Section 14B: Interest on late payment of unpaid duty, excise duty
This section is inserted by Act No 18 of 2016, section 11.
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14B. Interest on late payment of unpaid duty, excise duty
and taxes
(1) A person who fails to pay duty, excise duty and taxes
due shall, in addition to the unpaid duty, excise duty and taxes,
pay to the Director-General, interest for the period during which
the unpaid duty, excise duty and taxes remain unpaid.
(2) The interest under subsection (1) shall be charged at
the rate of 0.5 per cent of the unpaid duty, excise duty and taxes
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for each or part of each month for which the duty, excise duty
and taxes remain unpaid.
(d) in section 16, in subsection (1), by inserting, after the words
“airway bills”, the words “, seaway bills”;
(e) by inserting, after section 16B, the following new section –
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- What interest rate applies to unpaid customs duty or excise duty?