36-year-old Singaporean sentenced for evasion of duty
tax, GST
SINGAPORE: A 36-year-old Singaporean Toh Chee Wee has to
pay a fine of S$1.42 million or serve a default jail sentence of
100 weeks for evading duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) on car
imports amounting to some S$145,000.
On top of that, Toh is required to pay for earlier shortfalls of
S$181,000 in duty and S$59,500 in GST.
Toh had pleaded guilty to 58 of the charges against him. Another
112 charges were taken into consideration.
Customs officers found that Toh had under-declared the values of
234 cars which were declared in 85 duty and GST payments during a
five-month period between April and August 2007.
Toh, the owner of Yi Sheng Trading, had paid a lower duty amount of
S$807,700 and a lower GST amount of S$263,400. He was supposed to
have paid S$989,500 for duty tax and S$323,000 in GST.
He was arrested on 7 January 2009 and charged in court for his
offences.
Since November 2008, Singapore Customs has charged 12 persons in
court for the offence of evasion of duty and GST. The cases are
ongoing.
- CNA/so