€4m in 'tax refund' cheques sent last year remain uncashed

38,267 cheques with a total value of €4,039,320 were not cashed.

Cheques having a total value of just over €4 million, sent by the government in May last year in what is known as the tax refund scheme, have remained uncashed, the finance minister said on Tuesday.The minister, Clyde Caruana, was replying to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Jerome Caruana Cilia.He said the cheques were...