{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-scotland-and-tax-powers-act-2014/section-216G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-scotland-and-tax-powers-act-2014/section-216G.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/16",
  "legislation_title": "Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-scotland-and-tax-powers-act-2014",
  "path": "section/216G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "216G",
  "heading": "Reasonable excuse for failures under Chapter 5A",
  "text": "(1) If a person (“P”) satisfies Revenue Scotland or (on appeal) the tribunal that there is a reasonable excuse for a failure to comply with a requirement imposed by or under the AT(S) Act 2024 as described in section 216A(1), 216B(1), 216C(1), 216D(1), 216E(1) or 216F(1), liability to a penalty does not arise in relation to that failure.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) an insufficiency of funds is not a reasonable excuse unless attributable to events outside P's control,\n(b) where P relies on any other person to do anything, that is not a reasonable excuse unless P took reasonable care to avoid the failure, and\n(c) where P had a reasonable excuse for the failure but the excuse has ceased, P 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",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 5A inserted (1.4.2026) by Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 14), ss. 43(2), 64(2) (with s. 63); S.S.I. 2026/84, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 216G-216I inserted (1.4.2026) by Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 14), ss. 49(2), 64(2) (with s. 63); S.S.I. 2026/84, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/16/section/216G",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:01.828273+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}