New revenue default list: is tax evasion a crime ?

[cyberianpan]

RTE
Revenue publishes defaulters list

27 June 2006 20:19
The Revenue Commissioners has published its quarterly tax defaulters list, which includes the largest-ever settlement made in the history of the State.

There were 150 names published who paid up a total of €55.5 million.

It is clear that some people in this country are systematically & deviously evading tax.

Tax evasion is a crime in name, very rarely if ever prosecuted. Why not ?


cYp

[diablo]

the words republic and bendy yellow fruit spring to mind

[rockofcashel]

Absolute disgrace.

The one thing I'll give the Yanks, is that if these guys owed the IRS money like they do here, they'd be spending time in a pair of orange pyjamas, enjoying Bubba's company.

To paraphrase Garth Brooks "We got friends in high places"

[toffeebhoy]

Too many Irish people are all to quick to say 'arra fair play' to someone who cheats the system out of millions in tax revenue, but at the same time they get all oiled up and righteous about housing for single mothers or asylum seekers.

This is why Charles Haughey had a state funeral.

[DSCH]

Because tax evasion is an offence against the bureaucracy, and is therefore not a crime in the historical or "natural" sense.

[commentator]

Given that he Govt. sopends money in a disgraceful way evasion is a moral duty whatever about its legal standing.

Pay tax if you want to subsidise the creation of an underclass.

[stalins granny]

They couldnt send the tax evaders to prison because then the fianna fail tent at the galway races would be empty.