Taxes Management Act 1970

PART I U.K. ADMINISTRATION F1

Textual Amendments

F1 SeeFinance Act 1989 s. 92—powers to make regulations to extend time limits in respect of underwriters.

1 Taxes under care and management of the Board. [1952 s.5(1); 1965 s.49(7), Sch.X 1(1).] [1964(M) s.3(1).] [1964(M) s.3(3); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Income tax, corporation tax . . . F2 and capital gains tax shall be under the care and management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (in this Act referred to as “the Board”), and the definition of “inland revenue” in section 39 of the Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 shall have effect accordingly F3 .

(2) The Board shall appoint inspectors and collectors of taxes who shall act under the direction of the Board F4 .

[(2A) The Board may appoint a person to be an inspector or collector for general purposes or for such specific purposes as the Board think fit.

(2B) Where in accordance with the Board’s administrative practices a person is authorised to act as an inspector or collector for specific purposes, he shall be deemed to have been appointed to be an inspector or collector for those purposes. F5 ]

(3) Any legal proceedings or administrative act relating to any tax begun by one inspector or collector may be continued by another inspector or, as the case may be, another collector; and any inspector or collector may act for any division or other area F6 .

Textual Amendments

F2 Words relating to development land tax added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.1. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)and Sch.27 Part X.

F3 For the application of this Act to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty seeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1and Sch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts.

F4 See also as to appointments etc. of officers,Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 (c. 21, SIF 63:1), s.4 (in Part II Vol.5).

F5 Finance Act 1990 s. 104(1), (3)—deemed always to have had effect.

F6 For the application of this subsection to the special tax on banking deposits see Finance Act 1981 s.134and Sch.17 para.18. (in 1988edition).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 1 extended (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 15(3), 173(4), Sch. 2 para. 6(2) (with ss. 108(5), 116(3), 165)

2 General Commissioners, [1964(M) s.1(1)—(8).] U.K.

(1) For the purpose of exercising such powers relating to appeals and other matters as are conferred on them by the Taxes Acts there shall be “Commissioners for the general purposes of the income tax” (in the Taxes Acts referred to as “General Commissioners”) who shall act for the same separate areas in Great Britain as heretofore[or for the separate areas in Northern Ireland defined by an order made by the Lord Chancellor F7 ](in the Taxes Acts referred to as “divisions”).

(2) General Commissioners for divisions in England and Wales[or Northern Ireland F7 ]shall be appointed by, and shall hold office during the pleasure of, the Lord Chancellor.

(3) General Commissioners for divisions in Scotland shall be appointed by, and shall hold office during the pleasure of,[the Secretary of State F8 ], . . . F9 .

(4) In Scotland a sheriff shall be ex officio a General Commissioner for any division wholly or partly within his sheriffdom and a salaried sheriff-substitute shall be ex officio a General Commissioner for any division wholly or partly within his district.

(5) General Commissioners shall be entitled to receive out of money provided by Parliament payments by way of travelling allowance or subsistence allowance of such amounts and in such circumstances as may be determined by [the Minister for the Civil Service F10 F11 ].

(6) The Lord Chancellor or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State may by order create a new division or abolish an existing division or alter in any other respect the divisions or their boundaries; and any such order may contain such consequential and transitional provisions as the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State, as the case may be, thinks fit and may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order under this subsection.

Subject to the preceding provisions of this subsection, the areas of the divisions shall be the same as immediately before the passing of this Act F12 F13 .

(7) A General Commissioner shall not continue in office after he attains the age of seventy-five years.

(8) The validity of any proceedings of General Commissioners shall not be affected by a defect in the appointment of any of them, or by a failure to observe the requirements of the last preceding subsection.

Textual Amendments

F7 Added by Finance Act 1988 s. 134(1)(4)from 3April 1989—Commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).

F8 Finance Act 1975 s.57(1)from 15May 1975.

F9 Words omitted repealed byFinance Act 1975 s.59(5)and Sch.13 Part II.

F10 The Minister for the Civil Service Order 1971 (S.I. 1971 No.2099) arts.1(4)and 4(2)with effect from7February1972.See alsoart.6—validity of previous decisions etc. not affected.

F11 SeeS.I. 1981 No.1670 art.2(4) (not reproduced)—function transferred from the Minister for the Civil Service to Treasury with effect from7December1981.

F12 See Finance Act 1973 s. 41—boundaries of divisions specified by order made or having effect as if made under s. 2(6)not to be affected by changes in local government areas in England and Wales on 1April 1974or in Scotland on 16May 1975.

F13 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 s. 148and Sch. 14 Part IXon or after 3April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (in Part III Vol.5).

3 Clerk to General Commissioners. [1964(M) s.2(1)—(5); S.I. 1968/1656.] U.K.

(1) The General Commissioners for every division shall appoint a clerk and, if they think it necessary, an assistant clerk, and persons appointed under this subsection shall hold office during the pleasure of the Commissioners and act under their direction.

(2) A clerk shall be paid such remuneration in respect of his services as the Board may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service F14 determine.

(3) The Board may, in such cases as they may in their discretion determine, pay to or in respect of any full-time clerk such pension[allowance F15 ] or gratuity, or make such provision for the payment of pension[allowance F15 ] or gratuity to or in respect of any full-time clerk, as they may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service F14 determine.

In this subsection “full-time clerk” means a clerk as regards whom the Board are satisfied that he is required to devote substantially the whole of his time to the duties of his office F16 .

(4) Without prejudice to the power of any General Commissioners to dismiss their clerk or assistant clerk, the Lord Chancellor or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State may, after consulting the General Commissioners for any division, dismiss their clerk or assistant clerk.

(5) A clerk or assistant clerk shall not continue in office after he has attained the age of seventy years unless the General Commissioners for whom he acts think it desirable in the public interest and extend his term of office; and the term shall not be extended beyond the age of seventy-five years.

Textual Amendments

F14 SeeS.I. 1981 No.1670 art.2(4) (not reproduced)—function transferred from the Minister for the Civil Service to Treasury with effect from7December1981.

F15 Superannuation Act 1972 (c.11) s.26andSch.6 para.77.

F16 See alsoFinance Act 1972 s.130—compensation for loss of office etc. by clerks on reorganisation of divisions.

[4 Special Commissioners. U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor shall, after consultation with the Lord Advocate, appoint such persons as he thinks fit as “Commissioners for the special purposes of the Income Tax Acts” (in the Taxes Acts referred to as “Special Commissioners”) and shall designate one of the Special Commissioners as the Presiding Special Commissioner F17 .

(2) No person shall be appointed under subsection (1) above unless—

(a) he has a 10 year general qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;

(b) he is an advocate or solicitor in Scotland of at least 10 years’ standing; or

(c) he is a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland of at least 10 years’ standing F18 ]

(3) If the Presiding Special Commissioner is temporarily absent or unable to act or there is a vacancy in his office, the Lord Chancellor may designate another Special Commissioner to act as deputy Presiding Special Commissioner and the Commissioner so designated shall, when so acting, have all the functions of the Presiding Special Commissioner.

(4) The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, and after consultation with the Lord Advocate, remove a Special Commissioner from office on the grounds of incapacity or misbehaviour.

(5) By virtue of their appointment the Special Commissioners shall have authority to execute such powers, and to perform such duties, as are assigned to them by any enactment.

(6) Such sums shall be allowed to Special Commissioners in respect of salary and incidental expenses and such pensions (including allowances and gratuities) shall be paid to, or in respect of, them as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine.

