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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2011/schedule-23/paragraph-34",
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  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2011",
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  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/34",
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  "number": "34",
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  "text": "(1) Liability to a penalty under paragraph 30 or 31 does not arise if the data-holder satisfies HMRC or (on an appeal notified to the tribunal) the tribunal that there is a reasonable excuse for the failure.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) an insufficiency of funds is not a reasonable excuse unless attributable to events outside the data-holder's control,\n(b) if the data-holder relies on another person to do anything, that is not a reasonable excuse unless the data-holder took reasonable care to avoid the failure,\n(c) if the data-holder had a reasonable excuse for the failure but the excuse has ceased, the data-holder is to be treated as having continued to have the excuse if the failure is remedied without unreasonable delay after the excuse ceased.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2017/10",
      "affecting_title": "Finance Act 2017"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:31.813616+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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