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"Cali" Vietnamese noodle shop in Chinatown.

Revenue Quebec fines Chinatown restaurant owners $800,000 for tax evasion


                                        
        
         MONTREAL — Revenue Quebec  announced Thursday it has slapped the owners of a restaurant in  Montreal’s Chinatown with $800,000 in fines and 391 counts of tax  evasion among other charges.


The fines are  among the largest ever imposed on a Quebec restaurant and failure to pay  them could result in jail time for owners Anh Tuan Dang and Thi Tuyet  Dung Dang.


Revenue Quebec alleged that, between  2011 and 2013, the owners of the Pho Cali Vietnamese noodle shop filed  false income tax returns and forged receipts to get out of paying taxes.


Quebec’s  tax agency has cracked down on tax evasion in restaurants since it  implemented sales-recording modules, called SRMs, in 2011.
SRMs  are a kind of micro-computer that records financial transactions and  send them to Revenue Quebec. If the data collected on the SRMs doesn’t  match what restaurant owners are filing in their tax returns, they could  land themselves in a world of hurt with the tax agency.
The  Pho Cali owners are accused of having set up a parallel billing system  in which they would circumvent their SRM-connected cash register.


A  2013 report from Revenue Quebec shows the tax department collected an  additional $160 million in sales tax revenue since installing the SRMs  in fall 2011.

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