TAXATION FRAUDS.
HEAVY FINES IN MELBOURNE. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, January 12. As an outcome of the raid on the Small Arms Company, William Bartlett, secretary for Abrahams, Bros., Fanny Cohen, Miriam Hyams, Esther Lyons, Louis Hyams, Phillip Hyams, and Harry Hyams were fined amounts totalling £IOOO, with total costs amounting to £2lO. The charges to which they all pleaded guilty were of making false incometax returns. The defendants, with the exception of Bartlett, are relatives of the Abrahams, and the Crown alleged that for some years pdst they acted as dummies, enabling the Abrahams Brothers to pay a rate of income-tax of from 12 to 16 per cent, less than the proper tax.
On August 15, police raids were made on the offices of the Small Arms Co., and the residences of the company’s solicitors and other people connected with it. The Senior Investigation Officer of the Taxation Department obtained a. search warrant on a declaration that he believed many of the taxation returns of the company were fraudulent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 5
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