Government Name & Shame.

[Yorick]

Had no idea this sort of thing existed, but it's cool

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... defaulters

[ChrisW]

Phew.

[KungFooBob]

One of my local curry houses owes £28k!

[Bigjawa]

I know somebody on it!

[DefTrap]

There's a high proportion of both obvious foreigners and / or takeaways.

[Count Steer]

There's a high proportion of both obvious foreigners and / or takeaways.

+ building trades.

(I expect quite a few people in the building industry said 'Uggber it' and went home over the last couple of years saying 'If you want your tax, come and get it').

[Mussels]

I was expecting HMRC to be listed.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Haha...I recognise the name of number 2, think I've seen there vans about.

[Yambo]

There's a high proportion of both obvious foreigners and / or takeaways.

If a politician said that it would be immediately labelled racist . . .

Just saying, like.

[Count Steer]

Haha...I recognise the name of number 2, think I've seen there vans about.

£2M. Impressive! (Mine dew, the penalties are impressive too. It looks like they actually owe £600k, £1.4M is the penalty charge ).

[David]

Haha...I recognise the name of number 2, think I've seen there vans about.

£2M. Impressive! (Mine dew, the penalties are impressive too. It looks like they actually owe £600k, £1.4M is the penalty charge ).

The way I read it, the penalties are on top of the debt shown.

[Count Steer]

Haha...I recognise the name of number 2, think I've seen there vans about.

£2M. Impressive! (Mine dew, the penalties are impressive too. It looks like they actually owe £600k, £1.4M is the penalty charge ).

The way I read it, the penalties are on top of the debt shown.

Could be, I didn't pay too much attention but the penalties are still pretty fruity though. Probably irrelevant/cosmetic too. A lot of the people - particularly in construction - on the list will routinely declare bankruptcy almost as part of their normal business cycle.

Not going to pay £600k? have a penalty...which you probably won't pay either. It's a bit like the old days, go overdrawn because you're skint, bank writes you a letter to tell you you are overdrawn and charges you £20 for the letter. Now you're more skint and more overdrawn than before.

One thing the penalties do is bump up the figure that the department claims it is chasing, which can't do any harm when it comes to pitching their staffing budget.

Cynical? Moi?

[David]

Cynical? Moi?

Surely not......