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LONDON TRIBUNAL CENTRE Reference No: LON/2006/584
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Respondents
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THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS Respondents
Tribunal: MR EDWARD SADLER (Chairman)
MRS J M NEILL
Sitting in public in London on 6 December 2006
DIRECTION
under Rule 30(8)
THIS APPEAL against a decision of the Respondents with respect to a Default Surcharge 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
UPON HEARING Ms Morfudd Richards, Director for the Appellant and Mrs Pauline Crinnion, senior office of the Solicitor's Office of HM Revenue and Customs for the Respondents
AND THIS TRIBUNAL having heard this appeal and having announced its decision
AND THE parties present at the hearing by their said representatives stating pursuant to Rule 30(8) of the Value Added Tax Tribunals Rules 1986 as emended 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 there was no reasonable excuse for the late payment of VAT by the Appellant
AND THIS TRIBUNAL DIRECTS THAT this appeal is DISMISSED
AND that there is to be direction as to cost