(7) Officers and staff may be appointed under section 27 of the M1 Courts Act 1971 (court staff) for carrying out the administrative work of the Special Commissioners.

Textual Amendments

F17 See—Oil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—for modification regarding petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18for the application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits (1988edition).

F18 Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) s. 71(2)and Sch. 10 para. 30.

Marginal Citations

M1 1971 c.23.

4A Deputy Special Commissioners. U.K.

(1) If it appears to the Lord Chancellor expedient to do so in order to facilitate the performance of any functions of the Special Commissioners, he may, after consultation with the Lord Advocate, appoint a person to be a deputy Special Commissioner during such period or on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit.

(2) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as a deputy Special Commissioner unless he is qualified for appointment as a Special Commissioner.

(3) A deputy Special Commissioner while acting under this section shall have all the jurisdiction and functions of a Special Commissioner and any reference to a Special Commissioner in the following provisions of this Act or in any other enactment or any instrument made under any enactment (whenever passed or made) shall include a reference to a deputy Special Commissioner.

(4) The duty under section 6(1) below shall only apply to a deputy Special Commissioner on his first appointment to that office.

(5) Notwithstanding the expiry of any period for which a person is appointed under this section, he may continue to act under the appointment for the purpose of continuing to deal with any matter with which he was concerned during that period.

(6) The Lord Chancellor may pay to any person appointed under this section such remuneration and allowances as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine F19 .]

Textual Amendments

F19 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para. 1from 1January 1985 (see S.I. 1984 No. 1836 (c. 45)) (not reproduced)but not to affect the appointment of any person, who, immediately before the passing of Finance Act 1984,held office as a Special Commissioner. Previously

“4.—(1) Such persons as the Treasury may by warrant from time to time appoint shall be “Commissioners for the special purposes of the Income Tax Acts” (in the Taxes Acts(a) referred to as “Special Commissioners”), and shall, by virtue of their appointment, and without other qualification, have authority to execute such powers, and to perform such duties, as are assigned to them by the Taxes Acts(a).(2) The Treasury shall cause an account of all appointments of Special Commissioners with salaries to be laid before Parliament within twenty days of their appointment, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, within twenty days after the next meeting of Parliament.(3) Special Commissioners shall be allowed such sums in respect of salary and incidental expenses as the Minister for the Civil Service directs.”

(a)

See—Oil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1),theOil Taxation Acts,for modification regarding petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18for the application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits (in 1988edition).

5 General and Special Commissioners. 1969 Sch.XX 17(1).][1952 s.17.] U.K.

(1) No General Commissioner or Special Commissioner shall act as such in relation to any matter in which he has a personal interest, or is interested on behalf of another person, except with the express consent of the parties to the proceedings.

(2)F20

Textual Amendments

F20 Repealed, in England and Wales, from 30March 1974by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71) s. 64(2)and Sch. 6 Part Iand S.I. 1973 No. 1472 r. 2and Sch. 2 (not reproduced),and in Scotland, from 22 December 1980,by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55) s. 28(2)and Sch. 3and S.I. 1980 No. 1726 (C. 74)(S. 148)(not reproduced).

6 Declarations on taking office. [1964(M) s.4.] U.K.

(1) Every person who is appointed to be—

(a) a General Commissioner or a Special Commissioner, or

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F21

(c) a member of the tribunal established under section [706 F22 ] of the principal Act (cancellation of tax advantages),

shall make a declaration in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act before another person holding the same office, or before a General Commissioner.

(2) Every person who is appointed to be a clerk or assistant clerk to the General Commissioners for any division, or who assists any such clerk, shall make a declaration in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act.

A clerk or assistant clerk shall make the declaration before a General Commissioner for the division, and a person who assists any such clerk shall make the declaration before such a General Commissioner or the clerk.

(3) Every person who is appointed to be a member of the Board shall make a declaration in the form set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act before another member of the Board.

(4) Every person who is appointed an inspector or collector, or who is appointed by the Board to serve in any other capacity, shall make a declaration in the form set out in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act before such person as the Board may direct.

(5) A declaration under this section shall be made as soon as may be after first appointment to the office in question F23 F24 .

Textual Amendments

F21 S. 6(1)(b)repealed byFinance Act 1982 s.157andSch.22 Part X.

F22 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para 32.

F23 As to savings, etc., in respect of disclosure in certain cases, see—Finance Act 1969 s.58(3) (in Part II Vol.5)—disclosure of information for statistical purposes.Finance Act 1972 s.127 (inPart II Vol.5)—disclosure of information between revenue departments.Finance Act 1978 s.77 (inPart II Vol.5)—disclosure to tax authorities in other member states ofEEC.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s.816—relief for double taxation.Charities Act 1960 s.9 (inPart II Vol.5)—disclosure to and by Charity Commissioners of information about charities.Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60) S. 56K (in Part II Vol. 5)—disclosure in connection with the registration of occupational and personal pension schemes.Child Benefit Act 1975 s.10 (inPart II Vol.5)—disclosure of information to Secretary of State.

F24 See Finance Act 1989 s. 182 (in Part II Vol. 5)—disclosure of information.

PART II U.K. RETURNS OF INCOME AND GAINS

Income tax U.K.

7 [Notice of liability to income tax. U.K.

(1) Every person who is chargeable to income tax for any year of assessment and has neither—

(a) delivered a return of his profits or gains or his total income for that year, nor

(b) received a notice under section 8 of this Act requiring such a return,

shall, subject to subsections (2) to (5) below, within twelve months from the end of that year, give notice to the inspector that he is so chargeable, specifying each separate source of income.

(2) A source of income is excluded for the purposes of subsection (1) above in relation to any year of assessment if—

(a) all payments of, or on account of, income from it during that year, and

(b) all income from it for that year which does not consist of payments,

have or has been taken into account in the making of deductions or repayments of tax under section 203 of the principal Act.

(3) A source of income is excluded for the purposes of subsection (1) above in relation to any person and any year of assessment if all income from it for that year has been assessed or has been taken into account—

(a) in determining that person’s liability to tax, or

(b) in the making of deductions or repayments of tax under section 203 of the principal Act.

(4) A source of income is excluded for the purposes of subsection (1) above in relation to any person and any year of assessment if all income from it for that year is—

(a) income from which income tax has been deducted;

(b) income from or on which income tax is treated as having been deducted or paid (not being income consisting of a payment to which section 559 of the principal Act applies); or

(c) income chargeable under Schedule F.

and that person is not for that year liable to tax at a rate other than basic rate.

(5) A person shall not be required to give notice under subsection (1) above in respect of a year of assessment if and to the extent that his total income for that year consists of income from sources—

(a) which are excluded under subsections (2) to (4) above, or

(b) in respect of income from which he could not become liable to tax under assessments made more than twelve months after the end of that year.

(6) If any person, for any year of assessment, fails to comply with subsection (1) above as respects any source of income, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the amount of the tax for which he is liable, in respect of income from that source for that year, under assessments made more than twelve months after the end of that year.

(7) In the case of a partner, the reference in subsection (6) above to the tax for which he is liable in respect of income from any source does not include a reference to tax assessable in the name of the partnership on so much of the income from that source as falls to be included in the total income of any other person F25 .]

