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The Revenue's latest tax defaulters list names 20 parties, including landlords, company directors and PAYE employees, who owed the State tax collectors money between April and June. The largest settlement was by Allen Recruitment Consulting Limited, a liquidation recruitment agency, which owes €4.15 million in unpaid tax, interest and penalties. Other notable defaulters include Central Fusion Limited, a catering supplier, and 3:rock, a printing services provider.
Tax defaulters’ list named 20 parties that owed the State tax collectors money between April and June Landlords, company directors and PAYE employees are among the people and companies that made the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters.
Photograph: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie Landlords, company directors and PAYE employees also made the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. The largest settlement fell on Allen Recruitment Consulting Limited, a recruitment agency in liquidation with an address on Pembroke Street Upper inIt made a settlement of €4.15 million to Revenue as a result of its “under-declaration” of tax and VAT, the document shows.
Within this total sum was just under €2.5 million in unpaid tax, €1.1 million of interest and €620,000 in penalties. The entirety of this remains unpaid, Revenue said. Ronan and Conor Burke: ‘Suddenly, every financial institution needed a solution to a problem we had spent years preparing to solve’Provisional liquidators were appointed by the High Court in November after the business fell into difficulty.
An expansion into seven countries across Europe proved unsuccessful and the money loaned to do so was unrecoverable, the court heard. Recent filings from the company include a liquidator’s statement from August 17th that shows Allen Recruitment Consulting paid Revenue €50,628 between December 2025 and March 2026 for VAT refunds. The second-largest settlement – at €1.73 million – was owed by Central Fusion Limited, a Belfast-based company that supplies catering and concession stands for events across Ireland and Britain.
It has an address on the Queen’s Road. The company owed some €820,000 in tax, €400,000 in interest and just over €500,000 in penalties to Revenue. A “compulsory liquidation” petition for the company has been lodged by the British tax authorities in a Belfast court, which is due to be heard next Thursday. A printing services provider called 3:rock, which specialises in brand signage, owed Revenue €1.27 million for its under-declaration of tax and VAT.
Established in 1993, it now has an address in the Clondalkin Industrial Estate. Michelle Lawlor, a landlord with an address on Glasnevin Avenue in Dublin 11, owed Revenue €1.29 million and €107,000 of this settlement has been paid. The settlement was a result of a Revenue investigation case, the State tax body said, for an under-declaration of income tax.
The remaining 16 parties on the defaulters list owed more than €3 million between them, with settlements in their name ranging from €85,000 to €560,000. Among them was Brian Harrison, a medical doctor with an address on Claremont Road in Dublin 18, who owed Revenue just over €100,000 for the under-declaration of income tax. He established HiTech Health, which manufactures cell and gene therapies, more than a decade ago.
Company filings for the financial year that ended on December 31st, 2024, show the remuneration shared between the companies two directors, Brian and Paula Harrison, was slightly under €180,000. The company reported €835,000 in profit that year.
David Ho, with an address in Saint Aidan’s Drive in Goatstown, Dublin 14, a retired travel agent who operated the Sino Irish Travel Club, which had an office on Morehampton Road in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, owed Revenue just under €500,000 for under-declaration of income tax. None of this has been repaid, Revenue said.
Landlord and taxi-driver Stephen Preston of Moyclare Park in Baldoyle, Dublin 13, owed €120,00 for non-declaration of VAT and under-declaration of income tax, while farmer Michael Corrigan of Kinnity in Birr, Co Offaly owed €161,000 for non-declaration of capital acquisition tax. In a statement, Revenue said: “These published settlements reflect only a portion of all Revenue Compliance Interventions.
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