Some of the figures are quite eye-watering - for example, the first scoundrel on the list, a Mr Brian Morton, apparently failed to declare a capital gain on selling some land, and was hit with tax of £1,845,958.24 and penalties of £922,979.12
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It's difficult to imagine how some of the amounts could possibly have accrued. For example, there's a Sergiu-Ionut Oniciuc, from Wembley, described as a `labourer', who between 6 April 2018 and 5 April 2021 managed to rack up a tax liability of £738,687.03, and penalties of £517,080.91. That means that he must have earned at least £1.5m in 3 years - I can only say that he must be a jolly hard worker.
It would be interesting to know how many of the people on the list have actually paid up. There seem to be a disproportionate number of scallywags with East European names, but I suppose if you can just return to Albania / Romania / Lithuania / wherever the chances of HMRC ever being able to enforce against you would be somewhere between nil and zero.
Hours (or at least a few minutes) of fun seeing if you can spot any of your chums ...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... defaulters