AN INDIAN restaurant in Witney has been named and shamed by the government for unpaid tax.

The business has been fined more than £79,000.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publish a full list of businesses and people who have not followed the tax obligations or have tried to dodge paying the fee by deliberately making errors in tax return forms.

Shaan Restaurant on Corn Street, which used the business name Golden Crest to file tax, has been outed on the list for its deliberate evasion over a five year period – from 2010 until 2015.

The current list was published earlier this week on the HMRC website and will be updated in the next three months.

All the information is wiped after a year by the government, who say that specific laws means it can't reveal any more details about the default.

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It can only publish the business or company name, the address it was or is trading from, the amount of unpaid tax, the fine given to the company, the timeframe of the offence and any other direct details about the business.

Under the same law, details can only be published when a business or company has been officially charged with the deliberate act and has been given a penalty for tax of more than £25,000.

The below entry is specific to the dates listed and was accurate at the time of print:

Name: Golden Crest

Business trade: Restaurant

Address: Formerly of 12 Corn Street, Witney, OX28 6BL

Period of default: June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2015

Total amount of tax/duty on which the penalties are based on: £127,375.78

Total amount of penalties charged: £79,862.87

Other information: Formerly trading as 'Shaan Restaurant'.

The full list of deliberate tax defaulters can be found at gov.uk/government/publications/publishing-details-of-deliberate-tax-defaulters-pddd