Large Bradford food business named on Government’s 2023…

Large Bradford food business named on Government’s 2023 list of tax defaulters

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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