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Chapter CH84645

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Vincent
Published date11 March 2016
Record NumberCH84645
CourtHM Revenue & Customs
IssuerHM Revenue & Customs

You must check the date from which these rules apply for the tax or duty you are dealing with. See CH81011 for full details.

Once you have attributed the deliberate inaccuracy to one or more of the company officers, if there are grounds to suspect that

  • the company may soon become insolvent, or
  • the company has becomes insolvent but has not yet been struck off or dissolved,

you must issue the penalty notice to the company and a personal liability notice, see CH406300, to each of the liable officers as a matter of urgency.

Any grounds for suspicion that the company may become insolvent should to be supported by evidence, for example, where there are cash flow problems, insufficient assets to cover liabilities, or evidence of pheonixism.

There is further guidance about insolvency in general in the Insolvency Information Notes.

When the company is likely to become insolvent you do not need to establish whether or not the liable officers gained or sought to gain personally from the deliberate inaccuracy.

Where there are grounds to suspect insolvency, you must pursue payment of all or part of the penalty from all of the liable officers, see CH84610. You should split the company penalty equally between the liable officers, see CH406200.

There may however be circumstances where you have already fully established that one or more liable officers have gained or attempted to gain personally before you suspect that the company may become insolvent. Where this is the case once you suspect that the company may become insolvent, it would be perfectly reasonable to take account of the amount the officer or officers attempted to gain by when issuing the personal liability notices. You must however split any balance equally between the remaining liable officers, see CH406200.

(This content has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)

If at the time when you are issuing the penalty assessment to the company you have decided that a penalty is not to be apportioned to the company’s officer or officers, you cannot pursue the officer or officers for payment...

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