Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

143.   Offences: by employers or employees

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    (1)   Any person who—

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      (a)     being an employer—

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        (i)     within the prescribed time, fails to register as an employer, or to notify any change of address or to notify that he or she has ceased to be an employer,

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        (ii)     within the prescribed time, fails to deduct any amount of tax from remuneration paid to an employee,

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        (iii)     within the prescribed time, fails to pay to the Comptroller any amount of tax deducted from remuneration paid to an employee,

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        (iv)     fails to comply with any direction issued by the Comptroller under Schedule 4,

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        (v)     fails to maintain a record of remuneration paid to his or her employees and tax deducted therefrom,

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        (vi)     within the prescribed time, fails to deliver to any employee a certificate of tax deducted from remuneration,

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        (vii)     within the prescribed time, fails to furnish to the Comptroller an annual return of tax deductions and remittances; or

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      (b)     being an employee, within the prescribed time, fails to lodge the further declaration required by paragraph 3(5)(b) of Schedule 4 upon ceasing to be entitled to any of the deductions or allowances claimed by him or her in a declaration previously furnished by him or her in respect of that year of income,

commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 or to imprisonment for one year.