TWO businesses in Bridgwater have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for failing to pay tax.

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 wiped after a year.

In the latest update to the list, M Sure Win Limited (formerly trading as ‘China Star’), was included.

The business 'formerly' residing at 38 St John Street was fined a total of £91,073.93 for default(s) in the period of August 1 2015 to December 31 2020.

The total amount of tax/duty on which the penalty was based was £137,294.56.

In the second most recent update, Shaanz Peri Peri Bridgwater Ltd was fined £41,426.03 for default(s) in the period from October 24 2018 to December 31 2020.

The business, 'formerly' of the 5 Eastover residence, was fined based on a total tax/duty figure of £62,529.86.