Tax adviser Gilchrist found guilty in false invoicing scheme

Tax adviser Gilchrist found guilty in false invoicing scheme
July 26 (BusinessDesk) – High-profile tax adviser and former Inland Revenue Department official Brent Gilchrist has been found guilty of six charges of helping orchestrate a fictitious invoice writing scheme that sought to route funds through Vanuatu as part of a tax avoidance scheme. In two judgments relating to different tax avoidance schemes, delivered by Justice Simon France, Gilchrist is characterised as an adviser with “a propensity to destroy records” and “someone always conscious of covering their tracks.” “Particularly when Mr Gilchr...