Schedule 9ZB, Part 4, paragraph 24

Where— the person preparing the certificate is liable to a penalty. a person who makes, or is to make, an acquisition of goods in Northern Ireland from a member State prepares a certificate for the purposes of paragraph 19(1)(d), and the certificate is incorrect, The amount of the penalty is the amount of VAT actually chargeable on the acquisition. A person is not liable to a penalty under sub-paragraph (1) if the person satisfies the Commissioners or, on appeal, a tribunal that there is a reasonable excuse for having prepared the certificate in question. If a person is convicted of an offence (whether under this Act or otherwise) by reason of preparing an incorrect certificate for the purposes of paragraph 19(1)(d), the person is not liable to a penalty under sub-paragraph (1). A penalty under sub-paragraph (1) is to be treated, for the purposes of sections 76 and 83 (assessments and appeals), as if it were a penalty under section 62 (incorrect certificates). Section 62 has effect as if in subsection (1)(a)(ii), after “18C(1)(c)” there were inserted “ or paragraph 19(3)(d) of Schedule 9ZB (Northern Ireland fiscal warehouses) ”.

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