EVADED INCOME TAX

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1929, Page 6

EVADED INCOME TAX

OFFENDER FINED £lO,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 26

Charges of failure to furnish income tax returns for the past four years were preferred in the Police Court against Percy Douglas Jones.

All - Hubble, for the Commissioner of Taxes, said Jones should have paid taxes every *year since 1919. and had not done so. The total amount of tax which had been evaded in nine years was over £3OO. It was true that a certain amount of income had been crab tod but the Department had been den nil ely advised that it was all.assessable. The seriousness from the point of view of the Department lay in the "fact that if it had not been discovered, by chance accused would have escaped for the whole nine years.

Counsel for .Jones said tile omission to make returns was to a certain extent due to carelessness. Jones knew little about clerical work. He took no active part in the bookkeeping part or clerical side of business, in any case tile amount of bis drawings from business were very low.

The Magistrate, Mr Hunt, commented that in some years Jones was receiving a total income of between £9OO and £IOOO and must have known he was liable to taxation. Fines of £lO for each of the four years were imposed, Jones being also ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.