Supreme Court rejects Skinner and Rowley's last-chance appeal

Supreme Court rejects Skinner and Rowley's last-chance appeal
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 10 (BusinessDesk) - Two Wellington accountants serving prison terms on 110 counts of tax fraud have exhausted the last avenue of appeal against their convictions. The Supreme Court rejected the appeal by Barrie Skinner and David Rowley, who had sought to have the court recognise that their personal tax returns between 2006 and 2010 should be deemed to have been correct under section 109 of the Tax Administration Act. Some of the 110 charges on which they were convicted included allegations that they had knowing...