didn't know got this case of a tutor sue another tutor, and won $170K in damages

[OYK]

SINGAPORE - An economics "super-tutor" won a defamation suit against a rival, who was ordered to pay some $170,000 in damages, including aggravated damages last month.

Dr Anthony Fok, 37, who was named one of Singapore's "super tutors" in a 2017 Sunday Times report, has been featured in several media articles.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...awarded-170k-in-defamation-suit-against-rival

 

[Hmv]

Wah, who did he sue? The Shit Times article only got two paragraphs knn

 

[Van Sexting]

In 2021, Fok sued rival tutor Edmund Quek for defamation and received S$170,000 in damages

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fok

 

[Nymphomania]

The same Edmund Quek of Economics Café Learning Centre?

Recalcitrant economics tutor gets 5 weeks’ jail and penalties of $72,770.79 for Income Tax evasion​

51-year-old Quek Ban Tong Edmund (“Quek”), the precedent partner of Economics Café Learning Centre (“ECLC”), was sentenced to five weeks’ jail and ordered to pay penalties of $72,770.79 for evading $24,256.93 in Income Tax.

Quek carried on the business of conducting individual and group tuition in economics. He also engaged in the sale of economics textbooks to his students. Investigations revealed that Quek under-reported the sales and net profits of ECLC in its Partnership Income Tax return (Form P) for Year of Assessment (YA) 2020 by omitting sales revenue from individual tuition and the sale of economic textbooks. Quek’s share of the ECLC partnership profits was also under-reported in his personal Income Tax returns for YA 2020 (Form B).

The total amount of trade income omitted by Quek was $150,867.00, resulting in $24,256.93 of Income Tax undercharged.

IRAS’ audit programme uncovered the offence

Prior to his conviction, Quek was audited by IRAS in 2016 and placed under IRAS’ Post Compliance Surveillance (“PCS”) Programme. He was supposed to make improvements in his income tax reporting and record-keeping. During IRAS’ PCS Programme audit in 2020, IRAS detected that Quek had wilfully evaded taxes. He is the second recalcitrant taxpayer under the PCS Programme to be prosecuted by IRAS.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/news-events...enalties-of--72-770.79-for-income-tax-evasion

 

[Nymphomania]

“Truthfully, the world of economics tuition in Singapore is not pretty. Economics tutors have been embroiled in lawsuits over who the best Econs tutor is (which is why I personally shun from labelling myself as one). I have also been a target of smear campaigns, fake reviews, and even malware attacks. These issues take up precious time and energy that could have been spent on my students instead.

Alas, I prefer not to invest too much time into marketing. Instead, I am focused on providing the best quality tuition for my students, and let their results and word-of-mouth do the talking. Each year, I am also working on providing newer and better materials, such as the IB & JC A-Level Economics Notes, Infographics & Mindmaps, Economics Concept Videos, A-Level & IB Economics Real World Examples, Past A-Level Questions and Answers, and so much more. This is the healthy competition that all Econs tutors should be focussing on instead. We need to remember that our ultimate goal is to help our students.

Folks from the MOE and from marketing agencies have also observed this peculiar problem with regards to Economics tuition. It does not seem to affect the rest of the JC tuition industry—only Economics. It is quite a mystery and I think I might have finally solved it.In Economics, we learn that firms seek to maximise profit. We also learn of many possible firm strategies to achieve that. Have economic tutors been taking economics too seriously and in a wrong way?We all need to earn profits but we should live our lives with a purpose that is beyond that, and teaching is actually a higher calling that should be beyond the dollars and cents.

Moreover, competition should be principled and ethical. Unfortunately, in the digital world, it seems that unhealthy and unethical competition is easier to engineer and much easier to get away with. This is actually quite scary.So to all these, I would say, I do not know if I am offering the best economics tuition. I probably will never know and I don’t really care. I will just keep getting better for myself and for my students to provide BETTER economics tuition every year,” said Mr. Kelvin Hong.

 

[Arnold Schwarzenegger]

https://www.domainofexperts.com/2012/10/dr-anthony-fok.html

 

[Cs101]

Sue until can get $170k, what did edmund say wrongly?

 

[k1976]

Wah, who did he sue? The Shit Times article only got two paragraphs knn

He activated John Tan favourite Bayi Legal Team?

 

[winnipegjets]

The same Edmund Quek of Economics Café Learning Centre?

Recalcitrant economics tutor gets 5 weeks’ jail and penalties of $72,770.79 for Income Tax evasion​

51-year-old Quek Ban Tong Edmund (“Quek”), the precedent partner of Economics Café Learning Centre (“ECLC”), was sentenced to five weeks’ jail and ordered to pay penalties of $72,770.79 for evading $24,256.93 in Income Tax.

Quek carried on the business of conducting individual and group tuition in economics. He also engaged in the sale of economics textbooks to his students. Investigations revealed that Quek under-reported the sales and net profits of ECLC in its Partnership Income Tax return (Form P) for Year of Assessment (YA) 2020 by omitting sales revenue from individual tuition and the sale of economic textbooks. Quek’s share of the ECLC partnership profits was also under-reported in his personal Income Tax returns for YA 2020 (Form B).

The total amount of trade income omitted by Quek was $150,867.00, resulting in $24,256.93 of Income Tax undercharged.

IRAS’ audit programme uncovered the offence

Prior to his conviction, Quek was audited by IRAS in 2016 and placed under IRAS’ Post Compliance Surveillance (“PCS”) Programme. He was supposed to make improvements in his income tax reporting and record-keeping. During IRAS’ PCS Programme audit in 2020, IRAS detected that Quek had wilfully evaded taxes. He is the second recalcitrant taxpayer under the PCS Programme to be prosecuted by IRAS.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/news-events...enalties-of--72-770.79-for-income-tax-evasion

If he is successful, why evade peanuts amount of taxes?

 

[winnipegjets]

Sinkapore should teach Trumonomics; that will ingratiate us with DJT.