SIX businesses across the North-East have been named on Government list of tax defaulters – with them being charged around £225,000 in penalties.
HMRC has published the details of those businesses given financial penalties for failing to comply with tax obligations or deliberately filing errors in tax returns.
HMRC’s Publishing Details of Deliberate Defaulters (PDDD) scheme flags up when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000.
The list is then updated every three months and the information is completely wiped after a year.
The information below is listed on the government website on the day this story was published.
Below are the companies listed by HMRC:
These are the businesses that have been named and shamed by HMRC on both March 19, 2020 and November 16, 2020
Meng An ZenTakeaway (formerly trading as Hong Kong Sha Tin)
Business, trade or occupation: Takeaway
Address: Formerly of 45 Chatham Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8QQ
Period of default: June 1, 2017 to December 18, 2018
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £47,469
Total amount of penalties charged: £25,751.93
Tony’s Parmesan House
Business, trade, or occupation: Takeaway
Address: 33 Beaumont Road, North Ormsby, Middlesbrough, TS3 6NN
Period of default: 6 Apr 2012 to 5 Apr 2016
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £43,665.71
Total amount of penalties charged: £25,252.81
Caterpak Limited
Business, trade, or occupation: Catering and food supplies
Address: Double Row, Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, NE25 0PP
Period of default: 1 May 2011 to 31 Jul 2017
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £143,864.20
Total amount of penalties charged: £59,389.02
Komal Balti
Business, trade, or occupation: Takeaway and restaurant
Address: 4 Brentford Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 3DH
Period of default: 1 Jun 2013 to 30 Nov 2016
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £107,610
Total amount of penalties charged: £82,834.59
George Thomas
Business, trade, or occupation: Haulier
Address: Formerly of Faceby Manor Lodge, Carlton in Cleveland, Middlesbrough, TS9 7DP
Period of default: 6 Apr 2010 to 5 Apr 2015
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £41,676.55
Total amount of penalties charged: £14,331.35
Craig Bewick / trading as ‘Donkins’ and ‘The Inn Place’
Business, trade, or occupation: Public house and income from property
Address: 1 Blind Lane, Silksworth, Sunderland, SR3 1AU and Knollside Close, Sunderland, SR3 2UD and formerly of 13 Anthony Road, Sunderland, SR3 3HG
Period of default: 6 Apr 2010 to 5 Apr 2014
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £51,888.13
Total amount of penalties charged: £21,185.40
‘We are able to publish the names of those penalised’
A spokesperson for HMRC said: “We are committed to making sure people pay the tax they owe.
“For the minority who refuse to pay, HMRC has a range of tools available and we are able to publish the names of those penalised under civil procedures for deliberately defaulting on certain tax obligations.
“This is about influencing behaviour by encouraging defaulters to engage with HMRC.”
