Finance Act 1948

61 Relief where income attributable to period of years was received in year 1947-48.

(1) Where—

(a) either before or after an assessment to contribution is made, but in any case before such an assessment has become final, application is made to the Special Commissioners for relief under this section, and

(b) the Special Commissioners are satisfied as respects any assets that, by reason of the _provisions of the Income Tax Acts which require that income which is chargeable with income tax by way of deduction shall be deemed to be income of the year in which it is receivable, the income from the assets represents more than the income which would be attributable to a period of one full year if the income were deemed to have accrued from day to day,

the Special Commissioners shall in ascertaining total income and aggregate investment income for the purposes of .this Part of this Act make such reduction, if any, as may be appropriate to secure that there shall be taken as representing the income from the assets an amount equivalent to a full year's income therefrom.

(2) Subsection (1) of section thirty-six of the Finance Act, 1927 (which specifies the period over which income is deemed to have accrued from day to day) shall apply for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the last foregoing subsection as it applies for the purposes of section thirty-four of the said Act of 1927 (which makes in relation to surtax the like provision as subsection (1) of this section).