Big fine for tax skipping
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• A company and its principal director have been ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £11,600 after "month skipping" on vehicle tax.
The company, B & S Northover of Aintree, admitted two offences of using a vehicle without an excise licence. It was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £910 back duty and £100 costs.
Director Gale Northover denied two offences of making a false application for an excise licence but was convicted by magistrates. He was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £150 prosecution costs.
John Heaton, prosecuting for the VI, told Bootle magistrates that both cases were an example of month skipping on tax, two months in one case and three months in the other.
Northover had applied to tax the vehicles, declaring that he was becoming their keeper on a particular date. He applied for
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