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Scots bosses caged over £45,000 VAT scam after making up fake invoices

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fraudsters were jailed for a £45,000 VAT scam which saw them submitting fake invoices.Company boss David Paterson and accountant Kevin Sinclair were locked up at Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday.Paterson, 56, was jailed for two years and nine months, while Sinclair, 67, was sentenced to one year and nine months behind bars.The pair colluded to dupe the taxman by reclaiming VAT they were not entitled to.Sinclair, who ran finance firm GD Accounting, submitted bogus invoices for a company owned by Paterson - and a non-existent company set-up so they could trouser more cash.But an HMRC probe revealed that Paterson, 56, and Sinclair, 67, were not entitled to the refunds and were arrested at their homes.Paterson, of Scone, Perthshire, and.

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