COM23091 - Assessing: CTSA assessments: make or amend tax or penalty charges on same day (Action Guide)
To prevent COTAX issuing a repayment and a payment application when you make or amend an assessment and select auto issue of a penalty determination or use function PPEN (Prepare Penalty Determination) to issue a penalty for the same period on the same day, consider steps 1 - 4 below.
1.  Use function MRSC (Maintain Repay/Realloc Signals (Company)) to set the ‘inhibit reallocations and repayments� signal against all Accounting Periods (APs).
2. Â Use function RAMA to record or amend the assessment.
3. Â At the end you are presented with the following choice of actions regarding any penalties:
- allowing the automatic issue of penalties
- proceeding to function PPEN to issue or revise the penalty determination
- setting the ‘no penalty required� indicator
- you should normally select proceeding to function PPEN to issue or revise the penalty determination
4.  Use function MRSC again to unset the ‘inhibit reallocations and repayments� signal.