INCOME TAX PROSECUTION.
RETURNS NOT FURNISHED.
A "FLAGRANT" INSTANCE!
[MT TELEGRAPH —CHESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Friday.
A flagrant case and one of the worst in his axperience, was how the CrOwn solicitor referred to charges against Anthony Harper, in tlio Magistrate's Court today, of having failed to furnish returns of his income for the past three years.
The Crown solicitor said the facts disclosed the deliberate determination of defendant .to evade his responsibilities. It was alleged that defendant, originally a bootmaker, made a return in 1921 showing a small non-taxable income. Then he made no return until 1025, when a default assessment of £9OO was mado, by the department. Defendant had made no further returns Defendant's return on the last occasion was incorrect to the extent of about £I6OO, but ho was given tho benefit of tho doubt.
On ono occasion, in 1926, defendant received £15,500 in cash for two-thirds of his property ,in Cambridge Terrace, and £338 a year as rent for the .remaining third. Tho transaction disclosed a profit of more than £BOOO, which was taxable. Tho magistrate, Mr. E. Page, deferred the question of a penalty until defendant's returns are available. COCOA AND CHOCOLATE, INCREASING CONSUMPTION. An article in the August number of. the Confectionery Journal dealing with the growth of the cocoa and chocolate trade states that consumption increased 79 per cent, between 1911 and' 1926, as against, an increase in tobacco of 44 per cent. The increase in tho usage of cocoa and chocolate in the' United Kingdom in 1926 over tho average of 1911 to 1913 is given below, and is compared with tho increase or decrease over the same period in certain other instances. Tho 1926 consum;:" tion, compared with the average of 1911 to 1913: Cocoa and chocolate, 79 per cent, increase; to-bacco, 44 per cent, increase; tea, 36 per cent, increase; coffee, 26 per cent, increase; sugar, £ per cent: increase; beer, 39 per cent, decrease. This growth of the cocoa and chocolate trade, it is pointed out, has been made during the past fifteen years in the face of difficulties of the Great War and of the post-war slump in tho national and international trade. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 11
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