11Act now
Assessment of sales tax and recovery
A notice under section 11 of the Sales Tax Act proposes an assessment of sales tax you are said to have short paid or wrongly claimed, and recovery of that amount.
Sales Tax Act 1990Time you have
As stated, commonly 15 days to show cause.
If you ignore it
The order is passed with the tax, penalty and default surcharge, and recovery proceedings follow.
Why you got it
Why this arrived
- Input tax was claimed against invoices from a blacklisted supplier
- Output tax was under declared against your recorded sales
- Returns were not filed for the period
What to do
What to do now
- Establish the supplier's status on the date of the transaction, not today's date
- Show payment through banking channels against each disputed invoice
- Where the supplier defaulted but you paid in good faith through the bank, argue that specifically
Documents
What to gather
- The notice with the schedule of disputed invoices
- The invoices and the corresponding bank payments
- Sales tax returns for the period
- Goods received notes or delivery evidence
Send us the notice before the deadline
Photograph every page and send it on WhatsApp. We read it the same day and tell you the real exposure, not the worst case. Our principal is a licensed Income Tax Practitioner and can be authorised on your IRIS account to reply and appear for you.
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