Textual Amendments

F25 Finance Act 1988 s. 120with respect to notices required to be given for the year 1988-89and subsequent years. Previously

“7.—(1) Every person who is chargeable to income tax for any year of assessment and who has not delivered a return of his profits or gains or his total income for that year in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Acts shall, not later than one year after the end of that year of assessment, give notice that he is so chargeable.(2) A notice under this section shall be given to the inspector ......(a)(3) If any person fails to give a notice which he is required to give under this section he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £100.”

(a)

Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37and 38andSch.14 Part II.

8 [Personal return. U.K.

(1) For the purposes of assessing a person to income tax, he may be required by a notice given to him by an inspector—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements, relating to information contained in the return, as may be required in pursuance of the notice.

(2) Every return under this section shall include a declaration by the person making the return to the effect than the return is to the best of his knowledge correct and complete.

(3) A notice under this section may require different information, accounts and statements for different periods or in relation to different descriptions of source of income.

(4) Notices under this section may require different information, accounts and statements in relation to different descriptions of person F26 .

Textual Amendments

F26 See—Finance Act 1974 s. 24—notice may require particulars of emoluments of certain employments etc. under non-residents duties performed for benefit of a person resident or trading etc., in the United Kingdom.Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) S. 5(5)and Sch. 1—return of small deposits and gains.Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 140(3)—inclusion in returns of income of any claim for capital allowances.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 8 modified (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 3(6)(b), 289 (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))

8A Trustee’s return. U.K.

(1) For the purpose of assessing a trustee of a settlement, and the settlors and beneficiaries, to income tax an inspector may by a notice given to the trustee require the trustee—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements, relating to information contained in the return, as may be required in pursuance of the notice;

and a notice may be given to any one trustee or separate notices may be given to each trustee or to such trustees as the inspector thinks fit.

(2) Every return under this section shall include a declaration by the person making the return to the effect that the return is to the best of his knowledge correct and complete.

(3) A notice under this section may require different information, accounts and statements for different periods or in relation to different descriptions of source of income.

(4) Notices under this section may require different information, accounts and statements in relation to different descriptions of settlement.

9 Partnership return. U.K.

(1) Where a trade or profession is carried on by two or more persons jointly, for the purposes of making assessment to income tax in the partnership name an inspector may act under subsection (2) or (3) below (or both).

(2) An inspector may by a notice given to the partners require such person as is identified in accordance with rules given with the notice—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements as may be required in pursuance of the notice.

(3) An inspector may by a notice given to any partner require the partner—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements as may be required in pursuance of the notice;

and a notice may be given to any one partner or separate notices may be given to each partner or to such partners as the inspector thinks fit.

(4) Every return under this section shall include—

(a) a declaration of the names and residences of the partners;

(b) a declaration by the person making the return to the effect that the return is to the best of his knowledge correct and complete.

(5) A notice under this section may require different information, accounts and statements for different periods or in relation to different descriptions of sources of income.

(6) Notices under this section may require different information, accounts and statements in relation to different descriptions of partnership F27 .]

Textual Amendments

F27 Ss 8, 8A, 9 substituted for ss, 8, 9 (with effect where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be, given after 5.4.1990) by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), s. 90(1)(5)

Corporation tax U.K.

10 [Notice of liability to corporation tax. U.K.

(1) Every company which is chargeable to corporation tax for any accounting period and has neither—

(a) made a return of its profits for that period, nor

(b) received a notice under section 11 of this Act requiring such a return,

shall, within twelve months from the end of that period, give notice to the inspector that it is so chargeable.

(2) If any company, for any accounting period ending on or before the appointed day, fails to comply with subsection (1) above, it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the amount of the corporation tax for which it is liable, in respect of its profits for that period, under assessments made more than twelve months after the end of that period.

(3) If any company, for any accounting period ending after the appointed day, fails to comply with subsection (1) above, it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the amount by which so much of the corporation tax chargeable on its profits for that period as remains unpaid for twelve months after the end of that period exceeds any income tax borne by deduction from payments included in those profits.

(4) In determining—

(a) for the purposes of subsection (2) above, for how much corporation tax a company is liable, in respect of its profits for an accounting period, under assessments made more than twelve months after the end of that period; or

(b) for the purposes of subsection (3) above, how much of the corporation tax chargeable on the profits of a company for an accounting period remained unpaid at the time of any failure to comply with subsection (1) above,

no account shall be taken of the discharge of any liablility for that tax which, pursuant to a claim under subsection (3) of section 239 of the principal Act, is attributable to an amount of surplus advance corporation tax, as defined in that subsection.

(5) In this section “the appointed day” means the day appointed for the purposes of section 8(3) of the principal Act F28 .]

Textual Amendments

F28 Finance Act 1980 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 121in respect of notices given for accounting periods ending after 31March 1989.Previously

“10.—(1) Every company which is chargeable to corporation tax for any accounting period and which has not made a return of its profits for that accounting period give notice to the inspector that it is so chargeable.(2) If a company fails to give a notice which it is required to give under this section the company shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £100”.

11 Return of profits. [1966 Sch.VI 2.] U.K.

(1) A company may be required by a notice served on the company by an inspector or other officer of the Board to deliver to the officer within the time limited by the notice a return of the profits of the company computed in accordance with the Corporation Tax Acts—

(a) specifying the income taken into account in computing those profits, with the amount from each source,

(b) giving particulars of all disposals giving rise to chargeable gains or allowable losses under the provisions of [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F29 ] and the Corporation Tax Acts and particulars of those chargeable gains or allowable losses, and

(c) giving particulars of all charges on income to be deducted against those profits for the purpose of assessment to corporation tax F30 F31 .

(2) A notice under this section may require a return of profits arising in any period during which the company was within the charge to corporation tax F31 .

(3) Every return under this section shall include a declaration [by the person making the return F32 ] to the effect that the return is [to the best of his knowledge F32 ] correct and complete F31 .

(4) A return under this section which includes profits which are payments on which the company has borne income tax by deduction shall specify the amount of income tax so borne.

(5) A notice under this section may require the inclusion in the return of particulars of management expenses, capital allowances and balancing charges which have been taken into account in arriving at the profits included in the return.

[(6) A notice under this section may require the inclusion in the return of particulars of advance corporation tax paid by the company (and not repaid) and of any surplus advance corporation tax carried forward under section [239(4) of the principal Act F33 ] F34 .] F31 F35

Textual Amendments

F29 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14) s. 157(2)andSch.7 para.8

F30 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 451(2)(a)—the Treasury may modify s. 11 in its application to Lloyd's underwriting agency companies by regulations made by statutory instrument for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

F31 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 ss. 82(2)(3)(4), 95(2)(3), Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 10(1)and Finance Act 1990 s. 91for modifications in the event of a notice being served after a day to be appointed.

F32 Finance Act 1990 s. 91(4), (8)with respect to any notice served on or after 26July 1990.

F33 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 10.Previously

“85(4) of the Finance Act 1972”.

F34 Finance Act 1972 s.111andSch.24 para.5with effect from6April1973.

F35 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1)—s. 10(2)—time for payment of tax under Pay and File.Finance Act 1990—ss. 100and 102and Schs. 15and 16—claims for group relief and claims for capital allowances after a day to be appointed (see Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 10).

11A [Notice of liability to capital gains tax. U.K.

(1) Every person who is chargeable to capital gains tax for any year of assessment and has neither—

(a) delivered a return of his chargeable gains for that year, nor

(b) received a notice under section 8 of this Act requiring such a return,

shall, within twelve months from the end of that year, give notice to the inspector that he is so chargeable; but a person all of whose chargeable gains for a year of assessment have been assessed shall not be required to give notice under this subsection in respect of that year.

