DEFRAUDING REVENUE
CASE AT AUCKLAND
A SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Two summons charges of evading payment of part of the sales tax on goods sold in May and August, 1935, by altering the amounts shown on a duplicate receipt from £27 3.0s to £7 10s and. from £24 to £4 with intent to defraud the revenue, were brought against D. Stern (Furs) Ltd., before Mr. Wyvern Wilson this morning. "These cases are frauds on revenue and cannot be described as other than deliberate and serious," said Mr. R. Meredith, for the Taxation Department. Mr. Towle, for the accused, said that Stern made full and frank disclosures when seen by the inspector. The Magistrate said it was doubtless a peculiar feature of offences aaainst the revenue that persons otherwise of good character and reputation' would endeavour to cheat the revenue or Customs. The only, way to deal with such persons was to treat the matter as serious and impose a substantial penalty. ' •
Stern was fined £25 and costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 10
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171DEFRAUDING REVENUE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 10
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