SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Penalties: offshore income etc

Schedule 24 to FA 2007

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For paragraph 10 substitute—

“10

(1)

If a person who would otherwise be liable to a penalty of a percentage shown in column 1 of the Table (a “standard percentage”) has made a disclosure, HMRC must reduce the standard percentage to one that reflects the quality of the disclosure.

(2)

But the standard percentage may not be reduced to a percentage that is below the minimum shown for it—

(a)

in the case of a prompted disclosure, in column 2 of the Table, and

(b)

in the case of an unprompted disclosure, in column 3 of the Table.

Standard %

Minimum % for prompted disclosure

Minimum % for unprompted disclosure

30%

15%

0%

45%

22.5%

0%

60%

30%

0%

70%

35%

20%

105%

52.5%

30%

140%

70%

40%

100%

50%

30%

150%

75%

45%

200%

100%

60%”.