(2) If any person, for any year of assessment, fails to comply with subsection (1) above, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the amount of the tax for which he is liable, in respect of his chargeable gains for that year, under assessments made more than twelve months after the end of that year.

(3) In this section references to a person’s chargeable gains for a year of assessment include, if section 45(1)of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979applies in relation to him and his wife in that year, her chargeable gains for that yearF36 .] F37

Textual Amendments

F36 S. 11A inserted (with effect with respect to notices required to be given for the year 1988-89 and subsequent years) by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), s. 122(1)(3)

F37 S. 11A(3) repealed (for 1990-91 and subsequent years) by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), s. 148, Sch. 14 Pt. VIII

12 Information about chargeable gains. [1965 Sch.X 1(1).] [1965 Sch.X 6(1); 1966 Sch.VI 2(6).] U.K.

[(1) [Sections 8 and 8A F38 ] of this Act shall apply in relation to capital gains tax as [they apply F38 ] in relation to income tax, and subject to any necessary modifications F39 .] F40

(2) A notice under section 8 [or section 8A F41 ] or section 11 of this Act may require particulars of any assets acquired by the person on whom the notice was served (or if the notice relates to income or chargeable gains of some other person, of any assets acquired by that other person) in the period specified in the notice (being a period beginning not earlier than 6th April 1965) but excluding—

[(a) any assets exempted by the following provisions of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979, namely—

(i) section 19(4) (rights to winnings from pool betting, lotteries or games with prizes),

(ii) section 71 (government non-marketable securities),

(iii) section 130, 131 or 133 (passenger vehicles, decorations for valour or gallant conduct and foreign currency for personal expenditure) F42 ], or

(b) unless the amount or value of the consideration for its acquisition exceeded [£6,000 F43 ], any asset which is tangible movable property and is not within the exceptions in [section 128(6) F42 ] of the said Act (terminal markets and currency), or

(c) any assets acquired as trading stock.

M2 (3) The particulars required under this section may include particulars of the person from whom the asset was acquired, and of the consideration for the acquisition.

M3 (4) A return ofincome of a partnership F44 under section 9of this Act shall include—

(a) with respect to any disposal of partnership property during a period to which any part of the return relates, the like particulars as if the partnership were liable to tax on any chargeable gain accruing on the disposal, and

(b) with respect to any acquisition of partnership property, the particulars required under subsection (2) above.

M4 (5) In this section “trading stock” has the meaning given by section [100(2) F45 ] of the principal Act. F46

Textual Amendments

F38 Finance Act 1990 s. 90(2)(a), (5)where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be given after 5April 1990.Previously

“Section 8”

and

“it applies”.

F39 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 122with respect to notices required to be given for the year 1988-89and subsequent years. Previously

“(1) Sections 7 and 8 of this Act shall apply in relation to capital gains tax as they apply in relation to income tax.....(a) and subject to any necessary modifications.”

in s. 12(1).

(a)

Words omitted repealed for 1973-74et seq. by Finance Act 1971 ss.37and 38and Sch. 14 Part II.

F40 See—Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.5(5)andSch.1 para.3—return of small disposals and gains.Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.45(3)—returns of chargeable gains accruing to a married woman.

F41 Finance Act 1990 s. 90(2)(b), (5)where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be given after 5April 1990.

F42 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14 SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.1(2), 9for1979—80et seq.

F43 Finance Act 1989 s. 123in relation to assets acquired on or after 6April 1989.Previously

“£3000”

(a)—see earlier editions for earlier years.

(a)—Finance Act 1982 s. 81(1)(b)in relation to assets acquired on or after 6April 1982.

F44 Repealed by Finance Act 1990 s. 90(2)(c),(5)and Sch. 19 Part Vwhere a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be, given after 5April 1990.

F45 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F46 See Finance Act 1990 s. 39—power to call for a return in connection with claims for roll-over relief on disposal of shares to employee share ownership trusts.

Marginal Citations

M2 1965

Sch. X (6)

M3 1965

Sch. X 10

M4 1965

S. 45(1)

[European Economic Interest Groupings U.K.

12A European Economic Interest Groupings.Official Journal of the European Communities No. L199/1. U.K.

(1) In this section “grouping” means a European Economic Interest Grouping formed in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2137/85 of 25th July 1985 (“the Council Regulation”), whether registered in Great Britain, in Northern Ireland, or elsewhere.

(2) For the purposes of making assessments to income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax on members of a grouping, an inspector may act under subsection (3) or (4) below.

(3) In the case of a grouping which is registered in Great Britain or Northern Ireland or has an establishment registered in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, and inspector may by a notice given to the grouping require the grouping—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements as may be required in pursuance of the notice.

(4) In the case of any other grouping, an inspector may by a notice given to any member of the grouping resident in the United Kingdom, or if none is to any member of the grouping, require the member—

(a) to make and deliver to the inspector within the time limited by the notice a return containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice, and

(b) to deliver with the return such accounts and statements as may be required in pursuance of the notice,

and a notice may be given to any one of the members concerned or separate notices may be given to each of them or to such of them as the inspector thinks fit.

(5) Every return under this section shall include a declaration by the grouping or member making the return to the effect that the return is to the best of the maker’s knowledge correct and complete.

(6) A notice under this section may require different information, accounts and statements for different periods, in relation to different descriptions of income or gains or in relation to different descriptions of member.

(7) Notices under this section may require different information, accounts and statements in relation to different descriptions of grouping.

(8) Subject to subsection (9) below, where a notice is given under subsection (3) above, everything required to be done shall be done by the grouping acting through its manager or, where there is more than one, any of them; but where the manager of a grouping (or each of them) is a person other than an individual, the grouping shall act through the individual, or any of the individuals, designated in accordance with the Council Regulation as the representative of the manager (or any of them).

(9) Where the contract for the formation of a grouping provides that the grouping shall be validly bound only by two or more managers acting jointly, any declaration required by subsection (5) above to be included in a return made by a grouping shall be given by the appropriate number of managers F47

Textual Amendments

F47 S. 12A and cross-heading inserted (1.7.1989) by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), s. 69, Sch. 11 paras. 2, 5

[F48 Voluntary returns U.K.

Textual Amendments

F48 S. 12D and cross-heading inserted (retrospective) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 87(1)(3) (with s. 87(4))

12D Returns made otherwise than pursuant to a notice U.K.

(1) This section applies where—

(a) a person delivers a purported return (“the relevant return”) under section 8, 8A or 12AA (“the relevant section”) for a year of assessment or other period (“the relevant period”),

(b) no notice under the relevant section has been given to the person in respect of the relevant period, and

(c) HMRC treats the relevant return as a return made and delivered in pursuance of such a notice.

(2) For the purposes of the Taxes Acts—

(a) treat a relevant notice as having been given to the person on the day the relevant return was delivered, and

(b) treat the relevant return as having been made and delivered in pursuance of that notice (and, accordingly, treat it as if it were a return under the relevant section).

(3) “Relevant notice” means—

(a) in relation to section 8 or 8A, a notice under that section in respect of the relevant period;

(b) in relation to section 12AA, a notice under section 12AA(3) requiring the person to deliver a return in respect of the relevant period, on or before the day the relevant return was delivered (or, if later, the earliest day that could be specified under section 12AA).

