Finance Act 2009

Insurance premium tax

4 (1) Paragraph 26 (assessments: time limits) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), for the words from “three years after”, in the first place, to the end substitute “4 years after the relevant event”.

(3) After that sub-paragraph insert—

“(1A) In this paragraph “the relevant event”, in relation to an assessment, means—

(a) the end of the accounting period concerned, or

(b) in the case of an assessment under paragraph 25 of an amount due by way of a penalty other than a penalty referred to in paragraph 25(2), the event giving rise to the penalty.”

(4) In sub-paragraph (3), for “sub-paragraph (1)” substitute “sub-paragraph (1A)”.

(5) For sub-paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) An assessment of an amount due from a person in a case involving a loss of tax—

(a) brought about deliberately by the person (or by another person acting on that person’s behalf), or

(b) attributable to a failure by the person to comply with an obligation under section 53(1) or (2) or 53AA(1) or (3),

may be made at any time not more than 20 years after the relevant event.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4)(a) the reference to a loss brought about deliberately by the person includes a loss brought about as a result of a deliberate inaccuracy in a document given to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by or on behalf of that person.”