A pub and Thai restaurant boss who cheated the taxman out of more than £272,000 has been jailed.
Simon Turner, the former owner of The Foresters Arms in Broseley, was found to have siphoned off £43,000 into personal accounts and had £8,900 stashed under his bed when investigators attended.
The court heard that Turner bought the pub with his wife in 2007 and turned it into a Thai restaurant, re-naming it The King and Thai. Over the course of his ownership, Turner set up six different companies linked to the venue to try and evade corporation tax and VAT liabilities. He failed to pay more than £174,000 in VAT and more than £98,000 in corporation tax.
After the visit, Turner called HMRC. “He said they were working 18 hours a day to try and keep the business afloat, and that he felt the visit had been ‘intimidation’,” said Michael Aspinall, prosecuting. Mr Wilkins said Turner “accepts there has been a significant loss to the taxpayer”, but said he did not have an “expensive lifestyle” as a result of the fraud.
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