He also failed to file tax returns from 2019 until 2022 and in 2023 filed a false income tax return for that year.<\/p>\n
In May 2023, Inland Revenue notified Moss of an audit investigation after obtaining bank account statements for accounts linked to him showing he had been receiving undeclared income.<\/p>\n
On the same day, Moss contacted an international relocation company to obtain a quote for moving household goods to Australia.<\/p>\n
The court heard that after receiving a call from Inland Revenue where Moss said he would file the outstanding returns, the builder paid nearly $1700 to a travel agency and an airline, requested an early release from his fixed-term tenancy, and filed a false 2023 income tax return.<\/p>\n
Moss departed for Melbourne in July 2023 but failed to respond to numerous attempts by Inland Revenue to contact him.<\/p>\n
Between May and July 2024, Moss accessed his myIR several times from an IP address in Perth, but did not open any of the web messages send by Inland Revenue.<\/p>\n
Moss returned to New Zealand in September 2024 and accessed his myIR account from an IP address in Dunedin but again failed to read any web messages.<\/p>\n
Inland Revenue filed charges that same month. Moss\u2019 income tax shortfall at the time was calculated to be $267,368.09. <\/p>\n
In February this year, Moss engaged a tax agent who filed amended income tax returns for the 2019 to 2023 years.<\/p>\n
However, these returns were not accepted by Inland Revenue as they failed to include received income into one of Moss\u2019 other bank accounts.<\/p>\n
Moss was sentenced on one representative charge and one single charge of evading or attempting to evade the assessment or payment of income tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also failed to file tax returns from 2019 until 2022 and in 2023 filed a false income…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33182,1558,8988,138,4487,6131,20556,36266,6130,2082,35369,6276,1345,3234,130,38587,111,139,69,5161,202,7496,131],"class_list":["post-49063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-33182","tag-been","tag-builder","tag-business","tag-christchurch","tag-declare","tag-detention","tag-evasion","tag-failing","tag-for","tag-gary","tag-gets","tag-home","tag-months","tag-more","tag-moss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sentenced","tag-seven","tag-tax","tag-than"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063","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=49063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}