The boss of a takeaway has been banned from management and fined £134,000 after neglecting to pay businesses taxes for five years. 

Kulwant Singh Lally, 58, did not register Paisley-based Raja Tandoori with the tax authorities. 

Investigators revealed the company paid no taxes between February 2013 and February 2018 and that the tax authorities attempted to claim back-dated payments and a fine valued at £134,000. 

Lally has been banned from directing companies for the next nine years. 

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The takeaway in Old Sneddon Street was opened in 2013, but in 2018 the company petitioned to be wound-up. 

Liquidators were brought in in September of 2018, and the Insolvency Service launched an investigation into Lally and Raja Tandoori. 

Investigators uncovered that Kulwant Lally, from Paisley, claimed to have incorporated the company to protect the trading name.

Raja Tandoori failed to pay its tax liabilities, causing the tax authorities to petition the courts to wind-up the company.

The Paisley man did not dispute that he concealed tax and on June 23, 2020, he was officially disqualified from managing corporations. 

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His ban from acting as a director or directly or indirectly becoming involved, without the permission of the court, in the promotion, formation or management of a company is effective from July 14. 

Rob Clarke, chief investigator for the Insolvency Service, said: "Company directors have a legal responsibility to ensure their companies pay the correct amount of tax but Kulwant Lally clearly failed to do this for as long as the takeaway was trading.

"Nine years is a substantial ban, removing Kulwant Lally from the corporate arena, and should serve as a start warning to those directors who think can renege themselves of their duties."