A local businessman being slapped with a six-figure fine after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion.
Bruce English, the owner of Soil Solutions, an environment dust control business, has been fined over 200-thousand dollars.
Over 120-thousand dollars for not reporting business income for three years and nearly 100-thousand dollars for making false statements on his HST returns and understating his payable HST for the same three-year period.
The fine has to be paid within a year and makes up 75% of the taxes he tried to evade.