Best-selling author Darren Shan makes 2.1m settlement with Revenue
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Best-selling author Darren Shan makes 2.1m settlement with Revenue
"But the Revenue Commissioners also found his tax details to be a page turner. It found that he owed €1.44m for the under-declaration of income tax. It added €271,000 in interest and a further €432,000 in penalties to the bill he owed the taxman. It brought the novelist's settlement with Revenue to more than €2.14m. The amount has been paid in full, according to the latest list of tax defaulters."
"The Revenue Commissioners lists Mr O'Shaughnessy's occupation as a company director, landlord and novelist. He is a director of two companies in Ireland - Stackallen Investments and Home of the Damned. The latest set of publicly available accounts for Stackallen Investments show that at the end of March last year, it had nearly €1.3m worth of investment properties on its books. They are understood to include a commercial business unit bought by the company in 2019."
Darren O'Shaughnessy (Darren Shan) owed €1.44m for under-declared income tax. Revenue added €271,000 in interest and €432,000 in penalties, bringing the total settlement to more than €2.14m, which has been paid in full. Revenue lists his occupations as company director, landlord and novelist. He is a director of Stackallen Investments and Home of the Damned. Stackallen reported nearly €1.3m in investment properties at the end of March last year, including a commercial unit bought in 2019. Home of the Damned's accounts describe activities covering publication, production and exploitation of intellectual property related to books.
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