Marco Dittrich, the director of a sports equipment importer company, Singapore Tri-Global, evaded more than $13,400 in GST.
He pleaded guilty to one charge of evading GST and was fined $64,000 on 15 September.
Another similar charge was considered during sentencing.
The Singapore PR wrongly declared the value of 33 shipments of bicycle parts and evaded more than $9k in GST, from June 2020 to December 2020.
And then from January 2021 to April 2021, he again wrongly declared the value of 13 other shipments of bicycle parts and evaded more than $4.4k in GST.
A customs officer inspected his consignment of shipments and discovered that the declared value was lower than the actual value of the consignment, more than 14 times lover than what it’s supposed to be valued at; $23,360.