{"id":489370,"date":"2026-06-22T05:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:02:16","slug":"auckland-man-william-solomon-jailed-for-failed-bid-to-claim-250000-in-tax-gst-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489370\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland man William Solomon jailed for failed bid to claim $250,000 in tax GST refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>22 Jun, 2026 01:22 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An Auckland man has been jailed for tax fraud after trying to obtain almost $250,000 through GST refunds he wasn\u2019t entitled to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">William Ricco Solomon was sentenced to 11 months\u2019 imprisonment in the Auckland District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Between November 2023 and May 2024, Solomon, who was registered as a sole trader,<br \/>\n         submitted GST returns through two myIR accounts, trying to get $247,665.48.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">However, no money was released to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Inland Revenue\u2019s systems showed Solomon amended figures multiple times in some returns, and assessed how this would impact the refund amount before finalising the return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 22 Jun, 2026 01:22 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[96295,74,15408,51,1558,1040,2741,142014,12513,2082,3561,7510,42,78,14641,5158,43,208505,62382,39309,7496,210,61,40,38,41,39,28355,18324,10744],"class_list":["post-489370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-96295","tag-after","tag-almost","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-bid","tag-claim","tag-entitled","tag-failed","tag-for","tag-fraud","tag-gst","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-jailed","tag-man","tag-news","tag-obtain","tag-refunds","tag-solomon","tag-tax","tag-through","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trying","tag-wasnt","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489370","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=489370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}