INCOME TAX CASE

Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 12

INCOME TAX CASE

BUSINESS MAN FINED [Per United Press Association.] ■ CHRISTCHURCH. November 29. Failing to make complete x'eturns of bis income from 1919 to this year, and evading nearly £1,300 in income tax, William Alfred Mills, of Armagh, formerly interested in a city business dealing "in pianos and machines, was today fined amounts totalling £SO and costs by Mr Young, S.M. The defendant was charged with failing to furnish statements sotting out all . his assessable income for the years ended March, 1929, 1930. 1931, and 1932, and he pleaded guilty. It was stated during the hearing that in the fourteen years the defendant had been in business his income totalled £17,500, while at one time he had book debts totalling £20,000. Counsel for the Crown stated that Mills came to Christchurch in 1918 from Ashburton. In 1928 be went on a trip to England after disposing of bis Christchurch business, but retaining bis book debts. When lie left New Zealand he had book debts amounting to the rather amazing total of £20,000. This sum was made up of hire purchase accounts and agreements over pianos, machines, and so on. Mills was in England for two years, ami all the time he was away these book debts were being collected! The actual income received by Mills during the year 1932 was £475, biit bis return for that period showed bis income to be £240. In 1930 his income was £413, and £250 was given in his return.