A director of a Hampshire construction company has been jailed for tax fraud worth more than £350,000.
Accountant Stephen Love was a director of construction company J B A Martin, in Aldershot, and of Wessex Accountants, which looked after the building firm’s books.
Love failed to pay a total of £358,283 in VAT to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and was given a prison sentence of two years and three months.
Love, from Somerset, admitted in court that he had pocketed the VAT he charged his clients and used the money as cash flow for his business.
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