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MANCHESTER TRIBUNAL CENTRE Reference No: MAN/05/0105
EARL GREGORY and KEITH GRATRIX Appellants
and
HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS Respondents
Tribunal Chairman: Jean Warburton
Sitting in public in Manchester on the 28 July 2005
DIRECTION
under Rule 30(8)
This appeal against a decision of the Respondents with respect to ten surcharge assessments between April 2001 and June 2004 in the total sum of £24,043.11 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 Jim Dunlop, VAT Consultant, for the Appellants and Bernard Haley of the Acting Solicitor for HM Revenue and Customs for the Respondents
And this tribunal having heard this appeal and having announced its decision
And the Appellants and the Respondents by their said representatives stating pursuant to the 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 Appellants do have a reasonable excuse for the default surcharge assessments dated 21 July 2003 in the sum of £5,950.95, dated 14 May 2004 in the sum of £6,713.05 and dated 7 May 2004 in the sum of £4,603.10 but do not have a reasonable excuse for the other defaults which resulted in the Respondents making the assessments under appeal
And this tribunal directs that this appeal is allowed in part and that there is to be no direction as to costs
JEAN WARBURTON
CHAIRMAN
Release Date: 4 August 2005
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