TAX OFFENDERS’ NAMES PRINTED IN GAZETTE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 14

TAX OFFENDERS’ NAMES PRINTED IN GAZETTE

The names of 270 persons or companies convicted of tax offences or charged penal tax or penal charge during the year ended March 31, 1960, are printed in this week’s Gazette.

Ninety of them are described as farmers, 15 as fruiterers, seven as milk vendors. A dental surgeon, a registered surveyor, and a professional golfer are also included.

An Auckland man is listed as a gambler. Between 1953 and 1957 he was estimated to have evaded £ 1668 in tax. The amount of penal tax imposed is £750. Two Wellington hotelkeepers top the list in the amount of tax alleged to have been evaded. One’s evasion is estimated at £12,280. A retired hotelkeeper, he has had a penal tax of £5OOO imposed. The offences relate to the years 1947-54 and 1956. The other hotelkeeper is alleged to have evaded £12,247 in tax. Penal tax imposed amounts to £6700. The following names included in the list have Christchurch addresses unless otherwise shown, and the amounts are gazetted estimations of tax evaded and the amounts of pena] tax imposed. Schedule 1

[Persons convicted of making false returns of income or giving false information.] Robert Edward Downing, engineer, £243, £100; Charles John Gasson. Hanmer, builder, £2520, £1150; Cecil Walter Hartnell, Culverden, farmer, £272, nil; Gilfred Lancaster, jun„ Springston, farmer, £971, £400; Leslie Lancaster, Springston, farmer, £425. £150; lan R. Little, Ltd., £4884. £2250; Robert William Luscombe, Albury, farmer £415, £200; Roland John Luscombe, Albury, farmer. £513, £200; Robert James Matheson, Brighton, retired farmer, £1123, £300; Percy Alfred Sutton, Mai Mai via Reafton, sawmiller and farmer, £1429, £3OO.

Schedule 11 [Persons other than those in Schedule I who have been charged with penal tax for evading, or attempting to evade, payment of income tax or for making default of any duty with intent to evade payment.] Harold Cyril Amyes (deceased), late sheepfarmer, £1205. £625; George Henry Andrew, Blenheim. farmer, £4057, £500; Daniel James Doyle (deceased), late plumber, £897, £400; Colin Henry Gallagher, Montalto, No. 8 R.D., Ashburton, farmer, £292, £100; Reginald Burns Gallagher, Montalto, No. 8 R.D., Ashburton, farmer, £420, £150; William Ernest Laurence Gant, builder, £999, 150; Cyril George Green, cartage contractor and Storekeeper, £7BO, £450; Neville John Hatton, Temuka, garage proprietor and car dealer, £194, ’£100; John Robert Hewson, Anama, No. 8 R.D., Ashburton, £558, £250; Eileen Elsie Lawson, food supervisor, £139, £3O; Patrick Joseph Leonard, Waimate, farmer, £423, £200; James Cyril Lloyd, second-hand dealer.

£124, £5O; Ivan Aldred Oldfield, Seadown, farmer, £149, £75; CoJin Petrie, joiner, £B9, £75; Keith/ Orbell Petrie, joiner, £B9, £75; Andrew Gerald Scott, Cave, farmer, £227, £150; Patrick Sheehan, St. Andrews, farmer, £1159, £150; Robert William Shuttleworth, Benmore No. 2 R.D., farmer, £406, £250; Donald Simpson, Albury, sheepfarmer, £313, £100; Allan Beattie Smith, Albury, farmer, £lO9, £75; Robert Strahl, Kaikoura, plumber and building contractor, £272, £100; Arthur Sullivan, draper, £1658, £1000; Neil Sutherland. Conical Hills, farmer, £246, £lOO. .Schedule HI [Person * charged with penal charge for evading or attempting to evade, or making default in duty with intent to evade liability for sums payable as a charge on income other than salary, or wages.] Audrey Thelma Murly, Cobden, dressmaker, £4O, £2O. Schedule IV > [Persons charged with penal charge for failure to deduct social security charge from wages or other moneys or having deducted it, failed to account for it.] Annie Giddings, Canterbury, farmer, £ll3, £25; James Patrick O’Halloran, chair and frame marfufacturer, £7l, £25; lan Russell Paterson, Ashburton, ice cream manufacturer. £125. £5O Schedule V [Persons charged with penal tax for failure to make tax deductions from source deduction payments or, having made the deductions, failed to account for them.] Cyril Phillip Fissenden, Clarence Bridge, contractor, £6B. £5O; Arthur Basil Glubb, painter and paperhanger, £395, £5O; Komaco Products, Ltd., £156, £25; Lewis William Krammer. Motueka, farmer. £ll7, £25.