February 02, 2005
$500k fine and 2 years for GST fraud
Today the Canada Revenue Agency issued a news release citing a case of GST tax fraud in British Columbia.
The news release stated that Rolf Van Nuys and Valley Heavy Equipment Inc. pleaded guilty to 14 counts of GST fraud in Abbotsford Provincial Court. The Abbotsford businessman was sentenced to two years and six months in jail. He and the company were fined $501,830.
More information is available on the CRA web site at:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/newsroom/releases/2005/feb/0202vancouver-e.html
The CRA also reported a near $350,000 fine to a London travel agency director for tax evasion. According to the CRA web site, Walter T. Whale, director of 556032 Ontario Limited (operating as Travelsource Network) was fined $254,060 for failing to remit $127,030 in GST, and fined $7,760 for evading the payment of federal corporate income taxes for the taxation years of 1995 to 1999.
More information is available on the CRA web site at:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/newsroom/prosecutions/on/0202london-e.html
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Over the last 5-6 years I have been obsessively engaged in a Tax Evasion case which started under Revenue Canada to what is now CRA. As a result of persistent disclosure and access to information requests, we have discovered very important elements regarding the identity of the Investigation demarcation...which has been a point of serious debate extending to the SCC Jarvis/Ling matter. We now know that the Agency knowingly operates a programmed staged investigation through their AIMS computer system that has been used to simply mislead the court on the presumption that there was an audit and there was an auditor. This is very very important information to anyone charged with tax evasion and intending to challenge.
Currently we are still searching for even more information to compile and would appreciate contact of ex-agency employees (V&E or SI Team Leaders) that are not under the influence for their employer any more, and would like to..."spill the beans", so to say.
The Agency operates in an esoteric system which is why it has been so difficult to know what to ask for in disclosure prior to trial, which tends to give the Crown the advantage due to the ignorance level of the Defence... so we would be all too pleased to have this information out in order to give the Defence a significant leg-up on their disclosure demands.
Please feel free to contact me at any time. 1(306) 775-2626
C.A.K.
Posted by: C. Kimery on August 12, 2005 01:13 PM
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