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The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraphs 16 and 17 of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 1999[1], hereby make the following Regulations: Citation, commencement and effect 1. - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Stamp Duty (Collection and Recovery of Penalties) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st October 1999. (2) These Regulations have effect in relation to penalties in respect of things done or omitted on or after 1st October 1999. Interpretation 2. In these Regulations -
The Management Act: provisions to apply TABLE
Issue of demand notes and receipts 60. - (1) Every collector shall, when a stamp duty penalty becomes due and payable, make demand of the respective sums given to him in charge to collect, from the persons charged therewith, or at the places of their last abode, as the case may require. (2) On payment of the penalty, the collector shall if so requested give a receipt. Distraint by collectors 61. - (1) If a person neglects or refuses to pay the sum charged, upon demand made by the collector, the collector may distrain upon the goods and chattels of the person charged (in this section referred to as "the person in default"). (2) For the purpose of levying any such distress, a justice of the peace, on being satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for believing that a person is neglecting or refusing to pay a sum charged, may issue a warrant in writing authorising a collector to break open, in the daytime, any house or premises, calling to his assistance any constable. Every such constable shall, when so required, aid and assist the collector in the execution of the warrant and in levying the distress in the house or premises. (3) A levy or warrant to break open shall be executed by, or under the direction of, and in the presence of, the collector. (4) A distress levied by the collector shall be kept for five days, at the costs and charges of the person in default. (5) If the person in default does not pay the sum due, together with the costs and charges, the distress shall be appraised by one or more independent persons appointed by the collector, and shall be sold by public auction by the collector for payment of the sum due and all costs and charges. Any overplus coming by the distress, after the deduction of the costs and charges and of the sum due, shall be restored to the owner of the goods distrained. (6) The Treasury may by regulations make provision with respect to -
(b) the costs and charges recoverable where distress has been levied;
and any such regulations shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.
(b) stating that the collector has demanded payment under section 60 of this Act from each such person of the amount due by him; (c) stating that 14 days have elapsed since the date of such demand without payment of the said amount; and (d) specifying the amount due and unpaid by each such person,
shall grant a summary warrant in a form prescribed by Act of Sederunt authorising the recovery, by any of the diligences mentioned in subsection (2) below, of the amount remaining due and unpaid.
(b) an earnings arrestment; (c) an arrestment and action of furthcoming or sale.
Sheriff officer's fees and outlays Magistrates' courts 65. - (1) Any amount due and payable by way of a stamp duty penalty which does not exceed £2,000 shall, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recoverable summarily as a civil debt by proceedings commenced in the name of the collector. (2) All or any of the sums in respect of stamp duty penalties from any one person and payable to any one collector (being sums which are by law recoverable summarily) may, whether or not they are due in respect of the same act or omission, be included in the same complaint, summons, order, warrant or other document required by law to be laid before justices or to be issued by justices, and every such document as aforesaid shall, as respects each such sum, be construed as a separate document and its invalidity as respects any one such sum shall not affect its validity as respects any other such sum. (3) Proceedings under this section may be brought in England and Wales at any time within one year from the time when the matter complained of arose. (4) It is hereby declared that in subsection (1) above the expression "recoverable summarily as a civil debt" in respect of proceedings in Northern Ireland means recoverable in proceedings under Article 62 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. (5) The Treasury may by order made by statutory instrument increase the sum specified in subsection (1) above; and any such statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament. County courts 66. - (1) A stamp duty penalty due and payable may, in England and Wales, and in Northern Ireland where the amount does not exceed the limit specified in Article 10(1) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, without prejudice to any other remedy, be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith as a debt due to the Crown by proceedings in a county court commenced in the name of a collector. (2) An officer of the Board who is authorised by the Board to do so may address the court in proceedings under this section in a county court in England and Wales. (3) In this section as it applies in Northern Ireland the expression "county court" shall mean a county court held for a division under the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980. (4) Sections 21 and 42(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply as if any reference in those provisions to any enactment included a reference to this section, and Part III of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (general civil jurisdiction) shall apply for the purposes of this section in Northern Ireland. Inferior courts in Scotland 67. - (1) In Scotland, a stamp duty penalty due and payable may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith as a debt due to the Crown by proceedings commenced in the name of a collector in the sheriff court. (1A) An officer of the Board who is authorised by the Board to do so may address the court in any proceedings under this section. (2) Sections 65 and 66 above shall not apply in Scotland. High Court, etc. 68. - (1) Any stamp duty penalty may be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith in the High Court as a debt due to the Crown, or by any other means whereby any debt of record or otherwise due to the Crown can, or may at any time, be sued for and recovered, as well as by the other means specially provided by this Act for levying the penalty. (2) All matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court under this section shall be assigned in Scotland to the Court of Session sitting as the Court of Exchequer. Interest on stamp duty penalties 69. Interest charged under section 103A of this Act on a stamp duty penalty shall be treated for the purposes -
(b) of section 35(2)(g)(i) of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (rules of court to impose restrictions on set-off and counterclaim where the proceedings or set-off or counterclaim relate to taxes) and of any rules of court (including county court rules) for England and Wales or Northern Ireland, which impose such a restriction, and (c) of section 35(2)(b) of the said Act of 1947 as set out in section 50 of that Act (which imposes corresponding restrictions in Scotland),
as if it were a stamp duty penalty due and payable in respect of the same act or omission as that to which the stamp duty penalty on which the interest is charged relates.
