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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom VAT & Duties Tribunals Decisions >> Redwood Engineering Recruitment Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2005] UKVAT V19128 (16 June 2005) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKVAT/2005/V19128.html Cite as: [2005] UKVAT V19128 |
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19128
LONDON TRIBUNAL CENTRE Reference No: LON/2005/191
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Appellant/Applicant
Respondents
REDWOOD ENGINEERING RECRUITMENT LTD Appellant
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HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS Respondents
Tribunal: STEPHEN OLIVER QC (Chairman)
SHAWAR SADEQUE
KEMAL HOSSEIN FCA
Sitting in public in London on 1 June 2005
DIRECTION
under Rule 30(8)
THIS APPEAL against a decision of the Respondents with respect to a Default Surcharge being a reasonable excuse appeal as defined by rule 2 of the Value Added Tax Tribunals Rules 1986 as amended coming on for hearing this day
AND UPON HEARING Simon Bird FCA For the Appellant and Philip Webb for the Respondents
AND THE parties present at the hearing by their said representatives stating pursuant to Rule 30(8) of the Value Added Tax Tribunals Rules 1986 as amended that they do not require the said decision to be recorded in a written document in accordance with Rule 30(1) of the said Rules
THIS TRIBUNAL FINDS THAT the Appellant did not have a reasonable excuse for the late payment: in particular it is not an excuse to say that had the company known it was in the default surcharge regime it would have paid on time. It should have known that. The problem arose because the financial officer's predecessor had not handed over to her properly
AND THIS TRIBUNAL DIRECTS THAT this appeal is DISMISSED
AND that there is to be no direction as to costs
STEPHEN OLIVER QC
Chairman
Release Date: 16 June 2005
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