Restaurant owner served jail time over GST fraud

A South Australian restaurateur has been sentenced in the Adelaide District Court to 5 years and 3 months imprisonment after being found guilty of fraudulently obtaining $613,262 in GST refunds and attempting to obtain a further $210,333 in GST refunds which were stopped by the ATO. He was also ordered to repay the amounts he fraudulently obtained.

(https://www.ato.gov.au/Media-centre/Media-releases/Restaurant-owner-served-jail-time-over-GST-fraud)

Mr Brad Austin Redman, who owned and operated a restaurant and gift shop in McLaren Vale with his wife, submitted 14 false business activity statements (BAS) and 5 false revised BAS, overstating the business’ total sales, export sales, GST-free sales and acquisitions. He also supplied an ATO auditor with a forged medical document and was also charged with one count of using a forged document to influence a Commonwealth official.

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