FALSE TAX RETURNS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 5

FALSE TAX RETURNS

AN ENGLISH PROSECUTION

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(Received this day at 11 n.m.) LONDON, December 2. Inland Revenue Commissioners charged Theophile Jean Baptiste Desiios, a chemical manufacturer of Richmond, Surrey, with falsely understating by £18,862 Sterling bis super tax returns for six years from 1921 to 1927; also with submitting false returns claiming relief for three years, 1914 to 1917. These included the rendering of alleged false accounts of Tasmanian Eucalyptus Oil Coy, 1910 to 192 a. The total omissions are one hundred thousand sterling, and the defendant is liable to forty thousand taxation of which £35,200 sterling was paid. Desnos said he had won eighty-five thousand at gambling at Alonte Carlo in 1914-15. The Oil Company had branches in London and ATclbourne.

It is alleged that Desnos held a majority of the shares. It was disclosed'that the profits of the London business were concealed from the Australian, namely sixteen thousand, which therefore were never paid in for British income tax. The ease was adjourned.