Former accountant avoids jail after admitting tax return offences

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Kevin Tucker pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to failing to file tax returns between 2002 and 2011. The court heard that a Revenue investigation found he had not filed returns since 2002, despite records showing personal and business income. Judge Martin Nolan imposed a suspended one-year sentence, saying imprisonment would be unjust in the circumstances.

The court heard Tucker had repaid a large portion of the tax due but still owed €81,650. He was not charged with tax evasion; the offences concerned failing to make returns. The report said his child’s serious health problems and eventual death coincided with the period of the offences.