A tax-evading Southland school caterer has left a $2 million trail of debt after her company went bust.
Debra Lee Monteith appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to 11 months’ home detention on a single representative charge of aiding and abetting her company in failing to account for PAYE between March 2021 and February 2024, Inland Revenue said in a release.
That just added to her troubles after her company, Lee 19, was put into liquidation in March last year, with questions over third-party loans and operating a lawnmowing business under the company’s name, which was running contracts while in liquidation.
Her company stopped paying PAYE tax for nearly three years and defaulted on a debt…
