A Singapore woman has become the first to be convicted of tax evasion under the city's GST laws.
Nor Azizah Abdul Aziz was prosecuted for obtaining tax refunds from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) by making false entries in the GST returns of a company, TradeOne, where she was a manager.
The freight services company was registered under the sole proprietorship of her sister-in-law, Madam Nora Abdullah,
Nor Azizah created false tax invoices and export documents to support "fictitious" sales and purchases made by TradeOne in the period September 15, 2003 to August 31, 2004, obtaining more than $54,000 tax refunds in the process.
She pleaded guilty to five charges and admitted to having used the money to pay for her own personal expenses.
She faces a maximum penalty of three times the amount of tax evaded, a fine of up to $10,000 and jail of up to 7 years.
She will be sentenced on February 7.
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