A Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice says rather than housewives who make cupcakes, four Cape Breton women baked up an elaborate tax fraud scheme.
In Thursday’s verdict, Justice Robin Gogan found defendants Lydia Saker and daughters Nadia Saker, Angela MacDonald, Georgette Young, and their 10 companies guilty of 20 charges — half of which were related to fraud. The remaining convictions came under the federal Excise Tax Act.
It was all a part of a $3.6-million tax fraud scheme related to GST and HST refunds that the Canada Revenue Agency say escalated in size between January 2011 and July 2015.
“The magnitude of the fiction in
