WAGES TAX NOT PAID

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 24

WAGES TAX NOT PAID

Company Admits Two Charges (New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, December 10. Two charges of failing to account for tax deducted from employees* wages were adjourned till January 27 after the principal shareholder, F. Gibbs, had entered pleas of guilty to both charges on behalf of Pedersen and Gibbs, Ltd., a sawmilling company, of Castlecliff, in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court. Prosecuting for the Inland Revenue Department, Mr F. J. Connel said an investigation was made when it was discovered that there was no record of wages tax payments from the company after January, 1957. As a result it was found that there was a deficiency of £ll3 0s fid in tax between May 1 and July 31, 1958, and a deficiency of £230 12s 7d between April 1, 1957, and March 31, 1958. The company had been prosecuted for a simlar offence in 1957. After he hhd been advised that the books of the company were now in the hands of an accountant with the object of keeping them up to date and getting the tax paid, Mr S. S. Preston, S.M., granted an adjournment to allow the tax still outstanding to be paid before deciding the question of penalty.