INCOME TAX NOT PAID
HOTEL KEEPER FINED
(United Press Association) GISBORNE, December 4.
Under-statements of income involving £3243 over five years were the basis of five charges against Herbert Askew, a hotel keeper, of Te Araroa, heard by Mr A. Coleman, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. The defendant was fined £lO2 and costs £4/10/-. Mr F. W. Nolan, for the Commissioner of Taxes, said an examination of the defendant’s books revealed a systematic suppression of receipts of money being put away in the defendant’s and his wife’s names without being recorded. As a result of under-state-ments of income during the past five years tax totalling £Bl2 had been underpaid. This 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 Ruai toria to handle.
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Southland Times, Issue 23991, 5 December 1939, Page 8
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147INCOME TAX NOT PAID Southland Times, Issue 23991, 5 December 1939, Page 8
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