CH94800 - Penalties for VAT and Excise Wrongdoing: Calculating the penalty: Reducing the penalty: Maximum and minimum penalty percentages

These tables show the maximum and minimum penalty percentages for each wrongdoing, CH91200, depending on

  • the type of wrongdoing, CH93050, and
  • whether the disclosure is unprompted or prompted, CH94650.

Unprompted disclosure

 

Supply of product knowing it will be misused

Other VAT & Excise wrongdoing

Deliberate and concealed

Deliberate

Non-Deliberate and no reasonable excuse (this does not apply to Landfill Tax wrongdoing)

Maximum penalty

100%

100%

70%

30%

Minimum penalty

30%

30%

20%

10%

Prompted disclosure

 

Supply of product knowing it will be misused

Other VAT & Excise wrongdoing

Deliberate and concealed

Deliberate

Non-Deliberate and no reasonable excuse (this does not apply to Landfill Tax wrongdoing)

Maximum penalty

100%

100%

70%

30%

Minimum penalty

50%

50%

35%

20%

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