Finance Act 1973

[F1 Payments on account of tax U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 16A inserted by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1, 2), s. 58, Sch. 5

3 (1) In the case of a syndicate profit for a year of assessment, the agent shall, on or before the 1st January next following the end of the closing year for that year— U.K.

(a) pay to the collector, on account of the liabilities to tax of the members of the syndicate, the amount stated in his return for that year under paragraph 2(1)(c) above; and

(b) deliver to the inspector a return apportioning, between those members, the amount so paid.

(2) Where an amount is paid to the collector under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above for a year of assessment, the following provisions shall apply as between each member of the syndicate and the agent—

(a) where the member’s proportion of the amount so paid exceeds the amount deducted by the agent in accounting to the member for his share of the syndicate profit for that year, the amount of the excess shall be paid by the member to the agent; and

(b) where the amount, so deducted exceeds that proportion, the amount of the excess shall be paid by the agent to the member.

(3) Where an amount is paid to the collector under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above for a year of assessment, the following provisions shall apply as respects the liability to tax for that year of each member of the syndicate—

(a) where the amount in which the member is charged to tax exceeds his proportion of the amount so paid, the amount of the excess shall be the amount of tax due and payable; and

(b) where that proportion exceeds the amount in which the member is so charged, the amount of the excess shall be treated as tax overpaid.

(4) Any amount which is payable under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above shall carry interest at the prescribed rate from the date when it becomes payable until payment, whether or not that date is a non-business day within the meaning of the M1 Bills of Exchange Act 1882; and—

(a) section 89 of the M2 Taxes Management Act 1970 (the prescribed rate of interest); and

(b) section 90 of that Act (disallowance of relief for interest on tax),

shall apply for the purposes of this sub-paragraph as they apply for the purposes of any provision of Part IX of that Act.]

Marginal Citations

M1 1882 c. 61.

M2 1970 c. 9