INCOME TAX ACT 1967 (ACT 53)
PART VIII - OFFENCES AND PENALTIES




Section 124. Power to compound offences and abate or remit penalties.




(1) Where any person has committed any offence under this Act, the Director General may at any time before conviction compound the offence and order that person to pay such sum of money, not exceeding the amount of the maximum fine and any special penalty to which that person would have been liable if he had been convicted of the offence, as he thinks fit:

Provided that the Director General shall not exercise his powers under this section unless that person in writing admits that he has committed the offence and requests the Director General to deal with the offence under this section.

(2) Where under this section the Director General compounds an offence committed by any person and makes an order accordingly-

(3) The Director General may abate or remit any penalty imposed under this Act except a penalty imposed on conviction.



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