A Mellieha man was acquitted on appeal yesterday of failing to issue fiscal and VAT receipts.
Alfred Azzopardi, 39, was originally fined Lm200 for failing to issue fiscal receipts and VAT receipts at the Trade Fair grounds in Naxxar on May 4, 2001.
But Mr Justice Joseph Galea Debono ruled that Azzopardi could not have been found guilty since at the time sales were being made by a part time employee of A. Azzopardi Limited and the company was registered at the VAT department.