INCOME TAX CASE
' HOTELKEEPER FINED
(By Telegraph— Press Associations GISBORNE, December 4
Understatement of income, involving £3243 over five years, was the basis of five charges against Herbert Askew, hotelkeeper, Te Araroa, heard by Mr. Coleman, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. The defendant was fined £102 and costs £4 10s. Mr. F. W. Nolan, for the Commissioner of Taxes, said that an examination of the books revealed systematic suppression of receipts, money being put away in the defendant's name and that of his wife, without being recorded. As a result of understatement of income during the last five years, tax totalling £812 had been underpaid, which the defendant had since paid. Counsel for the defendant attributed the position to negligence rather than wilful suppression. The defendant entered his takings daily and handed the books to an accountant in Ruatoria to handle, '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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INCOME TAX CASE
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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