Home detention has been sentenced to an Auckland based man for GST fraud. Derek Hugh Perry was sentenced to 12 month home detention on the 3rd of June, after he was found guilty on 22 charges of GST fraud. Seemingly due to his poor health, Derek Perry was sentenced to home detention, as opposed to jail time. In the time between May 2005 and May 2007, while based in Taupo, Derek Hugh Perry filed false returns for two businesses, of which he was ... Read More

An Auckland man has been convicted to 15 month of jail time for GST fraud. Auckland based Graham Ashley Robert Palmer, has been sentenced to 15 month in jail for his GST fraud. He has already served jail time for previous GST fraud in 1988, the offense amounted to $2.6 million of fraud. In this case, in the August of 2006, Graham Ashley Robert Palmer submitted an electronic GST return for a company for whom he is the only shareholder, Rexon Ltd. It ... Read More

Surf Life Saving Taranaki former Manager, Alison Margaret Douglas, has been sentenced to three and a half years jail time for tax fraud. The former lifetime Surf Life Saving member and manager, Alison Douglas was sentenced to three and a half years jail time, after pleading guilty to 23 charges of tax fraud involving PAYE. Deductions from employee wages were taken by Douglas herself and not paid to the IRD. These amounted to $61,518.61 in total, or $88,538.87 after penalties and ... Read More

Man extradited from Australia and sentenced for 25 charges revolving around GST, family support, income tax fraud. Pravin Kumar Patel was discovered to be attempting to commit tax fraud after a tax audit on his business. In 2002 he purchase a dairy in Auckland, only to sell it the subsequent year, and repurchase a similar store in Hamilton. In 2006 an audit was conducted on his business, and it was discovered that in three years of the Hamilton business’s lifetime $370,000 was undeclared ... Read More