Thomas Murphy pleads not guilty to tax offences

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Thomas Murphy has pleaded not guilty to nine tax offences at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, reported on 14 October 2015. The charges concern alleged failures to provide income, profit, gains or income-source returns for the years 1996/97 to 2004. The prosecution alleges that a man named Thomas Murphy applied for a herd number in 1991 at an address in Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, County Louth. Applications using that herd number were later made for agricultural grants totalling more than €100,000, the trial heard. The trial was continuing.