PETROL DUTY
CLAIM FOR REFUND
FISHERMEN'S MISTAKE
Investigations made by the police in consequence'of a recent ease against an Italian storekeeper at Island Bay for making false claims for the refund of petrol duty, resulted in three Island Bay. fishermen, Thomas Isbester, Giuseppe Greco, and Andrew George Tait being charged with similar offences at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the three defendants obtained supplies of petrol for their fishing launches from a storekeeper named Alfano. The defendants' relied on information supplied by Alfano as to the amount they were entitled to claim as refund of petrol duty. The information supplied by Alfano, however, was incorrect, and consequently charges were brought against the defendants. The police did not suggest that there was any intention on the part of the defendants to defraud, but if they had checked their nymthly and quarterly returns properly the mistakes would not have been made. In inflicting a fine of £5 on each of the defendants, the Magistrate, Mr. E. Page, said that when making a claim for a refund of this nature there was an onus on the person making the claim to satisfy himself completely that the claim was correct. - •
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 97, 21 October 1932, Page 8
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199PETROL DUTY Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 97, 21 October 1932, Page 8
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