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%”.