Directors Penalty Notice

Director penalty notices

Company directors have a legal responsibility to ensure that their company meets its pay as you go (PAYG) withholding and superannuation guarantee charge (SGC) obligations.

The director of a company that fails to meet a PAYG withholding or SGC liability by the due date automatically becomes personally liable for a penalty equal to the unpaid amount.

When a PAYG withholding or SGC liability remains outstanding, we may issue a director penalty notice, although this is only necessary to enable us to start legal proceedings to recover the penalty. Even without issuing a notice, we can collect the penalty by other means, such as withholding a tax refund.

Please visit the below link for more info…

https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Payments-to-ATO/Difficulty-paying/What-if-you-can-t-pay-your-tax-/Stronger-measures/Director-penalty-notices/