TAX EVASION CHARGES

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28254, 16 April 1957, Page 14

TAX EVASION CHARGES

£220 Fine Imposed (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 15. Allan McLean, aged 31, who appeared before Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., today, on six charges ot failing to account for the social security charge deducted from wages and five charges of making false returns of income, was fined £220. Mr W. F. Thompson, for the Inland Revenue Department, said an investigation revealed that McLean, who had previously been a clerk, had for the 10 yean ended March 31, 1956, been conducting a business which made clothes lines, wheelbarrows, and other items, while still stating his clerk’s salary as his income. This business had apparently been started as a spare-time job to supplement McLean’s income and had flourished into a fulltime concern. The £29 8s 3d tax which had been paid over the period should have been £534 3s 6d, together with a further £285 Is lid social security charge and £3l 15s' deducted from wages paid to his younger brother. Mr E. J. Anderson, for McLean, said that the two brothers became submerged in a business which grew too fast for them, and there was no proper form of accounting. This made it difficult for McLean to control this side of his affairs.