Hartlepool man among those fined almost £1m after HMRC swoop

These are the business owners in the North East that have just been named and shamed on the Government’s list of tax defaulters.

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 scheme flags up when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000.

The Government body says that it is necessary to publish the details of those that do this in order to act as a deterrent on those flouting the rules.

In the region, four individuals have been named – with one of them failing to pay the correct tax over a seven-year period.

Between them they have managed to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of money into the system, while other companies and individuals have.

The HMRCs list is 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.

A former Hartlepool man has been fined almost £1 million for not telling HMRC about a huge boost to his income.

Brian Morton, who used to live at Fairstone Lodge, in Sheraton, Hartlepool made £1,845,958.24  between Apr 2012 and 5 Apr 2013, but has been fined £922,979.12 for not declaring ‘income from a capital gain’.

He was named in the HMRC’s latest list of deliberate tax defaulters, which is updated regularly as a register of offences and fines.

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And among the most recent additions to the list are:

New Ship Pub Ltd

Business, trade or occupation: Public house

Address: 403 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 8DG

Period of default: 1 Apr 2016 to 30 Sep 2017

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £33,181

Total amount of penalties charged: £16,839.33

Navid Rostaie

Business, trade or occupation: Online trader

Address: 132 King George Road, Harton, South Shields, NE34 0ET

Period of default: 6 Apr 2014 to 5 Apr 2019

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £234,078.08

Total amount of penalties charged: £131,083.71

Michael Blench Haulage Ltd

Business, trade or occupation: Haulage

Address: Lilac Cottage, Hornby, Near Great Smeaton, Northallerton, DL6 2JH

Period of default: 1 May 2019 to 31 Jul 2019

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £30,000

Total amount of penalties charged: £13,650

Victor-Petrut Opariuc

Business, trade or occupation: Builder

Address: 487 Welbeck Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 2PB and formerly of 107/6 Barn Park Crescent, Edinburgh, EH14 3HP

Period of default: 6 Apr 2018 to 5 Apr 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £63,306.22

Total amount of penalties charged: £34,343.62

Simon Lee Snowball

Business, trade or occupation: Café, formerly trading as ‘Quay Ingredient’

Address: Formerly of 4 Queen Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3UG

Period of default: 1 Feb 2014 to 30 Apr 2018

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £153,436.90

Total amount of penalties charged: £88,226.12

Samuel David Petch

Business, trade or occupation: Construction, trading as ‘Sam Petch’

Address: 2 Princess Drive, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0AG

Period of default: 25 Jul 2020 to 31 Aug 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £43,553.09

Total amount of penalties charged: £43,553.09

Jack Wilkinson

Business, trade or occupation: Construction trading as ‘J Wilkinson’

Address: Formerly of 47 Leven Road, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, TS20 1BG

Period of default: 10 Aug 2020 to 31 Aug 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £43,033.09

Total amount of penalties charged: £30,123.16

A.C.T Construction Services Ltd

Business, trade or occupation: Construction

Address: The Fold, Warden Law, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne & Wear, DH5 8LX

Period of default: 1 Jul 2012 to 30 Jun 2016

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £25,657

Total amount of penalties charged: £12,187.06

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Ilhan Gilgiler

Business, trade or occupation: Takeaway trading as ‘KJ BBQ House & Pizza’

Address: 3 Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4AN

Period of default: 1 Dec 2016 to 19 Sep 2017

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £25,925.12

Total amount of penalties charged: £18,147.58 

Darren Pierre Phillips

Business, trade or occupation: Sandwich manufacturing and sales formerly trading as ‘Northumbrian Sandwich Co’

Address: Formerly of Unit 1/2, Newcastle Enterprise Centres, Lynnwood Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE4 6UL and Central Kitchen, Elliott Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE4 6UP

Period of default: 6 Apr 2010 to 5 Apr 2019 

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £67,661.54

Total amount of penalties charged: £36,706.33 

The Pizza Master Ltd

Business, trade or occupation: Takeaway formerly trading as ‘The Pizza Master’

Address: Formerly of Unit 1, Askew Road West, Low Teams, Gateshead, NE8 2PW

Period of default: 1 Apr 2015 to 31 Jan 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £90,940

Total amount of penalties charged: £43,970.27

Vickram Singh

Business, trade or occupation: Landlord

Address: 8 Claypit Close, South Shields, NE33 1TH

Period of default: 6 Apr 2020 to 5 Apr 2021

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £51,405

Total amount of penalties charged: £20,690.51

Kieran David Read

Business, trade or occupation: Constructionm formerly trading as ‘K Read’

Address: 42 Verity Walk, Harrogate, HG2 9QE 

Period of default: 1 Jul 2020 to 31 Aug 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £43,033.09

Total amount of penalties charged: £43,033.09

Future Renewable Solutions Ltd

Business, trade or occupation: Energy solutions

Address: 6 Biddick Village Centre, Washington, NE38 7NP

Period of default: 1 Jun 2020 to 31 Aug 2020

Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £46,666

Total amount of penalties charged: £32,666.20

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