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A North East pub landlord has been named and shamed by HMRC over deliberate tax defaults involving more than £145,000.
Graham John Richardson, trading as The Pelaw Inn on Shields Road in Pelaw, Gateshead, appears on HMRC's latest list of deliberate tax defaulters.
HMRC publishes details of people and businesses which have received penalties for deliberate errors in their tax returns or deliberately failing to comply with their tax obligations.
HMRC can publish information when it has carried out an investigation and charged one or more penalties for deliberate defaults involving more than £50,000 in tax.
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According to the HMRC list, Mr Richardson's defaults involved £145,765.02 in tax and resulted in penalties totalling £72,882.48.
The defaults cover several periods, from April 6, 2020, to April 5, 2023; July 1 to September 30, 2023; and January 1 to March 31, 2024.
HMRC lists his trade or occupation as a public house and gives The Pelaw Inn, Shields Road, Pelaw, Gateshead, as the published address.
Under section 94 of the Finance Act 2009, HMRC may publish information about deliberate tax defaulters once the relevant penalties have become final.
However, HMRC stresses that the figures published relate to the tax or duty on which qualifying penalties are based and do not necessarily represent the taxpayer's full default.
It also warns that those named may since have changed their behaviour or moved from the address given.
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A business currently operating at a published address may have no connection with the person named, while a business using the same name could now be under completely new management.
HMRC does not publish details where a person earns the maximum possible reduction in their penalties by fully disclosing their defaults.
Details can remain published for no more than 12 months from the date they first appear.
* The information is from a tax defaulter list published on October 2, 2026.