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Tax Collection and Management (Wales) Act 2016

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144Reasonable excuse for failure to keep and preserve recordsE+W
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(1)If a person who fails to comply with section 38 [F1, 38A] or 69 satisfies WRA or (on appeal) the tribunal that there is a reasonable excuse for the failure, there is no liability to a penalty under section 143 in relation to the failure.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1)—

(a)an insufficiency of funds is not a reasonable excuse unless attributable to events outside the person's control;

(b)where the person relies on another person to do anything, that is not a reasonable excuse unless the first person took reasonable care to avoid the failure;

(c)where the person had a reasonable excuse for the failure but the excuse has ceased, the person is to be treated as having continued to have the excuse if the failure is remedied without unreasonable delay after the excuse ceased.

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I1S. 144 in force at 1.4.2018 by S.I. 2018/33, art. 3

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