{"id":503198,"date":"2026-06-16T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:53:08","slug":"cork-tax-defaulters-make-settlements-with-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503198\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork tax defaulters make settlements with Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A publican, a solicitor\/partner, and a company director\/landlord from Cork are among those listed in the latest list of tax defaulters published by Revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Revenue published 21 settlements in its latest list, with the overall value of these settlements totalling \u20ac117m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork publican Paul Montgomery, who owns Clancy&#8217;s and JJ Walsh&#8217;s in the city centre along with the newly-opened Wilton Bar, was involved in a level 2 risk review case for the under-declaration of capital gains tax and local property tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Montgomery was ordered to pay \u20ac351,256 in total, comprising \u20ac196,237 in tax, \u20ac96,148 in interest and \u20ac58,871 in penalties, which was paid in full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking to  The Echo, the publican, who is listed as a company director and landlord by Revenue, said the case related to a calculation error dating back to 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It was an error from several years ago that was spotted in a general audit, but we have paid the total back in full,&#8221; Mr Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Cork solicitor and partner was the subject of a Revenue audit case for the under-declaration of income tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Colm McGuire, with an address at Laurentic, 4a Knockrea Park, Douglas Road in Cork City was ordered to pay a total of \u20ac160,778. The amount, which has been paid in full, was made up of \u20ac89,024 in tax, \u20ac45,047 in interest and \u20ac26,707 in penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Cork-based geophysical and metocean surveyor was also included on Revenue&#8217;s list. Green Rebel Marine Limited, with an address at Crosshaven Boatyard, Point Road in Crosshaven, was the subject of Level 2 risk review for the under-declaration of corporation tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The company was ordered to pay a total of \u20ac128,557, comprising \u20ac97,253 in tax, \u20ac2,128 in interest and \u20ac29,176 in penalties, which was paid back in full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Topping the list was Galway-based LPS International Plant Limited, now in liquidation, which was ordered to pay over \u20ac106.6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The plant sales company, with an address at Knockdoe in Claregalway was the subject of a Revenue investigation case for the under-declaration of Vat. The amount, which remained unpaid as of March 31, 2026, comprised \u20ac46.2m in tax, \u20ac14.2m in interest and \u20ac46.2m in penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A publican, a solicitor\/partner, and a company director\/landlord from Cork are among those listed in the latest list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,61,60,15229],"class_list":["post-503198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503198","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=503198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}