Damien Grant: The Ponsonby icon that dined out on unpaid tax

Do you remember SPQR? Not the Senate and People of Rome. The flashy restaurant that was the flamboyant heart of Ponsonby Road for three decades.

I’m more Columbus Coffee or Burger Fuel, depending on the time of day. Still, I’d wasted a few afternoons al-fresco dining at SPQR when someone else was picking up the tab, which in theory contained a 15% allocation for GST. Yet it seems the Commissioner didn’t always get his cut.