(b) that payment of the penalty has not been made to him or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector,
shall be sufficient evidence that the sum mentioned in the certificate is unpaid and is due to the Crown, and any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved. Interest on stamp duty penalties 103A. A stamp duty penalty shall carry interest at the rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 for the purpose of section 15A of the Stamp Act 1891 from the date on which it becomes due and payable until payment. Trustees 107A. - (2) Subject to subsection (3) below, where the trustees of a settlement are liable to a stamp duty penalty, or to interest under subsection 103A of this Act on such a penalty, the penalty or interest may be recovered (but only once) from any one or more of those trustees. (3) No amount may be recovered by virtue of subsection (2) above from a person who did not become a trustee until after the time when the act or omission which caused the penalty to become payable occurred. Responsibility of company officers 108. - (1) Everything to be done by a company under the relevant enactments relating to stamp duty shall be done by the company acting through the proper officer of the company, or, except where a liquidator has been appointed for the company, through such other person as may for the time being have the express, implied or apparent authority of the company to act on its behalf for the purpose, and service on a company of any document under or in pursuance of the relevant enactments relating to stamp duty may be effected by serving it on the proper officer. (2) A stamp duty penalty for which a company which is not a body corporate, or which is a body corporate not incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 or any other enactment forming part of the law of the United Kingdom, or by Charter, is liable, may, at any time after the penalty becomes due, and without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered from the proper officer of the company, and that officer may retain out of any money coming into his hands on behalf of the company sufficient sums to pay that penalty, and, so far as he is not so reimbursed, shall be entitled to be indemnified by the company in respect of the liability so imposed on him. (3) For the purposes of this section -
(b) the proper officer of a company which is not a body corporate or for which there is no proper officer within paragraph (a) above, shall be the treasurer or the person acting as treasurer, of the company.
Loss, destruction or damage to notices of determination, etc.
(ii) the amount of the penalty, or (iii) any other matter specified therein, or
(b) by reason of any variance between the notice and the determination.
Delivery and service of documents
(b) in the case of a liquidator of a company, at his address for the purposes of the liquidation.
(5) Nothing in this section applies to any notice or other document required or authorised by the Special Commissioners Regulations to be sent or delivered to, or served on, any person.
(b) the Stamp Duty (Collection and Recovery of Penalties) Regulations 1999,
(This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations provide for the collection and recovery of penalties relating to stamp duty. They apply to penalties to which Part II of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 1999 applies, that is all penalties under the enactments relating to stamp duty other than those under section 15B of the Stamp Act 1891 (penalty on late stamping). Like the provisions of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 1999, the Regulations have effect in relation to penalties in respect of things done or omitted on or after 1st October 1999. Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and effect, and Regulation 2 for interpretation. Regulation 3 applies the provisions of the Taxes Management Act 1970 specified in the first column of the Table in Part I of the Schedule to the Regulations, with the modifications specified in the second column of that Table. Those provisions, as modified where appropriate, are set out in Part II of the Schedule. Notes: [1] 1999 c.16.back [3] Relevant amendments were made to those enactments, and to the Stamp Act 1891, by paragraphs 2 to 8 of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 1999.back [5] Sections 15, 15A and 15B were substituted for section 15 by section 109(1) of the Finance Act 1999.back [6] Section 61 was amended by section 152 of, and Part VIII of Schedule 17 to, the Finance Act 1989 (c.26).back [7] Sections 63 and 63A were substituted for section 63 by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.18).back [8] Section 65 was amended by section 57(1) of the Finance Act 1984 (c.43), paragraph 19 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1994 (c.9), and paragraph 30 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1998 (c.36).back [9] Section 66 was amended by section 57(2) of the Finance Act 1984, Part II of Schedule I to the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3)), and Part I of the Schedule to the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/724(L.5)).back [10] Section 67(1) was amended by section 58 of, and Part III of Schedule 15 to, the Finance Act 1976 (c.40) and section 67(1A) was inserted by section 156 of the Finance Act 1995 (c.4).back [11] Section 69 was amended by section 86(1) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c.51), paragraph 20 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1994, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4, and paragraph 31 of Schedule 19, to the Finance Act 1998.back [12] Section 70(2) was amended by paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1994.back [13] Section 103A was inserted by paragraph 33 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1994, and was amneded by section 115(8) of the Finance Act 1995, and paragraph 40 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1998.back [14] Section 107A was inserted by section 103(5) of the Finance Act 1995.back [15] Section 108 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c.9), and paragraph 7 of Schedule 14 to the Finance Act 1993 (c.34).back [16] Section 113(1D) was inserted by section 168(7)(a) of the Finance Act 1989, and section 113(3) was amended by section 168(7)(b) of the Finance Act 1989.back [17] Section 114 was amended by section 160(5) of the Finance Act 1989.back [18] Section 115(5) was inserted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the General and Special Commissioners (Amendment of Enactments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1813).back [19] Relevant amendments to section 118(1) were made by paragraph 32 of Schedule 29 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1), Part VIII of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 1989, paragraph 34 of Schedule 2 to the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991 (c.50), paragraph 2(11)(c) of Schedule 10 to the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c.12), paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 1994/1813, section 103(6) of the Finance Act 1995, and section 123(14) of the Finance Act 1996 (c.8).back
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