What is the impact of fines, fines, chasing down of taxes that may never be collected?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Mahmood, 2013 ONSC 4585 (CanLII):
In R v. Bhooi, (22 January 2010)(Brampton)(O.J.) Justice Hawke said: In terms of sentencing principles, general deterrence is the primary consideration. The whole tax system depends on millions of people voluntarily complying, and I am not convinced that fines that may never be collected, the chasing down of taxes that may never be collected in any way sends the general deterrence message. I think custody does for this type of offence, and for the group of people that we are trying to send the message to, in terms of the importance of this type of offence, and how it will not be tolerated.
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