The latest tax evasion list names defaulters from Wales including a tax agent and a barber. A person or business appears on the list if they have deliberately defaulted on more than £25,000 in tax.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) says publishing the names is "about influencing behaviour by encouraging defaulters to engage with HMRC". Before updating its list HMRC gives each defaulter an opportunity to argue why their details should not be released.
The UK Government department removes a defaulter's details after 12 months. Below are the Wales-based names on the list, which was last updated on June 21.
Martyn Arthur
Martyn Frank Arthur, an accountant from Porthcawl, defaulted on £35,295.65 between April 2015 and April 2016. The 71-year-old former Inland Revenue employee, who wrote a 2009 book called The Taxpayer Strikes Back on dealing with tax investigations, has been ordered to pay a penalty of £22,236.25.
Mr Arthur, of Bryneglwys Gardens, was handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence in 2020 in a separate case. Cardiff Crown Court had heard the self-employed tax adviser who "knew the system inside out" cheated HMRC out of £120,000 between 2008 and 2013. He was ordered to pay back £63,000 after he was found guilty of cheating the public revenue by submitting inaccurate tax returns. The court heard he had tried to derail the investigation into him by keeping incomplete records and by bullying and threatening HMRC staff when questioned. He used multiple accounts and moved money between them to cover his tracks.
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Nigel Price
Cardiff hairdresser Nigel Philip Price failed to pay £28,781.63 in tax between April 2015 and April 2020 while running Nigel's Barber Shop in Caerphilly Road, Birchgrove. HMRC has handed him a penalty of £22,305.74.
Farook Jhurry
Farook Jhurry dodged £65,554.60 in tax between April 2017 and April 2020 while trading from the Fountains bar and cafe in Mostyn Street, Llandudno. The 74-year-old has been fined £40,971.62.
It is not Mr Jhurry's first legal issue. In 2015 a High Court judge ordered him to pay music licensing organisation Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) £7,882 in music licence fees and £10,000 in legal costs after playing music illegally at his bar, the Daily Post reported at the time. And in 2006 he was fined £200 after a trading standards sting caught him selling 7.5% strength White Ace cider to a 15-year-old girl at his Chocolate Box shop in Mostyn Avenue.
Earlier this year a repossession notice appeared on Fountains' front door and Conwy council confirmed its alcohol licence had been surrendered. The Grade II-listed site was sold at auction in May for £453,000. This week the new owner submitted an application for a premises licence.
Daniel Griffiths
Daniel Jack Griffiths, of Yscuborwen in Tredegar, evaded £37,230.26 in tax between April 2018 and April 2021. HMRC has hit the dry-lining specialist with a penalty of £24,758.11. Mr Griffiths told WalesOnline he is 22 years old and that he struggled to fill in his tax returns because he has dyslexia. He said: "I've been in and out of work... I don't know what to do. I'm lost. It's been really stressful."
He claimed he offered to pay the debt at a rate of £200 a month, adding: "They said it wasn't going to be enough so I just left it. The letters have stopped which is why I'm so surprised [to be on the list]. I've got £40 to my name. My phone broke and I haven't had money to pay for a new one."
Bradley Morgan
Bradley Paul Morgan, a bricklayer from Neath Port Talbot, defaulted on £26,042.16 in tax between April 2019 and April 2022. Mr Morgan, of Wern Road in Ystalyfera, must pay a penalty of £17,318.02.
Other defaulters from Wales
HMRC's current list names other defaulters from Wales whose details we included in this report. The list is updated roughly every three months.
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