{"id":618453,"date":"2026-09-08T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:16:09","slug":"recruitment-consultancy-tops-latest-tax-defaulters-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618453\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment consultancy tops latest Tax Defaulters List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dublin-based recruitment consultancy firm has topped the latest Tax Defaulters&#8217; List from Revenue, with a total bill of just under \u20ac4.15m.<\/p>\n<p>Following an audit, Allen Recruitment Consulting Limited, with an address on Pembroke St Upper in Dublin 2, was found to have under-declared PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT to the tune of more than \u20ac2.4m.<\/p>\n<p>When \u20ac621,648 was added in penalties and more than \u20ac1.1m in interest, the amount owed to Revenue rose to \u20ac4,147,088.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount remains unpaid, with Allen Recruitment Consulting now in liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>The case was one of four included in the latest Tax Defaulters&#8217; List that involved sums of more than \u20ac1m.<\/p>\n<p>The latest list also includes a Belfast-based events concession provider, Central Fusion Limited, which is based at the Innovation Centre on the Queens Rd.<\/p>\n<p>A review identified that it had under-declared \u20ac828,516 in VAT. With \u20ac507,567 in penalties and \u20ac391,000 in interest added, the total owed rose above \u20ac1.7m.<\/p>\n<p>That has since been repaid in full.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Lawlor, listed as a landlord and PAYE employee with an address on Glasnevin Ave in Dublin 11, was found to have under-declared income tax following a Revenue investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The case identified \u20ac352,928 in under-declared tax, with interest and penalties increasing the amount owed to almost \u20ac1.29m.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of June, Revenue said \u20ac1.18m of that was unpaid.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile 3 Rockeco Limited &#8211; listed as a retail and exhibition display service provider based at the Clondalking Industrial Estate in Dublin 22 &#8211; which was found to have under-declared PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT following an audit.<\/p>\n<p>It had \u20ac549,292 in under-paid tax and, with interest and penalties included, the total owed rose to \u20ac1.266m.<\/p>\n<p>That amount has since been repaid in full.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Tax Defaulters&#8217; List includes 20 settlements cases, worth a combined \u20ac11.6m.<\/p>\n<p>Of that, more than \u20ac6.7m remained unpaid as of the end of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin-based recruitment consultancy firm has topped the latest Tax Defaulters&#8217; List from Revenue, with a total bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-618453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618453","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=618453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}