18/07/2024
51-year-old Desmond Ng Teng Poh (“Ng”), sole shareholder and director of Studioholic Private Limited (“SPL”), was convicted of one charge of assisting SPL to evade a total of $351,506 in GST. He was further convicted of two other charges of providing falsified documents during his audit with the intent to evade the aforesaid GST. One other charge was taken into consideration for the purposes of sentencing.
Ng made false entries in SPL’s quarterly GST return ending March 2018 by claiming input tax for purported purchases that SPL had never made. In addition, in July 2018, Ng gave false information with falsified documents in response to queries by IRAS auditors. For all his offences, Ng was sentenced to 38 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay a total of $2,458,537 in penalties.