{"id":188298,"date":"2025-12-17T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188298\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:35:17","slug":"high-flying-super-yacht-designer-charles-robinson-in-tax-evasion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188298\/","title":{"rendered":"High-flying super yacht designer Charles Robinson in tax evasion case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court heard Robinson\u2019s records showed money owed to other companies was paid in preference to tax owed to Inland Revenue.<\/p>\n

Robinson also paid more than $122,000 into his personal bank account to fund a high-end lifestyle, the Inland Revenue said in a press release.<\/p>\n

He also claimed more than $250,000 from Covid-19 relief schemes that had not been paid back.<\/p>\n

In his judgment, the judge said: \u201cThere is nothing more corrosive to a society than an individual earning high levels of income and avoiding tax.\u201d <\/p>\n

Both of Robinson\u2019s companies had since gone into voluntary liquidation and Robinson himself was declared bankrupt in 2022.<\/p>\n

Inland Revenue argued for a near-maximum sentence.<\/p>\n

It pointed to the \u201cgravity of the offending\u201d and the fact Robinson would be serving his sentence in a $7m luxury property.<\/p>\n

Robinson was ordered to pay $250,000 in reparations.<\/p>\n

His 11-month sentence is one month short of the maximum allowed for home detention in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard Robinson\u2019s records showed money owed to other companies was paid in preference to tax owed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29893,1558,1121,6932,9861,1656,118253,28145,36266,6130,12470,71,42,45057,78,84184,22050,1132,11692,43,1136,16401,26479,37477,4062,12633,1516,313,7496,1361,40,38,41,39,118252,6123,16506],"class_list":["post-188298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-authorities","tag-been","tag-case","tag-cash","tag-charles","tag-company","tag-deducted","tag-designer","tag-evasion","tag-failing","tag-fees","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-highflying","tag-in","tag-interior","tag-louis","tag-million","tag-nearly","tag-news","tag-private","tag-rent","tag-robinson","tag-salaries","tag-school","tag-spent","tag-staff","tag-super","tag-tax","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vuitton","tag-while","tag-yacht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}