{"id":502678,"date":"2026-06-16T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:15:08","slug":"galway-plant-hire-group-makes-e110m-settlement-with-revenue-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502678\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway plant hire group makes \u20ac110m settlement with Revenue \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Galway-based plant and machinery group has made a tax settlement totalling more than \u20ac110 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revenue-commissioners\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revenue-commissioners\">Revenue\u2019s <\/a>latest tax defaulters\u2019 list has shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">LPS International Plant Limited, which has listed Michael Leonard as its sole director since 2016, agreed a settlement of \u20ac106.6 million in the first quarter of this year, with \u20ac106.2 million unpaid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mpl Plant Hire Limited, which has also listed Leonard as sole director and owner, agreed a \u20ac4.3 million settlement with Revenue, with \u20ac4.1 million still unpaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two settlements related to a Revenue investigation over under-declaration of VAT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both firms were placed into liquidation last year, with Grant Thornton overseeing the process. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In total, 21 separate settlements were registered with Revenue in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The majority of the cases were settled for fees between \u20ac101,000 and \u20ac500,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The only other settlement for in excess of \u20ac1 million was linked to John Reid, a landlord and solicitor based in Gorey, agreed a \u20ac1.7 million settlement, of which the entire fee is still unpaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Galway-based plant and machinery group has made a tax settlement totalling more than \u20ac110 million, Revenue\u2019s latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,11522,5066,80],"class_list":["post-502678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-revenue-commissioners","tag-tax","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}