(4) In subsection (1)(a) “purported return” means anything that—

(a) is in a form, and is delivered in a way, that a corresponding return could have been made and delivered had a relevant notice been given, and

(b) purports to be a return under the relevant section.

(5) Nothing in this section affects sections 34 to 36 or any other provisions of the Taxes Acts specifying a period for the making or delivering of any assessment (including self-assessment) to income tax or capital gains tax.]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 S. 12D power to amend conferred (retrospective) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 87(3)(5)(b) (with s. 87(4))

PART III U.K. OTHER RETURNS AND INFORMATION F49

Textual Amendments

F49 See also—Finance Act 1973 s.38andSch.15 para.2—particulars which may be required from holder of licence under thePetroleum (Production) Act 1934 (c.36).Finance Act 1974 s.47andSch.10 para.3—duty to make returns in relation to tax on first letting or occupation of building after material development, andpara.4—particulars which may be required for purposes of such tax or tax on development gains.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 127—production of computer records.

13 Persons in receipt of taxable income belonging to others. [1952 s.22.] U.K.

(1) Every person who, in whatever capacity, is in receipt of any money or value, or of any profits or gains from any of the sources mentioned in the Income Tax Acts, of or belonging to another person who is chargeable to income tax in respect thereof, or who would be so chargeable if he were resident in the United Kingdom and not an incapacitated person, shall, whenever required to do so by a notice given to him by an inspector, prepare and deliver, within the time mentioned in the notice, a return . . . F50 , signed by him, containing—

(a) a statement of all such money, value, profits or gains, and

(b) the name and address of every person to whom the same belong, and

(c) a declaration whether every such person is of full age,or is a married womanF51 , or is resident in the United Kingdom or is an incapacitated person.

(2) If any person described above is acting jointly with any other person, he shall, in like manner, deliver a return of the names and addresses of all persons joined with him at the time of delivery of the return mentioned in subsection (1) above F52 .

[(3) A notice under this section shall not require information as to any money, value, profits or gains received in a year of assessment ending more than three years before the date of the giving of the notice F53 .]

Textual Amendments

F50 Words omitted repealed byFinance Act 1970 (c. 24, SIF 63:1,2) s.36andSch.8 Part VII.

F51 Words repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148and Sch. 14 Part VIIIfor1990-91and subsequent years.

F52 SeeTaxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.76—protection for certain trustees, agents and receivers who have made returns under s.13.

F53 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 123(1)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.

14 Return of lodgers and inmates. [1952 s.23.] U.K.

Every person, when required to do so by a notice served on him by an inspector, shall, within the time limited by the notice, prepare and deliver to the inspector a return, in writing, containing to the best of his belief—

(a) the name of every lodger or inmate resident in his dwelling-house, and

(b) the name and ordinary place of residence of any such lodger or inmate who has any ordinary place of residence elsewhere at which he can be assessed and who desires to be assessed at such ordinary place of residence.

15 [Return of employees emoluments, etc. U.K.

(1) Every employer, when required to do so by notice from an inspector, shall, within the time limited by the notice, prepare and deliver to the inspector a return relating to persons who are or have been employed by him, containing the information required under the following provisions of this section.

(2) An employer shall not be required to include in his return information relating to a year of assessment beginning more than six years before the year of assessment in which the notice is given.

(3) A notice under subsection (1)—

(a) shall specify the employees for whom a return is to be made and may, in particular, specify individuals (by name or otherwise) or all employees of an employer or all his employees who are in [employment to which Chapter II of Part V of the principal Act applies F54 ]; and

(b) shall specify the years of assessment or other periods with respect to which the information is to be provided.

(4) A notice under subsection (1) may require the return to state the name and place of residence of an employee to whom it relates.

(5) A notice under subsection (1) may require the return to contain, in respect of an employee to whom it relates, particulars of the payments made to him in respect of his employment including—

(a) payments to him in respect of expenses (including sums put at his disposal and paid away by him),

(b) payments made on his behalf and not repaid, and

(c) payments to him for services rendered in connection with a trade or business, whether the services were rendered in the course of his employment or not.

(6) Where, for the purposes of his return, an employer apportions expenses incurred partly in or in connection with a particular matter and partly in or in connection with other matters—

(a) the return shall contain a statement that the sum included in the return is the result of such an apportionment; and

(b) if required to do so by notice from the inspector, he shall prepare and deliver to the inspector, within the time limited by the notice, a return containing full particulars as to the amount apportioned and the manner in which, and the grounds on which, the apportionment has been made.

(7) A notice under subsection (1) may require the return—

(a) to state in respect of an employee to whom it relates whether any benefits are or have been provided for him (or for any other person) by reason of his employment, such as may give rise to charges to tax under[sections 141, 142, 143, 145 or 154 to 165 of the principal Act F55 ](miscellaneous benefits in cash or in kind); and

(b) if such benefits are or have been provided, to contain such particulars of those benefits as may be specified in the notice.

(8) Where such benefits are provided the notice may, without prejudice to subsection (7)(b), require the return to contain the following particulars—

(a) where the benefits are or have been provided by the employer, particulars of the cost of providing them; and

(b) where the benefits are or have been provided otherwise than by the employer himself, the name and business address of any person who has (either by arrangement with the employer, or to his knowledge) provided them.

(9) Where it appears to an inspector that a person has, in any year of assessment, been concerned in providing benefits to or in respect of employees of another, the inspector may at any time up to 6 years after the end of that year of assessment by notice require him to deliver to the inspector, within the time limited by the notice, such particulars of those benefits as may be specified in the notice (so far as known to him) and to include with those particulars the names and addresses (so far as known to him) of the employees concerned.

(10) Where the employer is a body of persons, the secretary of the body or other officer (by whatever name called) performing the duties of secretary shall be treated as the employer for the purposes of this section.

Provided that, where the employer is a body corporate, that body corporate, as well as the secretary or other officer, shall be liable to a penalty for failure to comply with this section.

(11) In this section—

(a) “employee” means an office holder or employee whose emoluments fall to be assessed under Schedule E, and related expressions are to be construed accordingly; and

(b) “director’s or higher-paid employment” has the same meaning as in Chapter II of [Part V of the principal Act F56 ] F57 .] F58 ] F59 ]

Textual Amendments

F54 Finance Act 1989 s. 53(2)(g).Previously

“director's or higher-paid employment”.

F55 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 32.Previously

“section 196 of the principal Act, section 36 [36A(a)] or 37 of the Finance (No.2) Act 1975 [sections 61 [to 67(b)] of the Finance Act 1976 or section 33 of the Finance Act 1977(c)”.

(a) Finance Act 1981 s. 71(2)for 1982-83et seq.

(b) Finance Act 1981 s. 72(3)for 1982-83et seq.

(c) Finance Act 1977 s. 35and Sch. 8 para. 1for 1977-78et seq.

F56 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 32

F57 Finance Act 1976 s.72andSch.9 para. 1,with effect for1976—77as if1976 ss.64and68andSch.7were in operation for that year.

F58 Subs. (11)(b)repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part IV.

F59 See—Finance Act 1974 s.24—person resident or trading etc. in United Kingdom to be treated as employer where duties of an office or employment under a non-resident are performed there for his benefit for continuous period of not less than30days, buts.15(1)to apply only to require return of employee's name and address.S.R. & O. 1921 No.1699 regn.11 (inPart III Vol.5)—inclusion in return of contributions to approved superannuation fund.

