The FCA may refund all or part of the pensions guidance providers’ levy applicable to a designated guidance provider if it appears to the FCA that in the exceptional circumstances of a particular case the FCA retaining all or part of it would be inequitable.
The FCA may not consider a claim to refund a pensions guidance providers’ levy due to a mistake of fact or law by the designated guidance provider if the claim is made more than two years after the beginning of the fee year to which the levy relates.
(1) The FCA may recover the pensions guidance providers’ levy from a designated guidance provider as a debt owed by it to the FCA under paragraph 23(8) of Schedule 1ZA of the Act.(2) The FCA will consider taking action for recovery (including interest) through the civil courts.
The FCA will not relieve or refund the pensions guidance providers’ levy paid by a designated guidance provider if the Treasury revokes that provider’s designation under section 333E(3) of the Act after the start of that fee year.
