Related provisions for FEES 6.2.8
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The FSCS may at any time impose a management expenses levy or a compensation costs levy, provided that the FSCS has reasonable grounds for believing that the funds available to it to meet relevant expenses are, or will be, insufficient, taking into account:(1) in the case of a management expenses levy, the level of the FSCS's anticipatedexpenditure in respect of those expenses in the financial year of the compensation scheme in relation to which the levy is imposed; and(2) in
The FSCS may impose one or more levies in a financial year to meet either its management expenses or its compensation costs. The FSCS may also impose interim levies, as part of its overall levy commitment. This flexibility allows the FSCS to phase its financing over the course of a financial year and thus avoid collecting levies from firms before the money is actually needed. The FSCS has committed itself in the Memorandum of Understanding with the FSA (the text of which can
The FSCS must not require a participant firm in the accepting depositssub-scheme to pay a share of a compensation costs levy allocated to that sub-scheme to the extent that:(1) the share in question; plus(2) all previous amounts paid by the firm either as its share of levies allocated to that sub-scheme, or under the Deposit Protection Scheme (deducting from those amounts any amount refunded under FEES 6.3.20 R to FEES 6.3.21 R or by the Deposit Protection Scheme);amounts to more
(1) The FSCS may use any money held to the credit of one sub-scheme (the creditorsub-scheme) to pay compensation costsin respect of or allocated to another sub-scheme (the debtor sub-scheme if the FSCS has reasonable grounds to believe that this would be more economical than borrowing funds from a third party or raising a levy.(2) Where the FSCS acts in accordance with (1), it must ensure that:(a) the creditor sub-scheme is reimbursed by the debtor sub-scheme as soon as possible;(b)
(1) The FSCS may use any money held to the credit of any sub-scheme to repay borrowing from a third party incurred to pay establishment costs, if in the opinion of the FSCS this would be to the benefit of participant firms.(2) Where the FSCS acts in accordance with (1), it must ensure that:(a) future establishment costs levies are used first to repay all amounts borrowed from the appropriate sub-schemes;(b) interest is paid to the appropriate sub-schemes at a rate equivalent to
If the FSCS makes recoveries in relation to protected claims where the related compensation costs were allocated to the accepting depositssub-scheme, or in relation to compensation paid out of a special contribution under the Deposit Protection Scheme, and if the FSCS refunds the recoveries under FEES 6.3.21 R, it must ensure that, as far as possible, the recoveries are refunded to the firms that contributed to the relevant compensation costs levy or special contribution (whether
The FSCS may adjust the calculation of a participant firm's share of any levy to take proper account of:(1) any excess, not already taken into account, between previous levies of that type imposed in relation to previous periods and the relevant costs actually incurred in that period; or(2) participant firms that are exempt from the levy under FEES 6.2; or(3) amounts that the FSCS has not been able to recover from participant firms as a result of FEES 6.3.5 RFEES 6.3.6 R, FEES
If a participant firm's share of a levy or an additional administrative fee under FEES 6.7.4 R would be so small that, in the opinion of the FSCS, the costs of collection would be disproportionate to the amount payable, the FSCS may treat the participant firm as if its share of the levy or additional administrative fee amounted to zero.
If a firm ceases to be a participant firm part way through a financial year of the compensation scheme:(1) it will remain liable for any unpaid levies which the FSCS has already made on the firm; and(2) the FSCS may make a levy upon it (which may be before or after the firmhas ceased to be a participant firm, but must be before it ceases to be an authorised person) for the costs which it would have been liable to pay had the FSCS made a levy on all participant firms at the time
The FSCS may impose twotypes of levy: a management expenses levy, and a compensation costs levy. In the first three full years of the operation of the compensation scheme, the FSCS may impose an establishment costs levy as part of a management expenses levy. The FSCS has discretion as to the timing of the levies imposed.
In calculating a compensation costs levy, the FSCS may include anticipated compensation costs for defaults expected to be determined in the 12-month period following the date of the levy. The total of all management expenses levies attributable to a financial year will be restricted tothe amount set out on an annual basis in FEES 6 Annex 1 R.
