FEES 5.7 Payment

A firm must pay annually to the FCA the general levy on or before the later of the last working day in March and 30 calendar days after the date when the invoice is issued by the FCA.

Where the FCA grants a person’s application for annulment of a cancellation or variation of Part 4A permission under Schedule 6A to the Act and on the date the annulment takes effect the time for payment in FEES 5.7.1R has passed, then that time for payment in that rule does not apply, but a person must pay to the FCA the general levy on the date on which the person’s annulment takes effect.

A firm liable to pay fees or levies under FEES 5.7.1R must do so using one of the methods set out in FEES 2.1.12R (unless FEES 2.1.13R applies).

A firm does not need to pay the general levy on the date it is due under the relevant provision in FEES 5.7.1R, if that date falls during a period in which the type of circumstances set out in GEN 1.3.2R (Emergency) exists, and that firm has reasonable grounds to believe that those circumstances impair its ability to pay the levy, in which case it must be paid on or before the fifth business day after the end of that period.