HEAVY FINE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 86, 10 November 1939, Page 8

HEAVY FINE

EVASION" OF TAXES £30 OWING IN SALES TAX Mr W. H. Freeman S.M. Imposed a line of £25 and allowed £5 lfis costs against W. F. Trainor when a charge of selling taxable goods without a license contrary to Section (5 (1) of the Sales Tax Act 193233 was read on "Wednesday. Joseph Vincent Carley, an oft'iccr in the Customs Department, stated in evidence that Trainor purchased plaster from Messrs Boon, Sullivan, Luke for the purpose of manufacturing plaster board. He had manufactured the board but had not paid the tax on the completed article. The Customs Department and the Collector of Sales Tax at Wellington had written to him on numerous I occasions and lie had been given every consideration but had not replied to the correspondence. He did not possess a license to sell the completed articlc and had not no tilled the Department. The value of the board manufactured was estimated to be over £800 and the liability in Sales Tax approximately £30. Mr G. Otley, for the Collector of Sales Tax, mentioned that the minimum fine under Section 54 of the Sales Tax Act, was £25, and this was inflicted by the Magistrate with the addition of witnesses' expenses, £5 (is lOd and costs, 10s.