Local businessman fined $205,925 for tax evasion
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A local big-rig and their owners were fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for tax evasion and fraud. Timothy Richard Hawkins and his company, Hawkins Truck Mart Ltd, imposed fines for a total of $ 205,925 in the province of court Wednesday. Hawkins pleaded guilty, income tax evasion and his truck of the company, which Peterbilt New Brunswick, pleaded guilty to fraud HST fees. Hawkins, and $ 88817 fine to be paid within the next three years, otherwise it will default, the time in jail for four months. The company was fined $ 117108, which he paid immediately. A Canada Revenue Agency Hawkins has been alleged that staff costs, including the cost of building its own rate and high-end vehicles, as purchases of his company in 2002, 2003 and 2004 HST . Entry tax credits for such purchases had then claimed that the company’s Web site HST, which at $ 34975 HST refunds, the company was not entitled. The company did not in the order HST $ 82133 collected for the year. In addition, Hawkins Statement Under his income on his staff in 2002 and 2003 tax returns, the diversion of payments from the federal tax of $ 88817 for the year. Initially, the amount of fines, the court imposed trucks Hawkins and his companies also have the total amount of taxes due to increased interest rates, as well as all civil penalties, which can be used by the Agency revenue . “Taxpayers must have confidence in the fairness of the tax system,” said Commissioner William Baker Agency. “… The Canada Revenue Agency is committed to maintaining tax evasion educators to justify their action.” |