Within each sub-scheme there are one or more contribution groups These relate to different types of activity carried on by participant firms within each sub-scheme Within a sub-scheme individual participant firms are allocated for funding purposes to one or more contribution groups, depending on their business activities. This meetsa requirement of section 213(5) of the Act that the FSA, in making rules to enable the FSCS to impose levies, must take account of the desirability
Section 223 of the Act (Management expenses) prevents the FSCS from recovering, through a levy, any management expenses attributable to a particular period in excess of the limit set in COMP as applicable to that period. 'Management expenses' are defined in section 223(3) to mean expenses incurred or expected to be incurred by the FSCS in connection with its functions under the Act, except:(1) expenses incurred in paying compensation; and(2) expenses incurred as a result of the
A management expenses levy under COMP may consist of three elements. The first is a base costs levy, for the base costs of running the compensation scheme in a financial year, that is, costs which are not dependent upon the level of activity of the compensation scheme and which therefore are not referable to any specific default. Included in this category are items such as the salary of the members of the board of the FSCS, the costs of the premises which the FSCS occupies, and
The compensation costs levy is made up of the compensation costs which the FSCS has incurred and has not yet recovered from participant firms (less any recoveries it has made using the rights that have been assigned to it), together with those compensation costs it expects to incur (including in respect of defaults yet to be declared) over the 12 months following the date of the levy.
Incoming EEA firms which obtain cover or 'top up' under the provisions of COMP 14 are firms whose Home State scheme provides no or limited compensation cover in the event that they are determined to be in default. Under FEES 6.6, the FSCS is required to consider whether incoming EEA firm's should receive a discount on the amount that they would otherwise pay as their share of the levy, to take account of the availability of their Home State cover. The amount of any discount is
Unless FEES 6.3.22 R applies, the FSCS must calculate a participant firm's share of a base costs levy by:(1) identifying the base costs which the FSCS has incurred, or expects to incur, in the relevant financial year of the compensation scheme, but has not yet levied;(2) calculating the amount of the participant firm's regulatory costs as a proportion of the total regulatory costs relating to all participant firms for the relevant financial year; and(3) applying the proportion
Since a firm that becomes a participant firm in the course of a financial year of the compensation scheme will already be obtaining a discount in relation to the base costs levy and the establishment costs levy through the modified fee provisions of FEES 4.2.6 R, no rule is necessary in COMP for discounts on the base costs levy or the establishment costs levy.
A firm'sgeneral levy is calculated as follows: (1) identify each of the tariff bases set out in Part 2 of FEES 5 Annex 1 which apply to the relevant business of the firm for the relevant year; (2) for each of those tariff bases, calculate the sum payable in relation to the relevant business of the firm for that year;(3) add together the amounts calculated under (2).
The contribution groups and tariff bases for the investment business sub-scheme (see FEES 6.5.7 R (2)). (The contribution groups, legal bases for activity and tariff bases are the same as the correspondingly numbered activity groups and tariff bases set out in 3Part 31 and 3Part 32 of FEES 4 Ann 1R, to the extent that they are covered by the scope of the FSCS3.)
