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Version date: 6 February 2011 - onwards

45. Amendment of Chapter 1 of Part 2 (consolidation and modernisation of general excise law) of Finance Act 2001.

Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Finance Act 2001 is amended by inserting the following after section 99A:

99B. Penalty for deliberately or carelessly making incorrect returns, etc.

(1) In this section—

‘carelessly’ means failure to take reasonable care;

‘liability to tax’ means a liability to the amount of the difference specified in subsection (11) or (12) arising from any matter referred to in subsection (2), (3), (5) or (6);

‘period’ means taxable period, accounting period or other period, as the context requires;

‘prompted qualifying disclosure’, in relation to a person, means a qualifying disclosure that has been made to the Commissioners or to an officer in the period between—

(a) the date on which a person is notified by an officer of the date on which an investigation or inquiry into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person will start, and