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The fact he was held in custody suggests a reasonably lengthy sentence. People in line for a suspended sentence do not get held pending sentencing....because you don't jail someone who isn't going to jail.
The fact he was held in custody suggests a reasonably lengthy sentence. People in line for a suspended sentence do not get held pending sentencing....because you don't jail someone who isn't going to jail.
Well this is kind of what I was thinking too. Time will tell what sentence he actually gets.
A tax agent has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after stealing client money and filing false GST and income tax returns.
Michael Robert McDonald was sentenced in the Manukau District Court.
In August, he pleaded guilty to four charges of theft by person in a special relationship, 13 charges of dishonestly using a document and one charge of false accounting.
McDonald had been a registered tax agent since 2002.
Between 2007 and 2013, he failed to pay client tax money to Inland Revenue, and filed about 250 false GST and income tax returns either to get money from IRD or to keep client funds.
McDonald also made false entries in one client's financial statements to conceal his offending.
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