VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 26, 2026 /CNW/ -- The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Thi Nhan Nguyen, also known as Lynn Nguyen, of Vancouver, British Columbia, was sentenced on August 25, 2026, in the Provincial Court of British Columbia (Robson Square), to a nine (9) month conditional sentence and was fined a total of $103,785. Nguyen pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion under the Income Tax Act.
A CRA investigation revealed that Nguyen, who worked as a realtor during the offence period, wilfully failed to report a taxable gain from the sale of a Vancouver residential property, evading $103,785 in income tax.
Between January 6, 2012, and March 16, 2017, Nguyen engaged in a scheme to make it appear that a Vancouver residential property was her principal residence. To support that position, she took several steps over a number of years, including using the address for correspondence and collecting mail there. The property was occupied by a tenant from the time Nguyen became the registered owner in April 2012 until Nguyen disposed of her interest in the property in January 2015, selling a 50% interest to a purchaser and transferring the remaining 50% interest to a related party. She also failed to disclose the sale of the property to her tax preparer when filing her 2015 income tax return.
During a subsequent CRA audit, Nguyen continued to assert that the property was her principal residence and, in response to CRA requests for information in 2017, provided misleading information and documents through a representative in support of that claim.
All case-specific information above was obtained from the court records.
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