TWO Worcestershire businesses have been named on a government list of tax defaulters.

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.

According to HMRC, details are published when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000.

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HMRC also stresses that the published person or business may have changed their behaviour as records only show behaviour between two dates, and new businesses assigned to the address does not reflect on the previous actions of the previous owners.

The list is updated every three months, and the information is wiped after a year.

The current list of people and companies defaulted at some point between January 2019 and April 2021.

The information below is listed on the government website when this story was published.

Below are the companies listed by HMRC:

Gordon Arthur Jennings 

Business, trade, or occupation: Courier

Address: Formerly of Checketts Court, Droitwich Road, Worcester

Period of default: April 2014 to April 2020

The total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £183,924.86

The total amount of penalties charged: £103,457.70

Cent Furniture Limited

Business, trade, or occupation: Selling furniture products via e-markets

Address: Formerly of 305 Hartlebury Trading Estate, Hartlebury, Kidderminster

Period of default: January 2019 to June 2020

The total amount of tax/duty on which penalties are based: £183,711

The total amount of penalties charged: £128,597.70 

Worcester News has attempted to contact both companies but has been unable to get a response.