Grocer who made sales of £1m sentenced for tax fraud
A Merseyside man who made a £1m in sales from his grocery shop but paid no VAT for four years has been sentenced for evading almost £69,000 in taxes.
David Leatherbarrow, 58, of Brentwood Avenue, Crosby, was the director of Festival Sales (UK) Ltd, a company which traded from a shop in Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire.
During routine visits, HM Revenue and Customs officers discovered the business was not registered for VAT despite weekly takings of about £20,000.
Leatherbarrow claimed the company had only been trading for six... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
