EVADING TAXES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 17

EVADING TAXES

WELLINGTON CASES. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. August 1. ■ Three charges of wilfully maklnd false returns In relation to Income od his wife and self for the years ending March 31. 1926-27-28 were made againsd John Henry Garrett, and he was fined £IOO on the first charge, £SO on thd second, and £2 on the third. am and his wife were proprietors of d restaurant. A departmental offleej said investigations from 1925 an understatement of income to thd extent of £2515. and evasion tax to thd amount of £221. The income returned over the four years was £9306, wheread the true income was £11.821. The med thod was that defendant each weed paid a t ertain proportion of the taklngd into o separate account, and when hd handed his books to an accountant bd did not disclose the separate accounted On four charges of failing to fumisd a return. Lionel Waddell was fined £s(d on the first, and £2 on each of thd others. Defendant was stated to bd employed by a firm of electrical cond tractors at £520 a year, until early laid year. His existence was not known td the Department, and he had neved made a return in the past ten The tax payable amounted to £SO. d William Rowlands, who had been id business on his own account as d drainlaver since 1925. and had earned more than £3OO a year, was fined £3d the first charge, and £2 on each (d two others. 9