Revenue Commissioners lose their bid to hit nursing home millionaires with €760,000 tax bill

Donegal-based Hennesseys set up Scottish firm that now has 26 care homes

Aidan and Gerry Hennessey established the Meallmore care home business in Scotland in 1987

John Mulligan

The Revenue Commissioners has failed in its efforts to hit nursing home millionaires Gerry and Aidan Hennessey with a €766,000 tax bill after they claimed relief on work they undertook for a UK family firm.

The Limerick-born brothers – who now live in Donegal – established the Meallmore care home business in Scotland in 1987 and it now operates 26 premises.