by Elena Chong
A BUSINESSMAN who failed to declare his rental income in his
return for the year of assessment 2005 was sentenced to a week's
jail.
Goh Ah Bah, 52, who is appealing against the sentence, was also
ordered to pay a penalty of $74,066.
He had pleaded guilty to omitting income amounting to $139,040
from his income tax return for YA 2005 with intent to evade tax on
April 8, 2005. The additional tax undercharged on the omitted
rental income was $24,689.
The court heard that Goh, who owns a number of properties
including HDB shophouses, had deliberately not declared the rental
income he received from those properties in his returns for the
years of assessment 2000 to 2006.
In all, he had committed seven tax offences for omitting to
declare rental income totalling $511,708.
He was acquitted of the other remaining six charges on Tuesday
which were withdrawn after they had been compounded at three times
the tax under-declared.