United Kingdom VAT & Duties Tribunals Decisions

Briggs (t/a Prontaprint) v Customs & Excise [2003] UKVAT V18259 (08 August 2003)

MANCHESTER TRIBUNAL CENTRE Reference No: MAN/03/257

N & E B BRIGGS t/a PRONTAPRINT Appellant

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THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS & EXCISE Respondents

Tribunal Chairman: Miss J Warburton

Sitting in public at Manchester on the 17 July 2003

DIRECTION

under Rule 30(8)

This appeal against a decision of the Respondents with respect to a surcharge assessment dated the 17 January 2003 in the sum of £ 1001.70 and being a reasonable excuse appeal as defined by rule 2 of the Value Added Tax Tribunals Rules 1986 as amended coming on for hearing this day

And upon hearing Mr N Briggs, Partner, for the Appellant and Mr C Owen of the Solicitor's office of HM Customs and Excise for the Respondents

And this tribunal having heard this appeal and having announced its decision

And the Appellant and the Respondents by their said representatives stating pursuant to rule 30(8) of the said Rules as amended that they do not require the said decision to be recorded in a written document in accordance with rule 30(1) of the said Rules

This tribunal finds that the Appellant does not have a reasonable excuse for the default which resulted in the Respondents making the assessment under appeal

And this tribunal directs that this appeal is dismissed

And that there is to be no direction as to costs

MISS J WARBURTON

CHAIRMAN

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