Tax Trouble: Indian-Origin Dentist Faces Charges for £53,528 Evasion
In England‘s West Midlands, an Indian-origin dentist named Jasbinder Singh has been told to pay £22,654 by tax authorities for not paying £53,528 in taxes.
He was publicly named by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for intentionally not paying taxes from April 2012 to April 2018. The HMRC publishes names of individuals or businesses that deliberately evade over £25,000 in taxes. In the West Midlands, the largest tax avoidance by a company was £243,647. Other companies in the region, like Daily Drinks 007 Ltd and Golden City Limited, also faced issues with unpaid taxes.
In a separate case last year, an Indian-origin manufacturer, Arif Patel, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a significant tax fraud scheme. Patel attempted to steal around £97 million through false VAT claims on textile and mobile phone exports.
In 2019, two Indian-origin restaurateurs, Sukdev Gill and Inderjit Singh, were banned from managing companies due to tax evasion that caused losses of over £4 million to the UK tax department. Gill concealed VAT, resulting in a loss of £1.97 million, while Singh traded through successor companies, also concealing VAT and causing a loss of £4.37 million.
