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Dublin City Council to refund development liffey’s!
Dublin City Council is to refund 7m Euro it collected from developers for infra-structure it did not build. Developers had paid the money as contributions towards the regeneration of area around Heuston Station.
Dublin City Council had big plans for this area – a new urban quarter to link the city centre and Phoenix Park, and developers did too. The ??? side/site went for 80m Euro. Clancy Barracks was to be the location for 900 apartments and a hotel. But unconditioned, the developers chipped in for public infrastructure. It would improve the area and would make their projects more valuable.
The plan was to build two new bridges across the river Liffey – one for motorists and one for pedestrian and cyclists. They were to link this quarter with the new river terrace on the site of the bus station. But the bus station still stands. And Bridges were never build. Some of the private developments were built but not to the scale first envisaged. However, there is a little bit of good news for the developers and in some cases their creditors. Once seven years passes since the special development contribution has paid if the infrastructure that was supposed to fund hasn’t been build, the money must be refunded. So ??? and the receivers for the Heuston South Quarter and the Clancy Quay projects will between them receive 7m Euro in refunds over the next five years. Dublin City Counsel may yet regenerate this area but it will be on a more modest scale than the plan’s made during the boom years ?? O’Sullivan RTE news.
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Scottish News STV Fraudster behind £10m money laundering scam on most wanted list
The Scot, who just joined the list of most wanted tax fraudster and suspects Michael Voudouri from Bridge of Allan. The businessman was convicted of money laundering, more than ten million pounds. He went on the run before he could be sentenced at the High Court. Voudouri is now believed to be in Northern Cyprus. ??? go somewhere with an extradition treaty with the UK. Ten new names have been added to the rugs gallery, first published last year. The government says that collectively those identified cost the exchequer 600m£ in lost tax-revenue. The chancellor has been watching tax men and women preparing to get their hands on the tax evaders. He hopes the list will yield tip-offs from the public.
Exciseman’s blaring out a threat, ‘The message to people who evade their taxes is very clear – we are coming to get you and we will catch you.’
But there are questions about how effective all of this is. When it was first published there were twenty names on the most wanted list, but nineteen of them remain at large. Labour has called the project a huge failure.
Female politician’s nagging at all, ‘That is clearly not enough for the government to pose the names on a website… and faces on a website and consider that being the job done. They clearly have to do the follow-up? of action.’
The treasury says that the conviction rate for tax cheats has risen and the HMRC says the list has yielded fresh intelligence on the future tips. Along with Voudouri, two other Scots are named. Malcom McGowan from Melrose was involved in smuggling 56m cigarettes worth 60m£. He has been sentenced to four years in prison in his absence and is thought to be in Spain. The 60-year-old Grodon Arthur from Barrhead is being accused of smuggling Alcohol and cigarettes worth 15m£. He broke bail and run off thirteen years ago and is now believed to be in the United States with Elisabeth Tazy, reportedly ?? on so he’d been working in Glasgow. HMRC has asked anyone with information on the most wanted to call crime stoppers.
David Cowan STV News