Two years' jail for $445K tax evasionKAYCIE O'CONNOR/STUFF Karl Barbalich was jailed for two years when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Monday (file photo). He also failed to file any income tax returns since 2005, GST since 2007 and PAYE returns from 2010. "Clearly you have been captured by a gambling addiction," noted Judge Sharyn Otene when Barbalich came before her for sentencing in the Hamilton District Court on Monday on three representative charges of tax evasion. "This man had a problem with gambling," Senar said. This brought his jail term down to 24 months, which is within the range where home detention can be applied.

Source: Stuff August 28, 2017 00:45 UTC