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Marlborough vineyard contractor jailed

“Morris David Kennett, 44, told the court he had only tried to do right by his employees and that other contractors were only in business because of the low wages they paid their staff.

Yesterday in the Blenheim District Court Kennett was sentenced to eight months prison after admitting 17 personal charges of failing to pay tax and a further 17 of aiding and abetting the companies he ran.”

I frequently find that business owners are unaware that failure to pay PAYE constitutes tax evasion. This is one offence that the IRD takes very seriously. Even if you pay your PAYE late, this is still tax evasion. PAYE is treated in such a way because it is the crowns money held in trust by the business owner. It is akin to stealing from the state.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 at 2:55 pm and is filed under Tax Evasion/Fraud. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Marlborough vineyard contractor jailed”

  1. Howard Says:
    August 10th, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    “it’s the crowns money…”

    Um. No it’s not. It’s the wage earner’s money, which the government has forcibly deprived him/her of.

    This is just another instance of the old joke

    don’t steal, the government doesn’t like competition.

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