Taxes Management Act 1970

[F1 8 Personal return. U.K.

[F2 (1) For the purpose of establishing the amounts in which a person is chargeable to income tax and capital gains tax for a year of assessment, [F3 and the amount payable by him by way of income tax for that year,] he may be required by a notice given to him by an officer of the Board—

(a) to make and deliver to the officer, on or before the day mentioned in subsection (1A) below, a return containing such information as may reasonably be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts, statements and documents, relating to information contained in the return, as may reasonably be so required.

(1A) The day referred to in subsection (1) above is—

(a) the 31st January next following the year of assessment, or

(b) where the notice under this section is given after the 31st October next following the year, the last day of the period of three months beginning with the day on which the notice is given

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[F5 (1AA) For the purposes of subsection (1) above—

(a) the amounts in which a person is chargeable to income tax and capital gains tax are net amounts, that is to say, amounts which take into account any relief or allowance a claim for which is included in the return; and

(b) the amount payable by a person by way of income tax is the difference between the amount in which he is chargeable to income tax and the aggregate amount of any income tax deducted at source and any tax credits to which section 231 of the principal Act applies.]

(1B) In the case of a person who carries on a trade, profession, or business in partnership with one or more other persons, a return under this section shall include each amount which, in any relevant statement, is stated to be equal to his share of any income, [F6 loss, tax, credit] or charge for the period in respect of which the statement is made.

(1C) In subsection (1B) above “relevant statement” means a statement which, as respects the partnership, falls to be made under section 12AB of this Act for a period which includes, or includes any part of, the year of assessment or its basis period.]

(2) Every return under this section shall include a declaration by the person making the return to the effect than the return is to the best of his knowledge correct and complete.

(3) A notice under this section may require different information, accounts and statements for different periods or in relation to different descriptions of source of income.

(4) Notices under this section may require different information, accounts and statements in relation to different descriptions of person.

[F7 (5) In this section and sections 8A, 9 and 12AA of this Act, any reference to income tax deducted at source is a reference to income tax deducted or treated as deducted from any income or treated as paid on any income.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss 8, 8A, 9 substituted for ss, 8, 9 (with effect where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be, given after 5.4.1990) by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), s. 90(1)(5)

F2 S. 8(1)-(1C) substituted for s. 8(1) (with effect in accordance with s. 199(2)(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 178(1); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F3 Words in s. 8(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(8) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 121(1)

F4 Words in s. 8(1A) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 121(8) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 121(2), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(6)

F5 S. 8(1AA) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(8) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 121(3)

F6 Words in s. 8(1B) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 103(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 104(2)

F7 S. 8(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 103(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 104(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 8 modified (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 3(6)(b), 289 (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))

C2 S. 8 modified by Finance Act 1974 (c. 30), s. 24 (repealed (1.4.2010) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 10 Pt. 12 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22))

C3 S. 8 extended (with effect in accordance with s. 56(9) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 56(7)(a)

C4 S. 8 modified (E.W.) (1.4.2000) by Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/944), regs. 1(1), 17(1)

C5 S. 8 modified (N.I.) (1.4.2000) by The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000/121), regs. 1, 17(1)

C6 S. 8 modified (24.4.2000) by The Income Tax (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/945), regs. 2(1), 3-8 (with reg. 2(2))