MEDICAL practitioner Dr. Ganesh Shiv Kumar, trading under the name and style of Dr. Ganesh Poly Clinic, in St. Ann Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was fined a total of $15,000 on Monday, after he admitted failing to submit Property Tax returns to Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

Documents tendered before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the New Amsterdam Court revealed that the defendant, on or before the April 30, 2010 , at Lot 8-1 St. Ann Street, failed to submit the documentation to the Commissioner General for the years of assessment
2010, 2011 and 2012.
Kumar had, initially, pleaded not guilty when he made his first appearance on October 27, 2012, but informed the court that he has since complied and had submitted the relevant
documentation to GRA on January 13 last.
The GRA representative, attorney-at-law Ms. Martha Halley, in response to questions from the court, said she would use her discretion with respect to the imposition of the monetary penalty, but advised that the maximum was $15,000 on each charge.
However, a fine of $5,000 was imposed for every one of the three years of default.

(By Jeune Bailey Vankeric)