- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (16/03/1992)
- Gwreiddiol (Fel y'i Deddfwyd)
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(1)If, by the last day on which a taxable person is required in accordance with regulations under the principal Act to furnish a return for the prescribed accounting period, being a day falling on or after the day appointed under subsection (10) below,—
(a)the Commissioners have not received that return, or
(b)the Commissioners have received that return but have not received the amount of tax shown on the return as payable by him in respect of that period,
then that person shall be regarded for the purposes of this section as being in default in respect of that period.
(2)Subject to subsections (8) and (9) below, subsection (4) below applies in any case where—
(a)a taxable person is in default in respect of any two prescribed accounting periods; and
(b)the last day of the later one of those periods falls on or before the first anniversary of the last day of the earlier one; and
(c)the Commissioners serve notice on the taxable person (in this section referred to as a “surcharge liability notice”) specifying as a surcharge period for the purposes of this section a period ending on the first anniversary of the last day of the later period referred to in paragraph (b) above and beginning, subject to subsection (3) below, on the date of the notice.
(3)If a surcharge liability notice is served by reason of defaults in respect of two prescribed accounting periods and the second of those periods ends at or before the expiry of an existing surcharge period already notified to the taxable person concerned, the surcharge period specified in that notice shall be expressed as a continuation of the existing surcharge period and, accordingly, for the purposes of this section, that existing period and its extension shall be regarded as a single surcharge period.
(4)Subject to subsections (6) to (9) below, if a taxable person on whom a surcharge liability notice has been served is in default in respect of a prescribed accounting period ending within the surcharge period specified in (or extended by) that notice, he shall be liable to a surcharge equal to whichever is the greater of—
(a)the specified percentage of his outstanding tax for that period; and
(b)£30;
and the reference in paragraph (a) above to a person’s outstanding tax for a prescribed accounting period is a reference to so much of the tax for which he is liable in respect of that period as has not been paid by the last day on which he is required (as mentioned in subsection (1) above) to make a return for that period.
(5)Subject to subsections (6) to (9) below, the specified percentage referred to in subsection (4)(a) above shall be determined in relation to a prescribed accounting period by reference to the number of such periods in respect of which the taxable person is in default during the surcharge period, so that,—
(a)in relation to the first such prescribed accounting period, the specified percentage is 5 per cent.;
(b)in relation to the second such period, the specified percentage is 10 per cent.;
[F1(c)in relation to the third such period, the specified percentage is 15 per cent.; and
(d)in relation to each such period after the third, the specified percentage is 20 per cent.]
(6)If a person who, apart from this subsection, would be liable to a surcharge under subsection (4) above satisfies the Commissioners or, on appeal, a value added tax tribunal that, in the case of a default which is material to the surcharge,—
(a)the return or, as the case may be, the tax shown on the return was despatched at such a time and in such a manner that it was reasonable to expect that it would be received by the Commissioners within the appropriate time limit, or
(b)there is a reasonable excuse for the return or tax not having been so despatched,
he shall not be liable to the surcharge and for the purposes of the preceding provisions of this section he shall be treated as not having been in default in respect of the prescribed accounting period in question (and, accordingly, any surcharge liability notice the service of which depended upon that default shall be deemed not to have been served).
(7)For the purposes of subsection (6) above, a default is material to a surcharge if—
(a)it is the default which, by virtue of subsection (4) above, gives rise to the surcharge; or
(b)it is a default which was taken into account in the service of the surcharge liability notice upon which the surcharge depends and the person concerned has not previously been liable to a surcharge in respect of a prescribed accounting period ending within the surcharge period specified in or extended by that notice.
(8)In any case where—
(a)the conduct by virtue of which a person is in default in respect of a prescribed accounting period is also conduct falling within subsection (1) of section 17 above, and
(b)by reason of that conduct, the person concerned is assessed to a penalty under that section,
the default shall be left out of account for the purposes of subsections (2) to (5) above.
(9)If the Commissioners, after consultation with the Treasury, so direct, a default in respect of a prescribed accounting period specified in the direction shall be left out of account for the purposes of subsections (2) to (5) above.
(10)This section shall come into operation on such day as the Treasury may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 19(5) substituted (16.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 7(5) of the substituting Act) by Finance Act 1992 (c. 20), s. 7(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power of appointment conferred by s. 19(10) fully exercised (1.10.1986): S.I. 1986/968, art. 2
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