Part 9Penalties
Civil penalties
141EAShortfall penalty and provisional tax
Despite sections 141A to 141E, a provisional taxpayer who uses a GST ratio in a tax year to determine the amount of an instalment of provisional tax payable for the tax year is not liable to pay a shortfall penalty in the following circumstances:
- the taxpayer pays by the instalment date the amount, determined using the GST ratio, of the instalment but underpays their annual liability:
- the taxpayer pays by the instalment date the amount, determined using the GST ratio, of the instalment but the GST ratio is changed after the instalment date by a reassessment of their residual income tax.
Notes
- Section 141EA: inserted, on (applying for income years corresponding to 2008–09 and subsequent tax years), by section 251(1) of the Taxation (Depreciation, Payment Dates Alignment, FBT, and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (2006 No 3).


