Clive Gargan jailed for VAT offences after appeal

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Clive Gargan was jailed for 12 months for VAT offences by the Court of Appeal on 11 June 2024, with the final two and a half years of his three-and-a-half-year sentence suspended.

The court found that the fully suspended three-year sentence imposed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was too lenient and quashed it.

Gargan had pleaded guilty to eight of 84 VAT-related charges, comprising failures to file VAT returns and failures to pay VAT between 2009 and 2016.

The total VAT involved was €180,623.51; the court considered his repayment with interest, late plea and lack of previous convictions when reducing the sentence.