Retail giant Sports Direct is trying to stop a retrospective Revenue Vat audit of its online sales to Ireland, describing the potential probe as a "stalking horse" and attempt to gather evidence of fraud or neglect to support a potential tax assessment.
It started with a farmer, three bank accounts and a steady stream of unexplained lodgements. It ended in the High Court, where the files told a story no one else would.
The tax authority has launched High Court proceedings against the former majority owner of the Press Up group.
Doors and windows company, DK Windows, caused a stir when it collapsed last December with over 200 customer orders on its books.
New data sheds light on the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process, revealing low uptake, mixed outcomes, and surprising patterns in jobs saved — as well as the limited role of Revenue’s veto.
Aoife Quinn is in a tax dispute with Revenue over monies drawn down from “bogus” employment contracts with three Russian companies in 2011 and 2012. The daughter of former billionaire Sean Quinn says the money was used in the family’s court battle with IBRC.
As more multinationals choose Ireland to centralise European Vat payments, discrepancies held up the release of corresponding statistics for months.
Revenue's notice of appeal in the Getty case was described by the Tax Appeal Commission as “vague, unnecessarily repetitious, and/or not reflective of a point of law capable of forming a question for the High Court”.
Companies in the investment group have been falling like dominoes as a garda investigation into alleged criminality at the business continues.
The Revenue Commissioners has repaid the Irish arm of collapsed payments group Wirecard millions of euros in withheld corporation tax.
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