by Elena Chong
A BUSINESSMAN who failed to declare his rental income in his return for the year of assessment 2005 was sentenced to a week's jail.
Goh Ah Bah, 52, who is appealing against the sentence, was also ordered to pay a penalty of $74,066.
He had pleaded guilty to omitting income amounting to $139,040 from his income tax return for YA 2005 with intent to evade tax on April 8, 2005. The additional tax undercharged on the omitted rental income was $24,689.
The court heard that Goh, who owns a number of properties including HDB shophouses, had deliberately not declared the rental income he received from those properties in his returns for the years of assessment 2000 to 2006.
In all, he had committed seven tax offences for omitting to declare rental income totalling $511,708.
He was acquitted of the other remaining six charges on Tuesday which were withdrawn after they had been compounded at three times the tax under-declared.