SUB-SCHEME |
CONTRIBUTION GROUP (references to A7 etc are to the activity groups in part 1 of FEES 4 Ann 1R) |
LEGAL BASIS FOR ACTIVITY (this is merely a summary of the basis in part 1 of FEES 4 Ann 1R; references to articles are to articles of the Regulated Activities Order) |
TARIFF BASE (this is merely a summary of the base in part 2 of FEES 4 Ann 1R) |
Designated investment business |
A7 - fund managers |
Managing investments (article 37) |
Funds under management |
Designated investment business |
A9 - managers of an AUT, ACDs and depositaries and operators of personal pension schemes or stakeholder pension schemes1 |
Any of the following: (a) establishing, operating or winding up a collective investment scheme; (b) acting as a trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme; (c) acting as a depositary, or sole director of an open-ended investment company (article 51); (d) establishing, operating or winding up a personal pension scheme or a stakeholder pension scheme.1 |
Gross income |
Designated investment business |
A10 - dealing as principal |
Dealing in investments as principal (article 14). |
Number of traders |
Designated investment business |
A12 - advisory brokers (excluding corporate finance advisers) - holding either client money or assets |
Any of the following: (a) dealing in investments as agent (article 21); (b) arranging (bringing about) deals in investments (article 25(1)); (c) making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments (article 25(2)); with permission to: (i) advise on investments (article 53); (ii) hold client money; and (iii) safeguarding and administering investments (article 40) |
Number of approved persons |
Designated investment business |
A13 - advisory brokers (excluding corporate finance adviser) - not holding either client money or assets |
Any of the following: (a) dealing in investments as agent (article 21); (b) arranging (bringing about) deals in investments (article 25(1)); (c) making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments (article 25(2)); with permission to advise on investments (article 53); but not to (i) hold client money; and (ii) safeguard and administer investments (article 40). |
Number of approved persons |
Designated investment business |
A14 - corporate finance advisory firms |
Permission includes a requirement that the firm must not conduct designated investment business other than corporate finance business |
Number of approved persons |
If a participant firm does not submit a complete statement by the date on which it is due in accordance with FEES 6.5.13 R and any prescribed submission procedures:(1) the firm must pay an administrative fee of £250 (but not if it is already subject to an administrative fee under FEES 4 Annex 2 Part 1 or FEES 5.4.1 R for the same financial year); and(2) the compensation costs levy and any specific costs levy will be calculated using (where relevant) the valuation or valuations
If it appears to the FSA, or FOS Ltd (in relation to any FOS case fee only), that in the exceptional circumstances of a particular case, the payment of any fee or FOS levy would be inequitable, the FSA or FOS Ltd, as relevant, may (unless FEES 2.3.2B R applies)1 reduce or remit all or part of the fee or levy in question which would otherwise be payable.
If it appears to the FSA, or FOS Ltd (in relation to any FOS case fee only), that in the exceptional circumstances of a particular case to which FEES 2.3.1R does not apply, the retention by the FSA, or FOS Ltd, as relevant, of a fee or FOS levy which has been paid would be inequitable, the FSA, or FOS Ltd, may (unless FEES 2.3.2B R applies)1 refund all or part of that fee or levy.
1A poor estimate or forecast by a fee payer, when providing information relevant to an applicable tariff base, is unlikely, of itself, to amount to an exceptional circumstance for the purposes of FEES 2.3.1 R or FEES 2.3.2 R. By contrast, a mistake of fact or law by a fee payer may give rise to such a claim.
1The FSA may not consider a claim under FEES 2.3.1 R and/or FEES 2.3.2 R to reduce, remit or refund any overpaid amounts paid by a fee payer in respect of a particular period, due to a mistake of fact or law by the fee payer, if the claim is made by the fee payer more than 2 years after the beginning of the period to which the overpayment relates.
