12 Dec 2022

Lim Meng Fatt and Gan Bee Bee, both aged 53, have been convicted by the Court today for Income Tax and Goods & Services Tax (GST) evasion, as well as fraudulently de-registering their company Wan Lin Healthcare Centre Pte Ltd (“Wan Lin”) from GST when in fact the company was still liable to be GST-registered. Gan Bee Bee was also convicted of abetting Wan Lin to make a false PIC claim.

For their offences, they were sentenced by the Court to the following:

OffencesSentencing for Lim Meng FattSentencing for Gan Bee Bee
Abetted Wan Lin to evade a total of $140,378 in income tax for Year of Assessments (YA) 2015 and 201728 weeks’ imprisonment and $421,134 in penalties3 months' and 17 weeks' imprisonment and $421,134 in penalties
Omitted output tax totalling $84,304 in Wan Lin’s GST F5 returns  6 months’ imprisonment and $252,914 in penalties6 months’ imprisonment and $252,914 in penalties
Evaded GST totalling $163,206 by de-registering Wan Lin from GST in 201610 months’ imprisonment and penalty of $489,62011 months’ imprisonment and penalty of $489,620
Abetted Wan Lin to make a false PIC claim totalling $4,050 on 12 Aug 2015N.A.3 weeks' imprisonment and penalty of $12,150
Total*
*Some sentences will run concurrently.		12 months' and 16 weeks' imprisonment and $1,163,668 in penalties16 months' and 17 weeks' imprisonment and $1,175,818 in penalties