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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988

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PROPRIETORS REMINDED OF CONSEQUENCES OF TAX EVASION

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A SPOKESMAN FOR THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT TODAY (FRIDAY)

ΤΟ HEAVY REMINDED PROPRIETORS THAT EVASION OF PROFITS TAX COULD LEAD FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.

THIS

OF

A

A COURT FOLLOWED

CASE IN WHICH A PROPRIETOR WAS PLASTICWARE AND METAL FACTORY

FINED A TOTAL

AND OF $347,000 TWO WEEKS TO THREE SENTENCED TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT RANGING FROM

1983-84 MONTHS ON EIGHT CHARGES OF WILFUL INTENT TO EVADE TAX BETWEEN AND 1986-87.

THE TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT ARE TO BE SERVED CONCURRENTLY.

A TOTAL OF $964,913 IN PROFITS WAS OMITTED BY THE

RESULTING IN AN WHEN MAKING TAX RETURNS,

OF EVASION

TOTALLING $160,858.

PROPRIETOR

PROFITS TAX

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE FOR SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED WORKING SMOOTHLY

EMPLOYERS WHO WERE SUPPORTIVE IN EMPLOYING THE SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE WERE TODAY (FRIDAY) PRESENTED WITH SOUVENIRS BY THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG.

THE EMPLOYMENT MANY EMPLOYERS

SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY, MRS WONG EXPRESSED HER APPRECIATION FOR THE MEANINGFUL WORK PERFORMED BY SERVICE AND HER GRATITUDE FOR THE VALUABLE SUPPORT OF WHO ENABLED THE SERVICE TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES.

SHE NOTED THAT THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE HAD A LONG HISTORY DATING BACK TO 1959 WHEN IT AIMED AT HELPING "MEMBER AGENCIES TO FIND EMPLOYMENT FOR CLIENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERED TO BE IN NEED OF SPECIAL ATTENTION"

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IT WAS LATER REORGANISED IN 1970 WHEN BOTH THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT AGREED TO PROVIDE JOB PLACEMENTS FOR THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, WHILE THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE CONCENTRATED ITS WORK ON THE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS OF THE SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED.

THEM

WITH

"TODAY, THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ASSISTS THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REHABILITATION OF SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE BY PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, MRS WONG SAID.

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