2020-07-31
Company director jailed for €50k tax fraud
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Credit: Collins) A company director who created bogus invoices to avoid paying nearly €50,000 in tax has been jailed for six months. Judge Martin Nolan said Power could have cooperated with Revenue and avoided prosecution. "With Revenue, if you come clean at the start of the process, you will not be criminally prosecuted," he said. "For his own reasons, this defendant ignored that chance." The judge said it was a sizeable sum of money and merited a custodial sentence.