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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2009/schedule-56/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/10",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/56/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If HMRC think it right because of special circumstances, they may reduce a penalty under any paragraph of this Schedule.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “special circumstances” does not include—\n(a) ability to pay, or\n(b) the fact that a potential loss of revenue from one taxpayer is balanced by a potential over-payment by another.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1) the reference to reducing a penalty includes a reference to—\n(a) staying a penalty, and\n(b) agreeing a compromise in relation to proceedings for a penalty.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 56 paras. 9-18 applied in part (with modifications) (17.7.2014) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), s. 226(7)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 6.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/466, art. 3"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 6.4.2011 for specified purposes by S.I. 2011/702, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 17.7.2013 for specified purposes by 2013 c. 29, Sch. 34 para. 12Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 15.9.2016 for specified purposes by 2016 c. 24, s. 113(18) (with s. 117)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 6.4.2018 for specified purposes by S.I. 2018/468, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 12.2.2019 for specified purposes by 2019 c. 1, Sch. 2 para. 30(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "Sch. 56 para. 9 in force at 1.4.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1409, reg. 2(b)"
    }
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