Two North East businesses, including a Darlington farm, have been named and shamed by HMRC for hundreds of thousands worth of unpaid tax between them.
HMRC publishes details every three months of people and businesses given financial penalties for failing to comply with tax obligations, or deliberately filing errors in tax returns. The latest list was published on Thursday, March 26.
Details are only released when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000 of tax. In each case, they failed to fully disclose their default to HMRC at the outset of an investigation.
A total of £129,123.83 of defaulted tax was racked up by a Darlington farm- Dromonby Bridge Farm.
Formerly of 18 Merrybent in Darlington the farm defaulted the tax between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019.
Dromonby Bridge Farm Ltd was served a penalty of £71,018.10.
Meanwhile, joiner John James Ivison, connected to an address on Lunebeck Walk in Thornaby is listed for defaults between April 6, 2021 and April 5, 2024.
He racked up £40,278.20 of defaulted tax and was served a penalty of £26,784.98.
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Kevin Hubbard, HMRC's Director of Individuals and Small Business Compliance, said: "We are actively tackling tax non-compliance among high street businesses across the UK, and today's namings show we will act wherever we find it.
"Everyone on this list had the opportunity to come forward to make a full disclosure – and didn't. HMRC will always pursue those who deliberately refuse to pay what they owe."
The information above was listed on the government website on the day this story was published.
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