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Well-known Wirral wine bar owner named as tax cheat

Marion Thompson has been ordered to pay more than £43,000
Wine bar owner Marion Thompson
A wine bar owner from New Brighton has been ordered to pay more than £43,000 after deliberately defaulting on her taxes.

Marion Thompson is well known across Wirral as both the brains behind Tallulah’s Wine Bar and the woman who brought donkey rides back to the seaside resort.

But her nightspot in Victoria Road is among the latest tax cheating businesses to be named and shamed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

According to official data provided by HMRC, she was fined £11,978 on taxes of £31,112, for the period between May 2010 and October 2012.

Tax dodgers eh?

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Oh dear,does this endanger the survival of the sanctuary or is it not linked?

taxman is the real thief here.

Did HM Government get listed as a tax cheating business (think it is listed in companies house)--plenty of its members were on the fiddle.

Even Government departments get CCJ's, how much of a hypocrite are the government. Makes me sick......they should name and shame themselves W**kers

http://freepdfhosting.com/0bc536f60d.pdf

EDIT - Further more, they are just out to get every penny possible from us.

For me I was late filing a tax return - £100 quid fine

I forgot to SORN my Audi coz its Fooked - £1000 fine

I PX-ed My sons old corsa as he bought a new one last December. Couldn't find the log book so didn't infor DVLA - £100 Fine

Parking Tickets, Council Tax, Fines, I'm fed up of the lot. i bet that woman didn't even owe the tax, they just picked on her because she worked out of the country for 7 years.

It's a disgrace! The only guilty party here is the tax man! Really makes me angry.

Revolution!

If she was CEO of a multi-million pound Corporation, she could have owed a lot more £££££ and got a slap on the back for it!!

So, what's your complaint? The rules are clear and you failed to follow them.

she was liable for tax payments and did not pay them..... she has earnt the money so no reason to not pay

deserves all she gets

Get your act together Ase71,save yourself some money.

No, the guilty party is named in the article.

Like it or not, we all have to abide by the rules. Most workers have no choice but to pay taxes, why should the owner of a business be any different?

Financing a shed load of rescued donkeys and ponies isnt cheap. I wonder if money essential for that just got diverted to it a few times from the tax jar , until it just got out of hand. Sometimes there are circumstances which make non payment of tax bills not acceptable, but understandable. Would have little patience with ordinary tax evaders with no decent explanation, but Im saving my wroth for the likes of Google,Starbucks , Amazon , Facebook and a myriad of other big companies who get away with murder taxwise.

Another Conformer of shit legislation designed to rip us all off

Quit moaning; if you don't want to conform to the rules, use your vote to try to change them or go and live somewhere else.

I tend to agree with ASE71 about certain legislation designed to rip us all off
or
to benefit those with the most money (companies and individuals)being able to avoid paying taxes by various legal loopholes and other means.
Who allowed these loopholes etc to be created but various governments whose mps (and their friends) doubtlessly benefitted from.
Close the loopholes


As regards Tallulahs horse sanctuary is it registered as a charity and could donations to it have been offset against taxes

I absolutely agree, Derek. My problem is with those who pick and choose which laws they obey. Ultimately the way to change laws is with the ballot box. I have no sympathy with anyone who, by design, ignorance or foolishness incur penalties which they need not. The laws are clear; we must obey them or risk the penalty.

I used to work for her then went on to purchase a night club from her, 3 months later the doors where locked on me as she owed a mass amount of money in rent arrears. She's great with front of house, but business sense, there isn't any!

Must cost alot to keep the donkeys alive off season.

You really think tax laws benefit those with the most money?

You do understand the concept that the top 1% contribute more than 30% to the overall tax income!? Who the feck does that benefit.

I wager that the bottom 30% contribute less than 1% except, I guess, the tax they are forced to pay on their little luxuries!?

Apologies for going slightly off topic

I have said nothing about those that pay their proper tax amounts
only about those that avoid and evade through various ways lawfully or not. A decent government should have been able to close these loopholes or get someone in who could do it.
In fact I think it has now come to the point where the rest of the world are now looking at sorting it out

What is the Difference Between Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion?

Tax avoidance is the legal way of reducing one's tax bill by using a number of accounting methods to achieve this. Tax avoidance methods usually involve complicated ways in changing one's business structure through incorporation, establishing an offshore company in a tax haven, or even deducting tax for materials or equipment use. The company also fully discloses this information to the tax authorities.

Tax evasion is an illegal way of reducing one's tax bill. This involves deliberately misrepresenting or concealing the true state of their affairs to the tax authorities to reduce their tax liability, and includes, in particular, dishonest tax reporting.


Switzerland is thought to have attracted more than £1.3tn (€1.5tn, $2tn) in offshore deposits and has come under close scrutiny over the last few years.

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