MANAGEMENT consultant Suzanne Dean cheated the taxman out of almost £100,000 by not paying the VAT or corporation tax due on her two businesses, it was alleged yesterday.
VAT returns submitted by the first of her two companies in its final year of business claimed it was ‘dormant’ and no tax was due – but it was still trading and receiving fees, said prosecutor Oliver Willmott at Gloucester Crown Court.
When that company, Byrnes Freeman, went bust she launched a second firm, H Consult Ltd, and that too failed to hand over VAT it had collected from clients, he alleged.
Ms Dean, formerly of Upthorpe, Cam, but now of Frombridge Lane, Whitminster, also witheld money due in corporation tax, Mr Willmott told the jury…
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