What happens if you cheat the taxman out of £350k like James Benn?

A property developer who cheated the taxman out of £350,000 has been let off with a conditional discharge. James Benn, 51, submitted false tax returns for his business Scottwood Homes between April 2010 and Apri 2014. Benn, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, admitted one count of fraudulent evasion of tax and was given a three year conditional discharge. He appeared at Southwark Crown Court via video-link from his home as Judge Tony Baumgartner told him: ‘You submitted false tax returns, which resulted…