limited, which is now in liquidation, and which has an address at Pepper Canister House, Mount Street Crescent in Dublin 2, was found to have under-declared VAT during a Revenue audit.
It owed €2.4m in tax, a further €3.6m in interest, as well as €721,972 in penalties.
As of the end of September, €6.1m of that had gone unpaid.
It is the largest case listed in the latest defaulters list, which covers the third quarter of the year.
In total 36 settlement cases are listed, with €15m the total amount deemed due by Revenue.
The next largest case related to Semadazio Limited, a restaurant trading as Il Vulcano, with an address at High Street in Westport, Co Mayo.
Its settlement was €451,425, with €170, 352 of that tax, €154,842 interest and €126,231 in penalties.
The case was revealed by a Revenue investigation and involved under-declaration of corporation tax, PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT.
In another case, Finbar Kelly, a steel erector from Kilcavan, Geashill in Co Offaly settled for €445,107.
The case arose from a Revenue tax audit involved under-declaration of income tax, PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT.
While Edward Kennedy, a coal retailer/merchant from Pearse Street, Gorey in Co Wexford, was found to owe €438,617 because of the non-declaration of solid fuel carbon tax and under-declaration of VAT, following a Revenue investigation.
Also listed is former Fianna Fáil junior minister, Ivor Callely, who is described as a motor vehicle dealer, with an address at Howth Rd in Killester in Dublin 5.
He owed €172,937 following a Revenue audit case that revealed an under-declaration of VAT.
The money, made up of €111,478 in tax, €28,115 in interest and €33,344, had been paid to Revenue by September 30th of this year.
Mr Callely was jailed for five months in 2014 for fraudulently claiming mobile phone expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.
In 2018 he was given an eight-month suspended sentence after admitting he repeatedly ransacked a GP's waiting room.
He served as Minister of State in the health and transport departments between 2002 and 2005 and was later appointed to the Seanad where he remained until 2011.
