INCOME TAX FRAUDS.
£2OOO CONSCIENCE MONEY. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, November 6. Three directors of a Widness iron foundry now in voluntary liquidation were sent to prison at Liverpool Assizes yesterday for making false income-tax returns. The men and the sentences are: Samuel Robinson, 72, formerly a .T.P., four months; Sam Strickland, 73, . four months; and James Herbert Rawson, 59, six months.
The claim of the Inland Revenue against the men ran into many thousands of pounds. It was stated' that Strickland, who rose from a workman at 30s a week to be a director, had paid more than £2OOO as "conscience money."
In passing sentence Mr Justice Avory said that if all made true returns and paid there would be some hope of the burden of the tax being reduced.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 8
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