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Inland Revenue Act 2006 · As enacted · Chapter XIV · Deduction of Income Tax from Remuneration of Employees by Employers

127. Penalty for default

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Where any income tax for any pay period payable by any employer under the provisions of this Chapter is in default, such employer shall pay in addition to such tax–

(a)

a penalty of a sum equivalent to ten per centum of such tax; and

(b)

where such tax is not paid before the expiry of thirty days after it has begun to be in default, a further penalty of a sum equivalent to two per centum of the tax in default in respect of each further period of thirty days or part thereof, during which it remains in default:

Provided that—

(i)

the Commissioner-General may waive or reduce the amount of any such penalty payable by any employer, if such employer proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that the failure to pay was due to circumstances beyond his control and that he has paid the amount of the tax in default and has furnished the declaration required to be furnished at the time of such payment;

(ii)

the total amount payable as penalty under the preceding provisions of this section, shall in respect of the tax in default for any pay period, not exceed fifty per centum of the tax in default.

Read on from s 128

Chapter XV