Tax agent charged with pocketing funds from falsified tax returns

Tax agent charged with pocketing funds from falsified tax returns
Sophie Boot
By Sophie Boot Nov. 17 (BusinessDesk) - A former tax agent who allegedly falsified 250 GST and income tax returns in order to keep client money has been charged with 18 counts of fraud. Michael Robert McDonald, 40, appeared in the Manukau District Court today on four charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, 13 charges of dishonestly using a document, and one charge of false accounting. The Serious Fraud Office, which laid the charges, alleges between 2007 and 2013 McDonald took money from clients to pay their taxes but k...