INCOME TAX EVASION
TWO MEN EACH FINED £560 (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 27. Two brothers in partnership as electroplaters both admitted eight charges of wilfully furnishing false returns of income, and were each fined a total of £560 by Mr F. McCarthy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. The defendants were Mervyn Frederick George Coombes and Roy Henry Gordon Coombes. Prosecuting for the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Mr H. Rosen said theoffences were from 1944 to 1952. Each had returned incomes totalling more than £15,000 for the period, but these were now assessed at £30,700 each. The tax deficiency for Mervyn Coombes was £7398, and for Roy Coombes it was £7126. Mr H. M. Wheaton said neither man was well-educated, nor had training m any sort of office work or book-keep-ing. Of necessity, they had had to depend on other persons, and these too often were unreliable. The Magistrate fined each man £7O on each charge.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 9
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