Taxes Management Act 1970

91 Effect on interest of reliefs. U.K.

(1) Where any amount of interest is payable under section 86 F1 ... of this Act in relation to an assessment, and relief from tax charged by the assessment is given to any person by a discharge of any of that tax, such adjustment shall be made of the said amount, and such repayment shall be made of any amounts previously paid under [F2 that section] in relation to the assessment, as are necessary to secure that the total sum, if any, paid or payable under [F2 that section] in relation to the assessment is the same as it would have been if the tax discharged had never been charged.

[F3 (1A) Where interest is payable under section 87A of this Act in respect of an amount of corporation tax for an accounting period, and relief from tax is given by a discharge of any of that corporation tax—

(a) such adjustment shall be made of the amount of interest payable under that section in respect of corporation tax for that accounting period, and

(b) such repayment shall be made of any amounts of interest previously paid under that section in respect of that corporation tax,

as are necessary to secure that the total sum (if any) paid or payable under that section in respect of corporation tax for that accounting period is the same as it would have been if the tax discharged had never been charged.

(1B) Subsection (1A) above has effect subject to section 87A(4)[F4 , (4A), (4B),] [F5 (6) and (7)] of this Act.]

(2) [F6 Subject to subsection (2A) below] Where relief from tax F7 ... paid for any chargeable period is given to any person by repayment, he shall be entitled to require that the amount repaid shall be treated for the purposes of this section, so far as it will go, as if it were a discharge of the tax charged on him (whether alone or together with other persons) by or by virtue of any assessment for or relating to the same chargeable period, so, however, that it shall not be applied to any assessment made after the relief was given and that it shall not be applied to more than one assessment so as to reduce, without extinguishing, the amount of tax charged thereby.

[F8 (2A) In any case where—

(a) relief from corporation tax is given to any person by repayment, and

(b) that tax was paid for an accounting period ending after the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of section [F9 10 of the principal Act],

that person shall be entitled to require that the amount repaid shall be treated for the purposes of this section, so far as it will go, as if it were a discharge of the corporation tax charged on him for that period.]

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, no relief, whether given by way of discharge or repayment, shall be treated for the purposes of this section as—

F10 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) affecting tax charged by any assessment to income tax made under Schedule A or Schedule D if either—

F10 (i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(ii) it arises in connection with income taxable otherwise than under Schedule A or Schedule D, or

(iii) it relates to a source income from which is taxable otherwise than under Schedule A or Schedule D [F11 or

(c) affecting tax charged at a rate other than the basic rate[F12 , [F13 the Scottish basic rate, a Scottish rate below the Scottish basic rate, the Scottish intermediate rate,] [F14 the Welsh basic rate,] the savings nil rate] [F15 or the starting rate for savings] on income from which tax has been deducted (otherwise than under [F16 PAYE regulations]) or is treated as having been deducted, unless it is a relief from the tax so charged].

(4) For the purposes of this section a relief from corporation tax or capital gains tax shall not be treated as affecting tax charged by any assessment unless the assessment is to the same tax .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 91(1) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 18 para. 17 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 18 para. 4(2)(b)(i), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(8)

F2 Words in s. 91(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 18 para. 17 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 18 para. 4(2)(b)(ii)

F3 S. 91(1A)(1B) inserted (23.7.1987 with effect with respect to accounting periods ending after 30.9.1993) by 1987 c. 51, s. 86(5)(7); S.I. 1992/3066, art.2(2)(a).

F4 Words in s. 91(1B) inserted (23.3.1995) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 24 paras. 7, 10; S.I. 1994/3224, art. 2

F5 Words in s. 91(1B) inserted (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 120, Sch. 14 para.5

F6 Words in s. 91(2) added (23.7.1987 with effect with respect to accounting periods ending after 30.9.1993) by 1987 c. 51, s. 86(6)(7); S.I. 1992/3066, art.2(2)(a).

F7 Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.24and amendment repealed by1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F8 S. 91(2A) added (23.7.1987 with effect with respect to accounting periods ending after 30.9.1993) by 1987 c. 51, s. 86(6)(7); S.I. 1992/3066, art.2(2)(a).

F9 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(6).

F10 Words omitted repealed for 1973—74 et seq. by Finance Act 1971 ss. 37, 38, Sch.6 para.88, Sch.14 Part II.

F11 Finance Act 1971 (c. 68), ss.37, 38, Sch.6 para.88, with effect for 1973—74 et seq.

F12 Words in s. 91(3)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 4(17) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), s. 4(16)

F13 Words in s. 91(3)(c) inserted (6.4.2018) by The Scottish Rates of Income Tax (Consequential Amendments) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/459), arts. 1(2), 2(3)

F14 Words in s. 91(3)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Devolved Income Tax Rates (Consequential Amendments) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/201), arts. 1(1), 2

F15 Words in s. 91(3)(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 65 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 1 para. 39

F16 Words in s. 91(3)(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 723(1)(a)(b) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), Sch. 6 para. 136 (with Sch. 7)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 91 applied (N.I.) by The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/128), reg. 34 (as substituted (31.10.2011) by S.R. 2011/137, regs. 1(2), 7)

C2 S. 91 applied by The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/470), reg. 39(3) (as substituted (31.10.2011) by S.I. 2011/784, regs. 1(2), 8)

C3 S. 91 applied (with application in accordance with reg. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Postgraduate Masters Degree Loans) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/606), regs. 1(1), 49(2)

C4 S. 91 excluded by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), s. 306