11/06/2003
Community service for tax credit cheat
A 25-year-old single mother is to serve 80 hours Community service after admitting three charges of false accounting in respect of Working Families Tax Credit claims.
Belfast Magistrates Court today heard how Charlene Anne Begley of Longlands Park, Newtownabbey had forged details on forms used to support her claims for the Tax Credits.
The mother of two had initially been employed by Crofts Inns Ltd and later by the Windrose Bar and Bistro. Neither employer had seen the forms required to verify her earnings and consequently had not signed them.
Begley was arrested and interviewed under caution by officers of the Inland Revenue Special Compliance Office at Strandtown Police Station in June 2002. There she admitted forging two TC500 earnings enquiry forms in the names of her managers and also fabricating the figures contained in the earnings enquiry forms to maximise her Tax Credit awards.
In addition to the Community Punishment, Begley was also ordered to repay the full value of the Tax Credit loss, of £2765.02, within 26 weeks.
(MB)
Belfast Magistrates Court today heard how Charlene Anne Begley of Longlands Park, Newtownabbey had forged details on forms used to support her claims for the Tax Credits.
The mother of two had initially been employed by Crofts Inns Ltd and later by the Windrose Bar and Bistro. Neither employer had seen the forms required to verify her earnings and consequently had not signed them.
Begley was arrested and interviewed under caution by officers of the Inland Revenue Special Compliance Office at Strandtown Police Station in June 2002. There she admitted forging two TC500 earnings enquiry forms in the names of her managers and also fabricating the figures contained in the earnings enquiry forms to maximise her Tax Credit awards.
In addition to the Community Punishment, Begley was also ordered to repay the full value of the Tax Credit loss, of £2765.02, within 26 weeks.
(MB)
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