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11/08/2003
Accountant fined over fraudulant tax return
An accountant has been fined after he was found guilty of defrauding the Inland Revenue.
Certified Accountant Michael Keith Graham, a 57-year-old married man from Riverside Walk, Ilkley, Yorkshire, was yesterday found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of defrauding the Inland Revenue. He was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £15,000 in addition to paying all defence costs.
Graham claimed that he had disposed of his Mercedes motorcar for £50,000 and indicated that during the same year he bought another Mercedes for £50,000. Revenue investigations revealed that Graham neither bought nor sold any car during that year and had therefore claimed allowances to which he was not entitled. The amount being defrauded was £16,502.
The court agreed with the prosecution that the defendant had "wilfully and deliberately made a fraudulent claim" in the full knowledge that what he was doing was wrong.
(gmcg)
Certified Accountant Michael Keith Graham, a 57-year-old married man from Riverside Walk, Ilkley, Yorkshire, was yesterday found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of defrauding the Inland Revenue. He was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £15,000 in addition to paying all defence costs.
Graham claimed that he had disposed of his Mercedes motorcar for £50,000 and indicated that during the same year he bought another Mercedes for £50,000. Revenue investigations revealed that Graham neither bought nor sold any car during that year and had therefore claimed allowances to which he was not entitled. The amount being defrauded was £16,502.
The court agreed with the prosecution that the defendant had "wilfully and deliberately made a fraudulent claim" in the full knowledge that what he was doing was wrong.
(gmcg)
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