Paragraph 95

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 6 para. 5(3) word omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(a)
Sch. 6 para. 19 20 omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 20A omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 5(3) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(a)
Sch. 6 para. 20B omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(i)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(ii)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(iii)
Sch. 6 para. 149A omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(d)

(1)

Where a person—

(a)

becomes a party to any agreement under or by means of which a supply of a taxable commodity is or is to be made, or

(b)

makes arrangements for any other person to become a party to such an agreement,

he is guilty of an offence if he does so in the belief that levy chargeable on the supply will be evaded.

(2)

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), a person guilty of an offence under this paragraph shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of ~~F1level 5 on the standard scale~~ £20,000.

(3)

In the case of any offence under this paragraph, where ~~F2level 5 on the standard scale~~ the amount of £20,000 mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) is less than three times the sum of the amounts of levy which are shown to be amounts that were or were intended to be evaded in respect of the supply in question, the penalty shall be the amount equal to three times that sum (instead of ~~level 5 on the standard scale~~ the amount of £20,000 mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)).

(4)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) the amounts of levy that were or were intended to be evaded shall be taken to include—

(a)

the amount of any tax credit, and

(b)

the amount of any repayment of levy,

which was, or was intended to be, obtained in circumstances where there was no entitlement to it.

(5)

In determining for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) how much levy (in addition to any amount falling within sub-paragraph (4)) was or was intended to be evaded, no account shall be taken of the extent (if any) to which any liability to levy of any person fell, or would have fallen, to be reduced by the amount of any tax credit or repayments of levy to which he was, or would have been, entitled.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sum in Sch. 6 para. 95(2) substituted for words (E.W.) (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(5)(a) (with reg. 5(1))
F2: Words in Sch. 6 para. 95(3) substituted (E.W.) (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(5)(b) (with reg. 5(1))

Notes on Schedule 6

Modifications

C1: Sch. 6 modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Climate Change Levy (Suspension of Recycling Exemption) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1023), arts. 1, 2, 3
C2: Sch. 6 modified (retrospective to 26.3.2013) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 42 para. 1(1)