RPSM04104820 - Technical Pages: Taxation: Unauthorised payments: Scheme sanction charge: Amount

Amount of the scheme sanction charge

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The amount of the scheme sanction charge in any tax year is 40% of the total scheme chargeable payments made by the scheme in that tax year.

Where a scheme chargeable payment is an unauthorised payment and the unauthorised payments charge has been paid for that payment the amount of tax due is reduced.

The amount of the reduction is the lower of

  • the amount of the unauthorised payments charge that has been paid, or
  • 25% of the scheme chargeable payments that are ‘tax paid’.

A scheme chargeable payment is ‘tax paid’ if all or part of the unauthorised payments charge due has been paid.

Glossary ( RPSM20000000)