16 Fees, commissions, etc. [1956 s.20.] U.K.

(1) Every person carrying on a trade or business shall, if required to do so by notice from an inspector, make and deliver to the inspector a return of all payments of any kind specified in the notice made during a period so specified, being—

(a) payments made in the course of the trade or business, or of such part of the trade or business as may be specified in the notice, for services rendered by persons not employed in the trade or business, or

(b) payments for services rendered in connection with the formation, acquisition, development or disposal of the trade or business, or any part of it, by persons not employed in the trade or business, or

(c) periodical or lump sum payments made in respect of any copyright [public lending right, right in a registered design or design right F60 ].

(2) Every body of persons carrying on any activity which does not constitute a trade or business shall, if required to do so by notice from an inspector, make and deliver to the inspector a return of all payments of a kind specified in the notice made during a period so specified, being—

(a) payments made in the course of carrying on the activity, or such part of the activity as may be specified in the notice, for services rendered by persons not employed by the said body of persons, or

(b) periodical or lump sum payments made in respect of any copyright [public lending right, right in a registered design or design right F60 .]

M5 (3) A return required under either of the preceding subsections shall, if the trade or business or other activity is carried on by an unincorporated body of persons (other than a company), be made and delivered by the person who is or performs the duties of secretary of the body, and the notice shall be framed accordingly.

(4) A return under the preceding provisions of this section shall give the name of the person to whom each payment was made, the amount of the payment and such other particulars (including particulars as to the services or rights in respect of which the payment was made, the period over which any services were rendered and any business name and any business or home address of the person to whom payment was made) as may be specified in the notice.

(5) No person shall be required under the preceding provisions of this section to include in a return—

(a) particulars of any payment from which income tax is deductible, or

(b) particulars of payments made to any one person where the total of the payments to that person which would otherwise fall to be included in the return does not exceed £15, or

(c) particulars of any payment made in a year of assessment ending more than three years before the service of the notice requiring him to make the return.

(6) A person who fails to deliver, within the time limited in any notice served on him under this section, a true and correct return which he is required by the notice to deliver shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50 and, after judgment has been given for that penalty, to a further penalty of the like amount for every day during which the failure continues F61 .

(7) In this section—

(a) references to payments for services include references to payments in the nature of commission of any kind and

references to payments in respect of expenses incurred in connection with the rendering of services, and

(b) references to the making of payments include references to the giving of any valuable consideration,

and the requirement imposed by subsection (4) above to state the amount of a payment shall, in relation to any consideration given otherwise than in the form of money, be construed as a requirement to give particulars of the consideration.

[(8) In subsection (2) above references to a body of persons include references to any department of the Crown, any public or local authority and any other public body F62 .]

Textual Amendments

F60 Words substituted (on and after 1.8.1989) by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), Sch. 7 para. 13; S.I. 1989/816

F61 S. 16(6) repealed by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), ss. 164(6), 187, Sch. 17 Pt. VIII (in relation to any failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989)

F62 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 124(1)with respect to payments made in the year 1988-89or subsequent years.

Marginal Citations

M5 1969 Sch.XX 23(3).

16A [Agency workers. U.K.

(1) Where—

(a) any services which an individual renders or is under an obigation to render under a contract are treated under section 134(1) of the principal Act as the duties of an office or employment held by him; or

(b) any remuneration receivable under or in consequence of arrangements to which subsection (6) of that section applies is treated under that subsection as emoluments of an office or employment held by an individual,

section 15 above shall apply as if that individual were employed—

(i) in a case within paragraph (a) above, by the persons or each of the persons from whom he receives any remuneration under or in consequence of the contract; and

(ii) in a case within paragraph (b) above, by the other party to the arrangements,

and section 16 above shall not apply to any payments made to that individual under or in consequence of that contract or those arrangements.

(2) In subsection (1) above “remuneration”, in relation to an individual, does not include anything in respect of which he would not have been chargeable to tax under Schedule E if it had been receivable in connection with an office or employment held by him but, subject to that, includes every form of payment and all perquisites, benefits and profits whatsoever F63 .]

Textual Amendments

F63 S. 16A inserted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), Sch. 29 para. 6.

17 Interest paid or credited by banks, etc. without deduction of income tax. [1952 s.29.] U.K.

(1) Every person carrying on a trade or business who, in the ordinary course of the operations thereof, receives or retains money in such circumstances that interest becomes payable thereon which is paid or credited without deduction of income tax F64 , and, in particular, every person carrying on the trade or business of banking, shall, if required to do so by notice from an inspector, make and deliver to the inspector, within the time specified in the notice, a return of all interest paid or credited by him as aforesaid during a year[of assessment F65 ] specified in the notice in the course of his trade or business or any such part of his trade or business as may be so specified, giving the names and addresses of the persons to whom the interest was paid or credited and stating, in each case, the amount of the interest F64 :

Provided that—

(a) no interest paid or credited to any person shall be required to be included in any such return if the total amount of the interest paid or credited to that person which would otherwise have fallen to be included in the return does not exceed £15, and F66

(b) the year specified in a notice under this subsection shall not be a year ending more than three years before the date of the service of the notice F67 F68 .

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of so much of subsection (1) above as enables different notices to be served thereunder in relation to different parts of a trade or business, separate notices may be served under that subsection as respects the transactions carried on at any branch or branches respectively specified in the notices, and any such separate notice shall, if served on the manager or other person in charge of the branch or branches in question, be deemed to have been duly served on the person carrying on the trade or business; and where such a separate notice is so served as respects the transactions carried on at any branch or branches, any notice subsequently served under the said subsection (1) on the person carrying on the trade or business shall not be deemed to extend to any transaction to which the said separate notice extends.

(3) This section shall, with any necessary adaptations, apply in relation to the National Savings Bank as if it were a trade or business carried on by the Director of Savings F67 .

(4) This section shall apply only to money received or retained in the United Kingdom, and if a person to whom any interest is paid or credited in respect of any money received or retained in the United Kingdom by notice in writing served on the person paying or crediting the interest—

(a) declares that the person who was beneficially entitled to that interest when it was paid or credited was not then ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and

(b) requests that the interest shall not be included in any return under this section,

the person paying or crediting the interest shall not be required to include that interest in such return.

[(5) The Board may by regulations provide as mentioned in all or any of the following paragraphs—

(a) that a return under subsection (1) above shall contain such further information as is prescribed if the notice requiring the return specifies the information and requires it to be contained in the return;

(b) that a person required to make and deliver a return under subsection (1) above shall furnish with the return such further information as is prescribed if the notice requiring the return specifies the information and requires it to be so furnished;

(c) that if a person is required to furnish information under any provision made under paragraph (b) above, and the notice requiring the return specifies the form in which the information is to be furnished, the person shall furnish the information in that form;

(d) that a notice under subsection (1) above shall not require prescribed information;

and in this subsection “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.

(6) Regulations under subsection (5) above—

(a) shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons,

(b) may make different provision in relation to different cases or descriptions of case, and

(c) may include such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Board to be necessary or expedient F69 .] F70

Textual Amendments

F64 See Finance Act 1990 s. 92(2)(a)(b)—insertion of words

“or after deduction of income tax”

and

“actually paid or credited and (where the interest was paid or credited after deduction of income tax) the amount of the interest from which the tax was deducted and the amount of the tax deducted”

respectively where interest is paid or credited in the year 1991-92or in a subsequent year of assessment.

F65 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 123(2)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.

