Taxes Management Act 1970

103 Time limit for recovery of penalties

(1) Proceedings for the recovery of any penalty incurred under the Taxes Acts in connection with or in relation to tax may be commenced at any time within six years next after the date on which it was incurred, or at any later time allowed under the following provisions of this section.

(2) Proceedings for the recovery of any penalty from any person in connection with or in relation to any tax covered by any assessment may, where any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed by him or on his behalf in connection with or in relation to that tax, be commenced at any time within three years from the final determination of the amount of tax covered by the assessment:

Provided that this subsection shall not extend the time for the bringing of any proceedings against the personal representatives of any person by whom or on whose behalf any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed.

(3) Where the amount of any penalty to which a person is liable under the Taxes Acts is determined by reference to tax charged in an assessment for any chargeable period which is made not later than six years after the end of that chargeable period, proceedings for the recovery of the penalty may be commenced within three years from the final determination of the amount of that tax.

(4) In any proceedings for the recovery of a penalty which could not have been commenced but for subsection (3) above, any tax charged in an assessment made under section 37, 39 or 40(2) of this Act shall be left out of account in determining the amount of the penalty.