YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT
FEDERAL TAXATION CASE FALSE RENESENTATIM # Press Association—' Telq^h^eo^ighS SYDNEY, April 16. ; As a sequel toprotracted litigatiog with the Taxation Department, Theodore Charles Trautwein, aged .72, hotel proprietor and prominent racing identity, was to-day sentenced to'one year’* imprisonment on a_ charge of making untrue representation concerning, an agreement with the Federal Taxation Department, under which he was privileged to pay off a heavy indebtcdnes* by comparatively small instalments. Trautwein had been originally prose? cuted for seriously understating his income between 1921 and 1927, resulting in judgment being given against him in 1936 for £147,000. The Taxation DeEartment sit that time estimated that e was liable for £162,836. The Magistrate to-day refused to su»pendl sentence, but* notice, or appeal waa given,
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Evening Star, Issue 23553, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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121YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT Evening Star, Issue 23553, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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