The launch of the fourth Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is now underway. HMRC has set out the penalties in place for those caught abusing the scheme.
HMRC have stated that an over claimed grant is if an individual has received any amount of grant which the self-employed individual was not entitled to receive or was higher that the entitled amount stated by HMRC at the time the claim was made.
Any recognised overpayment has to be notified to HMRC within 90 days of receipt of an SEISS grant.
It has been stated that HMRC will consider if the taxpayer was aware of the amount they were entitled to when determining the penalty amount. They will also consider if the grant became repayable or chargeable to tax because the individual’s circumstances changed.
If an individual was aware, they were not entitled to receive a grant but did not inform the HMRC within the notification period, the law will treat this failure as deliberate and concealed. Therefore, resulting in a penalty of up to 100% of the amount received from the SEISS grant that they were not entitled to receive or keep.
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