SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9Plastic packaging tax: secondary liability and assessment notices and joint and several liability notices

PART 2Joint and several liability notices

Revocation

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1

After being given a joint and several liability notice R must notify the Commissioners if paragraph 10(2)(a) or, as the case may be, (3)(a) (or both), does not apply or ceases to apply to R, including as a result of R ceasing to have dealings with P, at any time within the period of two years mentioned in paragraph 9.

2

If—

a

R notifies the Commissioners under sub-paragraph (1) within the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which R is given the joint and several liability notice (the “cancellation period”), and

b

as a result of the notification the Commissioners consider that paragraph 10(2)(a) or, as the case may be, (3)(a), does not apply to R, including as a result of R ceasing to have dealings with P during the cancellation period,

the Commissioners must notify R that the joint and several liability notice is revoked with the result that R is not liable to pay any plastic packaging tax as mentioned in paragraph 9.

3

If R does not notify the Commissioners under sub-paragraph (1), or notifies them only after the end of the cancellation period, R must be treated in relation to the period of liability as—

a

knowing that R is concerned in, or in the taking of steps with a view to, P not paying plastic packaging tax as mentioned in paragraph 10(2), or

b

knowing that P has not paid and intends not to pay tax as mentioned in paragraph 10(3).

4

The period of liability is—

a

if R does not notify the Commissioners under sub-paragraph (1) within the period of two years mentioned in paragraph 9, that period of two years, or

b

if R does notify the Commissioners under sub-paragraph (1) within that period of two years but after the cancellation period, and as a result of the notification the Commissioners accept that paragraph 10(2)(a) or, as the case may be, (3)(a), does not apply to R—

i

the cancellation period, or,

ii

if the Commissioners consider that paragraph 10(2)(a) or, as the case may be, (3)(a), applied to R after the cancellation period, the period beginning with the day on which the joint and several liability notice was given to R and ending with the day on which the Commissioners consider that paragraph 10(2)(a) or, as the case may be, (3)(a), ceased to apply to R.

5

The Commissioners must inform R and P of the result of a notification under sub-paragraph (1) within the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which they are given the notification.