The key components of the FSA fee mechanism (excluding the FSCSlevy and FOS levy and case fees, which are dealt with in FEES 5 and FEES 6) are:(1) a funding requirement derived from:(a) the FSA's financial management and reporting framework;(b) the FSA's budget; and(c) adjustments for audited variances between budgeted and actual expenditure in the previous accounting year, and reserves movements (in accordance with the FSA's reserves policy);(2) mechanisms for applying penalties
If a person does not pay the total amount of a periodic fee (including fees relating to transaction reports43 to the FSA using the FSA's Transaction Reporting System (see SUP 17))1, FOS levy or case fee, or share of the FSCS levy, before2 the end of the2 date on which it is due, under the relevant provision in FEES 4, 5, or 6, that person must pay an additional amount as follows: 3422(1) if the fee was not paid in full before the end of the due date, an administrative fee of
The FSA, (for periodic fees, FOS and FSCS levies), FOS Ltd (for FOS case fees), expect to issue invoices at least 30 days before the date on which the relevant amounts fall due. FOS case fees are invoiced on a monthly basis. Accordingly it will generally be the case that a person will have at least 30 days from the issue of the invoice before an administrative fee becomes payable.2
Paragraph 17(4) of Schedule 1 and section 99(5) to the Act permit the FSA to recover fees ( and, where relevant, FOS levies), and section 213(6) permits the FSCS to recover shares of the FSCS levy payable, as a debt owed to the FSA and FSCS respectively, and the FSA and FSCS, as relevant, will consider taking action for recovery (including interest) through the civil courts. Also, the FOS Ltd (in respect of case fees) may take steps to recover any money owed to it (including
In addition, the FSA may be entitled to take regulatory action in relation to the non-payment of fees and FOS levies. FSA may also take regulatory action in relation to the non-payment of FOS case fees or share of the FSCS levy, after reference of the matter to FSA by FOS Ltd or FSCSrespectively. What action (if any) that is taken by the FSA will be decided upon in the light of the particular circumstances of the case.
A firm which becomes subject to the Financial Ombudsman Service part way through a financial year must pay a rateable proportion of the general levy and the supplementary levy as indicated in Table FEES 4.2.6 R, as if that table applied to the quarter in which a firm becomes subject to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
The purpose of this chapter is to set out the requirements on firms to pay annual fees (through a general levy and supplementary levy invoiced and collected by the FSA on behalf of FOS Ltd) and case fees (invoiced and collected directly by FOS Ltd) in order to fund the operation of the Financial Ombudsman Service.This chapter also contains a requirement on firms to pay a supplementary levy towards the costs of establishing the Financial Ombudsman Service. It also provides for
151FEES applies to all persons required to pay a fee or levy under a provision of the Handbook. The purpose of this chapter is to set out to whom the rules and guidance in FEES apply. FEES 2 (General Provisions) contains general provisions which may apply to any type of fee payer. FEES 3 (Application, Notification and Vetting Fees) covers one-off fees payable on a particular event for example various application fees (including those in relation to authorisation, variation of
(1) None of the following is to be liable in damages for anything done or omitted in the discharge, or purported discharge, of any functions in connection with the Voluntary Jurisdiction:(a) FOS Ltd;(b) any member of its governing body;(c) any member of its staff;(d) any person acting as an Ombudsman for the purposes of the Financial Ombudsman Service.(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply:(a) where the act or omission is shown to have been in bad faith; or(b) so as to prevent an award
5Licensees will also continue to be liable for any case fees relating to chargeable cases closed by the Financial Ombudsman Service after they cease to be licensees. Licensees will be charged the standard case fee where the complaint was closed by the Financial Ombudsman Service before the end of the year in which they ceased to be licensees. The special case fee will apply to any complaint closed after the end of that year since the licensee will no longer be contributing to
If an incoming EEA firm, which is a BCD credit institution, an IMD insurance intermediary or MiFID investment firm1, is a participant firm, the FSCS must give the firm such discount (if any) as is appropriate on the share of any levy it would otherwise be required to pay, taking account of the nature of the levy and the extent of the compensation coverage provided by the firm's Home State scheme.1
(1) A firm must provide the FSA by the end of February each year (or, if the firm has become subject to the Financial Ombudsman Service part way through the financial year, by the date requested by the FSA) with a statement of the total amount of relevant business (measured in accordance with the appropriate tariff base(s)) which it conducted, as at or in the year to 31 December of the previous year as appropriate, in relation to the tariff base for each of the relevant industry
(1) When arranging to sell, redeem, issue or cancel units, or when units are issued or cancelled under COLL 6.2.7 R (1) (Issues and cancellations through an authorised fund manager), an authorised fund manager is permitted to:(a) require the payment of a dilution levy; or(b) make a dilution adjustment; or(c) neither require a dilution levy nor make a dilution adjustment;in accordance with its statements in the prospectus required by COLL 4.2.5R (18) (Table: contents of the