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(1)Subsections (5) to (9) apply if an authorised officer becomes aware at any time that a person ( “ P ”) who is carrying on a business as a promoter—
(a)has, in the period of 3 years ending with that time, met one or more threshold conditions, and
(b)was carrying on a business as a promoter when P met that condition.
[F1(1A)Subsections (5) to (9) also apply if an authorised officer becomes aware at any time (“the relevant time”) that—
(a)a person has, in the period of 3 years ending with the relevant time, met one or more threshold conditions,
(b)at the relevant time another person (“P”) meets one or more of those conditions by virtue of Part 2 of Schedule 34 (meeting the threshold conditions: bodies corporate and partnerships), and
(c)P is, at the relevant time, carrying on a business as a promoter.]
(2)Part 1 of Schedule 34 sets out the threshold conditions and describes how they are met.
(3)Part 2 of that Schedule contains provision about [F2when a person is treated as meeting a threshold condition].
(4)See also Schedule 36 (which contains provision about the meeting of threshold conditions and other conditions by partnerships).
[F3(5)The authorised officer must determine—
(a)in a case within subsection (1), whether or not P's meeting of the condition mentioned in subsection (1)(a) (or, if more than one condition is met, the meeting of all of those conditions, taken together) should be regarded as significant in view of the purposes of this Part, or
(b)in a case within subsection (1A), whether or not—
F4(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii)P's meeting of the condition [F5(or, if more than one condition is met, the meeting of all of those conditions, taken together)] as mentioned in subsection (1A)(b),
should be regarded as significant in view of those purposes.]
[F6(5A)In determining under subsection (5)(b) whether or not P's meeting of the condition (or conditions) should be regarded as significant, the authorised officer must determine whether the meeting of that condition (or those conditions taken together) by the person mentioned in subsection (1A)(a) should be regarded as significant in view of the purposes of this Part.
(5B)If the officer determines that the meeting of the condition (or those conditions) by that person should be regarded as significant, the officer must determine that P's meeting of that condition (or those conditions) should be regarded as significant.]
(6)Subsection (5) does not apply if a conduct notice or a monitoring notice already has effect in relation to P.
(7)If the authorised officer determines under [F7subsection (5)(a)] that P's meeting of the condition or conditions in question should be regarded as significant, the officer must give P a conduct notice, unless subsection (8) applies.
[F8(7A)If the authorised officer determines under subsection (5)(b) that F9...—
F10(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)P's meeting of the condition or conditions as mentioned in subsection (1A)(b),
should be regarded as significant, the officer must give P a conduct notice, unless subsection (8) applies.]
(8)This subsection applies if the authorised officer determines that, having regard to the extent of the impact that P's activities as a promoter are likely to have on the collection of tax, it is inappropriate to give P a conduct notice.
[F11(8A)Where the authorised officer is required to make a determination under subsection (5), the officer must determine that the meeting of the condition (or if more than one is met, all of them) should be regarded as significant if P falls within the case described in paragraph 2 of Schedule 33A (multiple entity promoter).]
(9)The authorised officer must determine under subsection (5) that the meeting of the condition (or all the conditions) F12... should be regarded as significant if the condition (or any of the conditions) is in any of the following paragraphs of Schedule 34—
(a)paragraph 2 (deliberate tax defaulters);
(b)paragraph 3 (breach of Banking Code of Practice);
(c)paragraph 4 (dishonest tax agents);
(d)paragraph 6 (persons charged with certain offences);
(e)paragraph 7 (opinion notice of GAAR Advisory Panel).
[F13(10)If, as a result of subsection (1A), subsections (5) to (9) apply to a person, this does not prevent the giving of a conduct notice to the person mentioned in subsection (1A)(a).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 237(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(2)
F2Words in s. 237(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(3)
F3S. 237(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(4)
F4S. 237(5)(b)(i) and word omitted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 22(1)(a)(i)
F5Words in s. 237(5)(b)(ii) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 22(1)(a)(ii)
F6S. 237(5A)(5B) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 22(1)(b)
F7Words in s. 237(7) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(5)
F8S. 237(7A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(6)
F9Word in s. 237(7A) omitted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 22(1)(c)(i)
F10S. 237(7A)(a) omitted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 22(1)(c)(ii)
F11S. 237(8A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 30 para. 11
F12Words in s. 237(9) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(7)
F13S. 237(10) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 19 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 19 para. 2(8)
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