Income Tax Management Act (Cap. 372)
Income Tax Management Act (Cap. 372), article 49
49. (1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with
any of the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of any rules ma de
thereunder shall be guilty of an offence and, unless another
punishment is specifically provided by the Income Tax Acts, he
shall be liable on conviction to a fine ( multa ) of not less than
twenty-three euro (23) and not exceeding one hundred and sixtee n
euro (116).
Cap. 446.
(2) Where a person is, on or after 1st July 1977, found guilty o f
an offence under any of the provisions of the Income Tax Acts a nd
is not sentenced to imprisonment for that offence the court sha ll
expressly warn him that if, within five years from the date of the
warning, he is again found guilty of another offence under any of
the provisions of the Income Tax Acts (whether of the same natu re
or not) he shall be sentenced, in addition to any other punishm ent,
to not less than three days imprisonment or to a fine ( multa ) of one
thousand and five hundred euro (€1500); and a person so found
guilty on a second or subsequent occasion, within the period
aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the
Probation Act, or in any other enactment, be sentenced to
imprisonment for a term of not less than three days or a fine ( multa )
of five thousand euro (€5000), in addition to any other punishm ent
except imprisonment for a longer term.
Penalty for failure
to comply with
notice.
Amended by:
L.N. 425 of 2007;
I. 2008.7.
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