F66 See Finance Act 1990 ss. 92(2)(c)and 132and Sch. 19 Part V—para. (a)omitted where interest is paid or credited in the year 1991-92or a subsequent year of assessment.

F67 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.119andSch.4 para.2—references ins.17(1)to interest paid or credited by theDirector of Savingsto include references to interest paid or credited before1October1969by thePostmaster Generalto depositors.National Savings Bank Act 1971 (c.29) s.12(3)—s.12(1)of that Act (secrecy)to have effect subject toTaxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.17(3).

F68 S.I. 1986 No. 482 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 10—s. 17to apply to a building society as if references to interest include references to dividends within the meaning of S.I. 1986 No. 482and with the insertion of the words

“or of a building society”

after the words

“trade or business of banking”

in subs. (1).

F69 Finance Act 1990 s. 92(3), (7)—subss. (5)and (6)have effect where interest is paid or credited in the year 1991-92or a subsequent year of assessment.

F70 See S.I. 1990 No. 2231coming into force 30November 1990for 1991-91and subsequent years.

18 Interest paid without deduction of income tax. [1969 Sch.XIII 13(1)(2)(3).] U.K.

(1) Any person by whom any interest is paid in the year 1969—70 or any subsequent year of assessment without deduction of income tax F71 [other than interest to which subsection (4) below appliesF72 ]shall, on being so required by a notice given to him by an inspector, furnish to the inspector, within the time limited by the notice—

(a) the name and address of the person to whom the interest has been paid or on whose behalf the interest has been received, and

(b) the amount of the interest so paid or received F73 ,

and any person who receives any such interest on behalf of another person shall on being so required furnish to the inspector the name and address of the person on whose behalf the interest has been received, and its amount F73 .

(2) The persons to whom [subsection (1) above F74 ] applies include any officer in any public office or in any department of the Crown.

(3) [Subsection (1) above F74 ] shall not impose any obligation on a bank carrying on a bona fide business in the United Kingdom in respect of any interest paid by the bank in the ordinary course of that business.

[(3A) A notice under this section shall not require information with respect to interest paid in a year of assessment ending more than three years before the date of the giving of the notice F75 .]

[(3B) The Board may by regulations provide as mentioned in all or any of the following paragraphs—

(a) that a person required to furnish information under subsection (1) above shall furnish at the same time such further information as is prescribed if the notice concerned specifies the information and requires it to be so furnished;

(b) that if a person is required to furnish information under subsection (1) above or under any provision made under paragraph (a) above, and the notice concerned specifies the form in which the information is to be furnished, the person shall furnish the information in that form;

(c) that a notice under subsection (1) above shall not require prescribed information;

and in this subsection “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.

(3C) Regulations under subsection (3B) above—

(a) shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons,

(b) may make different provision in relation to different cases or descriptions of case, and

(c) may include such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Board to be necessary or expedient F76 .]

[(4) Where interest on any securities issued subject to the condition that interest is payable without deduction of tax is paid without deduction of tax—

(a) any person by whom such interest is paid,

(b) any person who receives, on behalf of any other person who is a registered or inscribed holder of such securities, any interest paid without deduction of tax, and

shall, on being so required by the Board, furnish to the Board—

(i) the names and addresses of the persons to whom such interest has been paid, or on whose behalf such interest has been received, or on whose behalf such securities have been purchased, and

(ii) the amount of the interest so paid or received, or the amount of the securities so purchased F77 .]

Textual Amendments

F71 See Finance Act 1990 s. 92(5)(a), (8)for insertion of words

“or after deduction of tax”

where interest is paid in the year 1991-92or a subsequent year of assessment.

F72 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 7.Repealed by Finance Act 1988 Sch. 14 Part IVfor 1988=89and subsequent years.

F73 See Finance Act 1990 s. 92(5)(b), (c), (8),Words

“so paid or received”

and

“its amount”

replaced by

“actually paid or received and (where the interest has been paid or received after deduction of income tax) the amount of the interest from which the tax has been deducted and the amount of the tax deducted”

and

“the amount actually received and (where the interest has been received after deduction of income tax) the amount of the interest from which the tax has been deducted and the amount of the tax deducted”

respectively where interest is paid in the year 1991-92or in a subsequent year of assessment.

F74 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 7(2).

F75 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 123(3)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.

F76 See Finance Act 1990 s. 92(6), (8)for insertion of subss. (3A)and (3B)where interest is paid in the year 1991-92 or in a subsequent year of assessment.

F77 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 7Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 14 Part IVfor 1988-89and subsequent years.

18A [Other payments and licences etc. U.K.

(1) Any person by whom any payment out of public funds is made by way of grant or subsidy shall, on being so required by a notice given to him by an inspector, furnish to the inspector, within the time limited by the notice—

(a) the name and address of the person to whom the payment has been made or on whose behalf the payment has been received, and

(b) the amount of the payment so made or received,

and any person who receives any such payment on behalf of another person shall on being so required furnish to the inspector the name and address of the person on whose behalf the payment has been received, and its amount.

(2) Any person to whom licences or approvals are issued or a register is maintained shall, on being so required by a notice given to him by an inspector, furnish to the inspector within the time limited by the notice—

(a) the name and address of any person who is or has been the holder of a licence or approval issued by the first-mentioned person, or to whom an entry in that register relates or related; and

(b) particulars of the licence or entry.

(3) The persons to whom this section applies include any department of the Crown, any public or local authority and any other public body.

(4) A notice is not to be given under this section unless (in the inspector’s reasonable opinion) the information required is or may be relevant to any tax liability to which a person is or may be subject, or the amount of any such liability.

(5) A notice under this section shall not require information with respect to a payment which was made, or to a licence, approval or entry which ceased to subsist—

(a) before 6th April 1988; or

(b) in a year of assessment ending more than three years before the date of the giving of the notice.

(6) For the purposes of this section a payment is a payment out of public funds if it is provided directly or indirectly by the Crown, by any Government, public or local authority whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere or by any Community institution F78 .]

Textual Amendments

F78 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 125

19 Information for purposes of Schedule A. [1963 s.18(1); 1969 Sch.XX 1(1), 20(4).] U.K.

(1) For the purpose of obtaining particulars of profits or gains chargeable to tax under Schedule A (or, for chargeable periods ending before 6th April 1970, under Case VIII of Schedule D), the inspector may by notice in writing require—

(a) any lessee, occupier or former lessee or occupier of land (including any person having, or having had, the use of land) to give such information as may be prescribed by the Board as to the terms applying to the lease, occupation or use of the land, and where any of those terms are established by any written instrument, to produce the instrument to the inspector,

(b) any lessee or former lessee of land to give such information as may be so prescribed as to any consideration given for the grant or assignment to him of the tenancy,

(c) any person who as agent manages land or is in receipt of rent or other payments arising from land to furnish the inspector with such particulars relating to payments arising therefrom as may be specified in the notice.

M6 (2) Subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to sums chargeable to tax under Case VI of Schedule D by virtue of any provision of sections [34 to 36 F79 ] of the principal Act as it applies to profits or gains chargeable to tax under Schedule A or Case VIII of Schedule D.

M7 (3) In this section -—

(a) “lease” includes an agreement for a lease, and any tenancy, but does not include a mortgage or heritable security, and “lessee” shall be construed accordingly but shall include the successor in title of a lessee,

(b) in relation to Scotland “assignment” means an assignation.

[(4) A notice under this section shall not require information with respect to—

(a) the terms applying to the lease, occupation or use of the land, or

(b) consideration given, or

(c) payments arising,

in a year of assessment ending more than three years before the date of the giving of the notice F80 ].

