A SCHOOL run taxi boss who was jailed for six years for avoiding tax is due back in court for confiscation proceedings.
David Park, 73, of Jealotts Hill in Warfield, Bracknell, was the director of Berkshire Education Travel Limited and was providing home-to-home taxi services for Wokingham Borough and Bracknell Forest councils.
Last year, he was found guilty of invoicing the local authorities some £777,000 in VAT for the taxi services provided, with more than £697,000 being paid by Bracknell Forest and £79,000 by Wokingham Borough.
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Park then failed, however, to pay the tax to HMRC and kept the money.
He was jailed after a hearing in October as well as being disqualified from being a company director for seven years.
Now, Park and his company are due back in court as HMRC are seeking to recover the stolen money through confiscation.
The jury heard that he used a substantial proportion of the monies paid to his company to buy a £3.8 million property in rural Berkshire.
A confiscation order is made after conviction to deprive the defendant of the benefit that he has obtained from crime.
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The prosecutor is able to take steps to preserve assets so that they are available to pay the order.
He is due back in court later this year.
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