FOUR people and a company owned by three of them have been referred to trial for allegedly failing to pay more than BD120,000 in value-added tax (VAT), the Public Prosecution said in a statement yesterday.
The four will appear before the First High Criminal Court, after the Tax Evasion Crimes Unit at the Financial Crimes and Money Laundering office of the Public Prosecution, ordered that cases be filed against them.
Investigators found that more than BD120,000 in VAT had been collected from customers but not remitted to the National Bureau for Revenue (NBR).
The NBR submitted two formal reports on two separate cases.
One case centres on three defendants and their company accused of withholding VAT owed on its operations.
The second involves a fourth defendant who allegedly failed to remit VAT collected through his sole proprietorship.
NBR officials noted that their oversight work revealed that the accused had filed tax returns but withheld the tax they had charged customers.
The Tax Evasion Crimes Unit has imposed travel bans on the defendants and summoned revenue specialists to give evidence.
All the four accused admitted to the charges against them during questioning.
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