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The British National Party has been slapped with a £2,400 fine for filing their annual accounts two months late, it emerged today.

The fee amounts to around 10% of their last declared bank balance of just £25,000.

The beleaguered far-right party copped the fine from the Electoral Commission, just a week after being struck off the UK's official list of political parties.

They were removed from the list because they failed to submit their registration forms on time.

The party blamed the delay on their struggling to find an auditor to check over the books before they submitted them to the regulator.

And they said their treasurer had suffered health problems in the run up to the July 7 deadline.

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The Electoral Commission granted the party a one month extension, and launched an investigation when this, too, was missed.

The BNP finally delivered their 2014 accounts more than three months after the deadline, on October 16, 2015.

The Commission said the party's excuses weren't good enough, and the issues "could have been dealt with in a way that did not delay the delivery of the accounts."

Read more:BNP kicked off official political party list after they forget to pay £25 registration bill

The fine, an eye-watering figure for the near-broke party, was increased because of a string of late filings and fines.

In 2012, the party was fined £750 for delivering their spending report late, and for election spending irregularities.

The fine will double if it is not paid within 56 days.

We contacted the BNP for comment, but they had not responded at the time of publication.

The Electoral Commission also slapped a £2,000 on the official anti-Scottish independence campaign group Better Together, today.

The group, fronted by Labour's Alistair Darling during the referendum campaign, failed to submit receipts for £56,000 worth of spending.