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Kulwant Dhudwal — who was also charged in the tax-evasion case, but hasn’t been sentenced, according to court documents — jointly owns at least seven Surrey properties with Harjinder, B.C. title documents show.

In mortgage documents for a 13500-block 111A Avenue home assessed at $886,000, Harjinder Dhudwal lists his occupation as “sawmill worker” and Kulwant Dhudwal calls herself a “student.”

Mortgage documents for a $990,000 14000-block 113A Avenue home show that Harjinder Dhudwal calls himself “self-employed” and Kulwant Dhudwal calls herself a “health-care assistant.”

A statement from the CRA regarding the Harjinder Dhudwal sentencing says: “When taxpayers are convicted of income-tax evasion, they must still repay the full amount of taxes owing, plus interest and any civil penalties that may be assessed by the CRA. In addition, the court may fine them up to 200 per cent of the taxes evaded and impose a jail term of up to five years.”

In a conditional sentencing such as Harjinder Dhudwal’s, the convicted person avoids serving time in jail by following court-ordered conditions.

The CRA has faced criticism for a lack of enforcement in Metro Vancouver’s red-hot property market where speculative flip sales and tax-dodging are rampant, according to critics.

The last real estate tax-evasion case of this kind in the Vancouver area, before the Harjinder Dhudwal case, occurred in 2010. In that case, Dr. Raymond Ambrose Liang was fined $365,000 in unreported income from four assignment-clause flips and a condo sold through a shell company.