FALSE TAX RETURNS.
IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED.
(BT CABLE—PBZSB association copteight.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, March 3.
Samuel Harris, a Hatton Garden diamond merchant, who had pleaded guilty to making false income tax returns, thereby concealing profits totalling £68,000 since 1916, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the second division and fined £SOOO. Mr Justice Shearman, said that, in view of the falsification of the books, it was impossible to impose only a fine.
Accused had a fraudulent snowball system of valuing stocks under which he returned no profit on gems sold on the ground that until all were sold he did not know whether there would be any profit.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18014, 5 March 1924, Page 9
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