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15(1)If a person fails to make a return on or before the due date and condition A or condition B is met, the person is liable to a penalty (but see sub-paragraphs (5) and (9)).U.K.
(2)Condition A is that—
(a)the person is awarded a penalty point in respect of the failure (including where the penalty point is awarded in respect of the failure and another failure or other failures), and
(b)on being awarded that penalty point, or on being awarded after that failure a penalty point in respect of an earlier failure (or earlier failures), the person has the maximum number of penalty points for the group of returns to which the return belongs.
(3)Condition B is that the failure occurs on a day on which the person has the maximum number of penalty points for the group of returns to which the return belongs.
(4)The amount of a penalty under this paragraph is £200.
(5)A person is not liable to more than one penalty per month in respect of a failure to make a return in a digital reporting sub-group of returns, even if in that month there is more than one failure to make a return in that digital reporting sub-group on or before the due date.
(6)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5), digital reporting sub-groups (1) and (2) of group 1B or 2B are to be treated as a single digital reporting sub-group.
(7)If—
(a)a person carries on more than one business and in relation to two or more of those businesses is required to make returns belonging to digital reporting sub-group (4) of group 1B or 2B or digital reporting sub-group (2) of group 3B, and
(b)the due dates for the returns belonging to the digital reporting sub-group in question do not all fall within the same month of a calendar quarter,
sub-paragraph (5) is to be read in relation to that digital reporting sub-group as if references to a month were references to a calendar quarter.
(8)“Calendar quarter” means a period of 3 months beginning with 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October.
(9)If there is more than one failure in a month or calendar quarter (as the case may be) to make a return in a digital reporting sub-group of returns on or before the due date (see sub-paragraphs (5) and (7)), the one penalty for the month or calendar quarter to which the person is liable by virtue of this paragraph is for all of those failures.
(10)See paragraphs 19 to 21 for further rules about liability to a penalty.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 24 para. 15 in force at 1.1.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/1278, reg. 2(1)
I2Sch. 24 para. 15 in force at 6.4.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2024/440, reg. 2(1)
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