Courts / Dublin / Report
Former property developer remanded in custody pending sentencing for failing to pay over €1.56 million in taxes
Summary
Alan Miller, 68, a former property developer, was remanded in custody pending sentencing for failing to pay over €1.56 million in taxes. He pleaded guilty to six counts of failing to file VAT, income tax and capital gains tax returns, and to filing incorrect returns, covering the period 2003‑2009. Miller had sold parts of a renovated property on Capel Street, netting €6.2 million, but now has no income or assets and has been denied a state pension. The bank is foreclosing on his family home. Judge Mary Ellen Ring adjourned the case for an updated probation report. Miller's solicitor was later convicted of theft. Miller has suffered multiple illnesses, including prostate, lung and skin cancer, suspected brain cancer, gout and depression, and has attempted suicide twice. He has been described by community leaders as a quiet, industrious, good‑hearted family man who helped disadvantaged members of the Jewish community.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Former property developer remanded in custody pending sentencing for failing to pay over €1.56 million in taxes. Charges or matters: six counts of failing to file returns for VAT, income tax and capital gains tax, and also filing incorrect tax returns, on dates between 2003 and 2009. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- January 30 Adjournment
- December 2012 Hearing Or Sentence
- 2003 and 2009 Other
- 2003 and 2006 Other
- 2003 to 2006 Other
- 2006 and 2009 Other
- 1993 and 1998 Other
- 2014-12-04 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Charges: six counts of failing to file returns for VAT, income tax and capital gains tax, and also filing incorrect tax returns, on dates between 2003 and 2009 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The father-of-four with an address at "Sans Souci", Kilgobbin Road, Stepaside, Dublin 18, will be sentenced on January 30 next at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Mr McGinn said Miller's solicitor was struck off the register in 2008 by the Law Society following a number of complaints, and was later sentenced to two years in prison in 2012 for stealing €1.6 million of a client's money.; Judge Mary Ellen Ring adjourned the case for an updated probation report which she requested as a matter of urgency.
Places mentioned
- Kilgobbin Road
- Capel Street
- Dublin
- Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
- God's hospital
Topics
Related court reports
- Man charged with having 56k child abuse images and videos remanded on bail
- Ex-Dáil hopeful's allegations against former employer 'complete fantasy', WRC told
- Mater must pay €10k to worker who said he was wrongly accused of abusing patient
- 'I think we know I won't be getting bail' - Daniel Kinahan charged with directing criminal organisation
- Letting agent who claimed alleged domestic violence victim abandoned tenancy by fleeing to refuge must pay €14.7k
- 77-year-old with 470 convictions told Luas staff to 'f**k off'
Help us improve this report
Your request is saved for the newsroom's next review. It does not immediately change the published report.
Prefer email? Send a correction request.