Taxation Laws Amendment Act (No. 3) 1999 (11 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Running balance accounts, general interest charge and related matters

Part 1   Amendments

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

185   Section 221YHH

Repeal the section, substitute:

221YHH Failure to make deductions from prescribed payments

(1) If an eligible paying authority, other than a government body, which makes a prescribed payment to a payee does not deduct from the payment the amount required to be deducted under this Division, the eligible paying authority is liable to pay to the Commissioner an amount, by way of penalty, equal to the amount not deducted.

(2) The eligible paying authority must pay the penalty amount by the time by which the eligible paying authority, if it had deducted the amount required to be deducted, would have been required to pay that amount to the Commissioner.

(3) If any of the penalty amount remains unpaid after the time by which it is due to be paid, the eligible paying authority is liable to pay the general interest charge on the unpaid penalty amount for each day in the period that:

(a) started at the beginning of the day by which the penalty amount was due to be paid; and

(b) finishes at the end of the last day on which, at the end of the day, any of the following remains unpaid:

(i) the penalty amount;

(ii) general interest charge on any of the penalty amount.

Note: The general interest charge is worked out under Division 1 of Part IIA of theTaxation Administration Act 1953.