Finance Act 1989

168 Amendments consequential on section 167.U.K.

(1)In consequence of the amendment made by section 167 above the M1Taxes Management Act 1970 shall be amended in accordance withsubsections (2) to (8) below.

(2)In section 20A (power to call for papers of tax accountant)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words “awarded against him a penalty incurredby” there shall be substituted the words “a penalty imposed on”,

(b)in subsection (2), for the word “award” in the first place where itoccurs there shall be substituted the word “penalty” and for that wordin the second place where it occurs there shall be substituted the word “imposition”, and

(c)in subsection (4), for the words “award against” there shall besubstituted the words “imposition on” and for the word “award” thereshall be substituted the word “penalty”.

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(4)In section 102 (mitigation of penalties), for the words “recoverythereof” there shall be substituted the words “a penalty”.

(5)In section 105 (evidence)—

(a)the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (a) ofsubsection (1)—

“(a)pecuniary settlements may be accepted instead of a penalty beingdetermined, or proceedings being instituted, in relation to any tax,”,

(b)in paragraph (b) of subsection (2), for the words “sum” onwards thereshall be substituted the words “tax due from him”, and

(c)after that paragraph there shall be inserted the words “and

(c)any proceedings for a penalty or on appeal against the determination ofa penalty.”

(6)In section 112 (loss of documents etc.), the following subsection shallbe added at the end—

“(3)The references in subsection (1) above to assessments to tax includereferences to determinations of penalties; and in its application to suchdeterminations the proviso to that subsection shall have effect with theappropriate modifications.”

(7)In section 113 (form of documents)—

(a)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1C)—

“(1D)Where an officer of the Board has decided to impose a penalty undersection 100 of this Act and has taken all other decisions needed for arrivingat the amount of the penalty, he may entrust to any other officer of the Boardresponsibility for completing the determination procedure, whether by meansinvolving the use of a computer or otherwise, including responsibility forserving notice of the determination on the person liable to the penalty.”and

(b)in subsection (3)—

(i)after the words “Every assessment,” there shall be inserted the words “determination of a penalty,”,

(ii)after the words “notice of assessment” there shall be inserted thewords “, of determination”, and

(iii)after the words “levying tax” there shall be inserted the words “ordetermining a penalty”.

[F2(8)In paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 (rules for assigning proceedings toCommissioners), for the words “section 100(4)” there shall be substitutedthe words “section 100C or an appeal under section 100B against thedetermination of a penalty”.]

(9)In section 41 of the M2Development Land Tax Act 1976(administration of development land tax) the following subsection shall beinserted after subsection (1)—

“(1A)Nothing in sections 167 to 169 of the Finance Act 1989 shall apply topenalties relating to development land tax.”