Finance Act 1996

135 Time limits for claims etc

(1) Schedule 21 to this Act (which in connection with self-assessment modifies enactments which impose time limits on the making of claims, elections, adjustments and assessments and the giving of notices, and enactments which provide for the giving of notice to the inspector) shall have effect.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) to (5) below, the amendments made by that Schedule shall have effect—

(a) for the purposes of income tax and capital gains tax, as respects the year 1996-97 and subsequent years of assessment; and

(b) for the purposes of corporation tax, as respects accounting periods ending on or after the day appointed under section 199 of the [1994 c. 9.] Finance Act 1994 for the purposes of Chapter III of Part IV of that Act (self-assessment management provisions).

(3) The amendments made to the [1990 c. 1.] Capital Allowances Act 1990 and the Finance Act 1994 by that Schedule, in their application to trades, professions or vocations set up and commenced before 6th April 1994, shall (so far as relating to income tax) have effect as respects the year 1997-98 and subsequent years of assessment.

(4) The Capital Allowances Act 1990, as it has effect for the year 1996-97 in relation to trades, professions or vocations set up and commenced before 6th April 1994, shall (so far as relating to income tax) have effect as respects that year with the following modifications, that is to say, as if—

(a) in sections 25(3)(c), 30(1), 31(3) and 33(1) and (4), for “two years after the end of” there were substituted “the first anniversary of the 31st January next following”;

(b) in section 37(2)(c), for “more than two years after the end of the chargeable period or its basis period” there were substituted “later than the first anniversary of the 31st January next following the year of assessment in which ends the basis period”;

(c) in section 53(2), for “before the expiry of the period of two years beginning at the end of” there were substituted “on or before the first anniversary of the 31st January next following”;

(d) in section 68(5), for “two years after the end of that period” there were substituted “the first anniversary of the 31st January next following the year of assessment in which the relevant period ends”;

(e) in section 68(9A)(b), for “two years after the end of” there were substituted “the first anniversary of the 31st January next following the year of assessment in which ends”;

(f) in section 129(2), for “not more than two years after the end of” there were substituted “on or before the first anniversary of the 31st January next following”;

(g) in section 141(3), for “the inspector not later than two years after the end of” there were substituted “an officer of the Board on or before the first anniversary of the 31st January next following”.

(5) Section 118 of the [1994 c. 9.] Finance Act 1994, as it has effect for the year 1996-97 in relation to trades, professions or vocations set up and commenced before 6th April 1994, shall (so far as relating to income tax) have effect as respects that year as if, in subsection (3), for “two years after the end of” there were substituted “the first anniversary of the 31st January next following”.