{"id":5930,"date":"2023-01-12T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:10:40","slug":"couple-convicted-for-multiple-tax-evasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/couple-convicted-for-multiple-tax-evasions\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Convicted for Multiple Tax Evasions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SINGAPORE: <\/strong>Lim Meng Fatt and Gan Bee Bee, both aged 53, have been convicted by the Court today for tax evasions of <a href=\"\/corporate-tax-filing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Income Tax<\/a> and Goods &amp; Services Tax (GST), as well as fraudulently de-registering their company Wan Lin Healthcare Centre Pte Ltd (\u201cWan Lin\u201d) from GST when in fact the company was still liable to be <a href=\"\/gst-registration-in-singapore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GST-registered<\/a>. Gan Bee Bee was also convicted of abetting Wan Lin to make a false PIC claim.<\/p>\n<p>For their offences, they were sentenced by the Court to the following:<\/p>\n<table id=\"tablesaw-1559\" class=\"tablesaw tablesaw-stack\" data-tablesaw-mode=\"stack\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Offences<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Sentencing for Lim Meng Fatt<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Sentencing for Gan Bee Bee<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">Abetted Wan Lin to evade a total of <strong>$140,378 <\/strong>in income tax for Year of Assessments (YA) 2015 and 2017<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">28 weeks\u2019 imprisonment and <strong>$421,134<\/strong> in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">3 months&#8217; and 17 weeks&#8217; imprisonment and <strong>$421,134<\/strong>in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">Omitted output tax totalling <strong>$84,304<\/strong> in Wan Lin\u2019s GST F5 returns \u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">6 months\u2019 imprisonment and <strong>$252,914<\/strong> in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">6 months\u2019 imprisonment and <strong>$252,914<\/strong> in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">Evaded GST totalling $163,206 by de-registering Wan Lin from GST in 2016<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">10 months\u2019 imprisonment and penalty of <strong>$489,620<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">11 months\u2019 imprisonment and penalty of <strong>$489,620<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">Abetted Wan Lin to make a false PIC claim totalling <strong>$4,050<\/strong> on 12 Aug 2015<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">N.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">3 weeks&#8217; imprisonment and penalty of <strong>$12,150<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\"><strong>Total*<\/strong><br \/>\n*<em>Some sentences will run concurrently.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">12 months&#8217; and 16 weeks&#8217; imprisonment and <strong>$1,163,668<\/strong> in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"tablesaw-cell-content\">16 months&#8217; and 17 weeks&#8217; imprisonment and <strong>$1,175,818<\/strong> in penalties<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iras.gov.sg\/news-events\/newsroom\/husband-and-wife-convicted-for-multiple-tax-evasions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRAS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Lim Meng Fatt and Gan Bee Bee, both aged 53, have been convicted by the Court today for tax evasions of Income Tax and Goods &amp; Services Tax (GST), as well as fraudulently de-registering their company Wan Lin Healthcare Centre Pte Ltd (\u201cWan Lin\u201d) from GST when in fact the company was still liable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[127,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/timcole.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}