A LARGE food business is one of seven Bradford-based companies and individuals named on the Government's list of tax defaulters in the UK for 2023.
Mumtaz Food Products Ltd was slapped with a penalty of £40,937.66 after failing to pay £89,972.89 of tax between April 2016 and March 2018.
HMRC’s Publishing Details of Deliberate Defaulters (PDDD) scheme provides information about people and businesses given financial penalties for failing to comply with tax obligations or deliberately filing errors in tax returns.
Details are published when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000, according to HMRC.
The list is updated every three months and the information is wiped after a year.
The full list of those included from the area in 2023 is as follows:
Mumtaz Food Products Ltd
Trade/occupation: Holdings Company
Address: Legrams Lane, Bradford
Period of default: April 1, 2016, to March 31, 2018
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £89,972.89
Total amount of penalties charged: £40,937.66
SD Prestige & Performance Limited
Trade/occupation: Buying and selling second-hand cars
Address: Formerly of Cottingley Terrace, off Valley Parade
Period of default: December 16, 2011, to December 31, 2021
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £167,822.79
Total amount of penalties charged: £104,576.58
Aero Asian Textiles Ltd
Trade/occupation: Textiles retail business
Address: Formerly of Lumb Lane
Period of default: April 6, 2020, to April 5, 2022
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £178,122.31
Total amount of penalties charged: £178,122.31
Thirsty Foods Ltd
Trade/occupation: Beverages (non-specialised) (wholesale)
Address: Victor Street, Manningham
Period of default: July 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £99,890.67
Total amount of penalties charged: £69,923.46
Fusion Foods (BFD) Ltd
Trade/occupation: Licensed restaurant
Address: Formerly of Leeds Road
Period of default: April 6, 2020, to April 5, 2021
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £95,901.22
Total amount of penalties charged: £95,901.22
Ephraim Zephaniah Fontaine
Trade/occupation: Bricklayer
Address: Lister Avenue, Bradford and formerly of Scoresby Street, Bradford
Period of default: April 6, 2019, to April 5, 2021
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £50,570
Total amount of penalties charged: £30,089.14
Jurijs Gailiss
Trade/occupation: Online marketplace trader
Address: Ranelagh Avenue, Greengates
Period of default: April 6, 2014, to April 5, 2020
Total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £35,484.28
Total amount of penalties charged: £14,932.24
On its list, the HM Revenue & Customs clarifies that those businesses and owners listed “may have changed their behaviour, may no longer be at this address, the business currently at these premises may have no connection to the listed business, and that while the business may be the same it may be under completely new management”.
The T&A asked Mumtaz Food Products Ltd and SD Prestige & Performance Limited for comments but received no responses.
Contact information for the other five on the list could not be found.
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