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Version date: 15 December 2022 - onwards
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116A. 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 (3) or (5), as the case may be, arising from any matter referred to in subsection (2) or (4), as the case may be;

 '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 Revenue Commissioners or to a Revenue officer in the period between -

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