K1 Construction Limited v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Decision date: 23 July 2010
Neutral citation: [2010] UKFTT 347 (TC)
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Short overview
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K1 Construction, a contractor with gross payment status under the CIS, appealed HMRC's cancellation of that status for the 12 months to 26 March 2009 on the basis that the compliance test had not been met. The Tribunal held that late filing/payments corrected only after the qualifying period could not be disregarded, that K1 had no reasonable excuse for the defaults, and that K1 failed the "reason to expect" test. K1's appeal was dismissed and the cancellation upheld.
Ratio decidendi
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The Tribunal treated compliance as assessed at the end of the qualifying period and held that paragraph 32 (Table 3) disregards do not cover defaults that were only rectified after that period ended; a taxpayer must show a reasonable excuse consisting of causes outside their control to avoid non-compliance; and a pattern of late returns/payments can support a finding that HMRC had no reason to expect future compliance.
Obiter dicta
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The Tribunal observed it was unnecessary to resolve disputes about alleged misallocation of two PAYE payments, and (with citation) noted it could not take proportionality of consequences into account when assessing compliance under these rules.
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