Textual Amendments

F79 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F80 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 123(4)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.

Marginal Citations

M6 1963 s. 25(2)

M7 1963 s. 32(1)

Production of accounts, books and other information U.K.

20 [Power to call for documents of taxpayer and others. U.K.

(1) Subject to this section, an inspector may by notice in writing require [a person—

(a) to deliver to him such documents as are in the person’s possession or power and as (in the inspector’s reasonable opinion) contain, or may contain, information relevant to—

(i) any tax liability to which the person is or may be subject, or

(ii) to the amount of any such liability, or

(b) to furnish to him such particulars as the inspector may reasonably require as being relevant to, or to the amount of, any such liability F81 .]

(2) Subject to this section, the Board may by notice in writing require [a person—

(a) to deliver, to a named officer of the Board such documents as are in the person’s possession or power and as (in the Board’s reasonable opinion) contain, or may contain, information relevant to—

(i) any tax liablity to which the person is or may be subject, or

(ii) to the amount of such liability, or

(b) to furnish to a named officer of the Board such particulars as the Board may reasonably require as being relevant to, or to the amount of, any such liability F81 ].

(3) Subject to this section, an inspector may, for the purpose of enquiring into the tax liability of any person (“the taxpayer”), by notice in writing require any [other person F81 ] to deliver to the inspector or, if the person to whom the notice is given so elects, to make available for inspection by a named officer of the Board, such documents as are in his possession or power and as (in the inspector’s reasonable opinion) contain, or may contain, information relevant to any tax liability to which the taxpayer is or may be, or may have been, subject, or to the amount of any such liability[; and the persons who may be required to deliver or make available a document under this subsection include the Director of Savings F82 .]

(4) The persons so subject are—

(a) the taxpayer’s spouse, and any son or daughter of his;

(b) in so far as the inspector’s enquiries relate to liability of the taxpayer in respect of income, profits or gains that were, or may have been, derived from—

(i) any business (past or present) carried on by the taxpayer or his spouse, or

(ii) any business (past or present) with whose management either of them was concerned at a material time,

any person who is carrying on a business, or was doing so at a material time, [any company, whether carrying on a business or not, and the Director of Savings]

F83 F84 (5) For the purposes of subsection (4) above, every director of a company is to be taken as being concerned with the management of any business carried on by the company; and a material time is any time which (in the inspector’s reasonable opinion) is, or may have been, material in the ascertainment of any past or present tax liability of the taxpayer F84 .

(6) The persons who may be treated as “the taxpayer” [for the purposes of this section F85 ] include a company which has ceased to exist and an individual who has died;and in relation to such an individual the references in subsection (4) to the spouse are then instead to the widow or widower (the circumstances that she or he may have re-married being immaterial for the purposes of those subsections)F84 .

(7) Notices under [subsection (1) or (3) above F83 ] are not to be given by an inspector unless he is authorised by the Board for its purposes; and—

(a) a notice is not to be given by him except with the consent of a General or Special Commissioner; and

(b) the Commissioner is to give his consent only on being satisfied that in all the circumstances the inspector is justified in proceeding under this section.

[(7A) A notice under subsection (2) above is not to be given unless the Board have reasonable grounds for believing—

(a) that the person to whom it relates may have failed or may fail to comply with any provision of the Taxes Acts; and

(b) that any such failure is likely to have led or to lead to serious prejudice to the proper assessment or collection of tax F86 .]

[(8) Subject to subsection (8A) below, a notice under subsection (3) above shall name the taxpayer with whose liability the inspector (or, where section 20B(3) applies, the Board) is concerned F85 .]

[(8A) If, on an application made by an inspector and authorised by order of the Board, a Special Commissioner gives his consent, the inspector may give such a notice as is mentioned in subsection (3) above by without naming the taxpayer to whom the notice relates; but such a consent shall not be given unless the Special Commissioner is satisfied—

(a) that the notice relates to a taxpayer whose identity is not known to the inspector or to a class of taxpayers whose individual identities are not so known;

(b) there are reasonable grounds for believing that the taxpayer or any of the class of taxpayers to whom the notice relates may have failed or may fail to comply with any provision of the Taxes Acts;

(c) that any such failure is likely to have led or to lead to serious prejudice to the proper assessment or collection of tax; and

(d) that the information which is likely to be contained in the documents to which the notice relates is not readily available from another source.

(8B) A person to whom there is given a notice under subsection (8A) above may, by notice in writing given to the inspector within thirty days after the date of the notice under that subsection object to that notice on the ground that it would be onerous for him to comply with it; and if the matter is not resolved by agreement, it shall be referred to the Special Commissioners, who may confirm, vary or cancel that notice F87 .]

[(8C) In this section references to documents do not include—

(a) personal records (as defined in section 12 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984), or

(b) journalistic material (as defined in section 13 of that Act),

and references to particulars do not include particulars contained in such personal records or journalistic material.

(8D) Subject to subsection (8C) above, references in this section to documents and particulars are to those specified or described in the notice in question; and—

(a) the notice shall require documents to be delivered (or delivered or made available), or particulars to be furnished, within such time (which, except in the case of a notice under subsection (2) above, shall not be less than thirty days after the date of the notice) as may be specified in the notice; and

(b) the person to whom they are delivered, made available or furnished may take copies of them or of extracts from them F88 .]

(9) To the extent specified in section 20B below, the above provisions are subject to the restrictions of that section F89 .] F90

Textual Amendments

F81 Finance Act 1989 s. 142(2), (3)and (4)(a)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989. Previously “a person to deliver to him such documents as are in the person's possession or power and as (in the inspector's reasonable opinion) contain, or may contain, information relevant to any tax liability to which the person is or may be subject, or to the amount of any such liability.”, “a person to deliver, to a named officer of theirs, such documents as are in the person's possession or power and as (in the Board's reasonable opinion) contain, or may contain, information relevant to any tax liability to which he is or may be subject, or to the amount of any such liability.”

and

“of the persons who in relation to the taxpayer are subject to this subsection”

respectively.

F82 Finance Act 1989 s. 142(4)(b)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.

F83 Finance Act 1988 s. 126(1), (2), (6)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.Previously

“and any company whether carrying on a business or not”

and

“this section”.

F84 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 142(5)(6)(b), (10)and 187 and Sch. 17 Part VIIIwith respect to notices given or warrants issued on or after 27July 1989.

F85 Finance Act 1989 s. 142(6)(a), (7)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.Previously

“under subsections (3) and (4)”

and

“(8) The references in subsections (1), (2) and (3) above to documents are to those specified or described in the notice in question; and—(a) the notice shall require them to be delivered or (as the case may be) made available within such time as may be there specified; and (b) the person to whom they are delivered or made available may take copies of, or extracts from them; and a notice under subsection (3) shall name the taxpayer with whose liability the inspector (or, as the case may be, the Board) is concerned.”

respectively.

F86 Finance Act 1990 s. 93with respect to notices given on or after 26July 1990.

F87 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 126(3), (6)with respect to notices given after 29July 1988.

F88 Finance Act 1989 s. 142(8), (10)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.

F89 Finance Act 1976 s. 57and Sch. 6.

F90 See Finance Act 1990 s. 125(1), (2), (6)—in respect of notices given on or after 26July 1990, subss.(1)to (8)and (8C)to (9)to apply as if references to tax liability included reference to liability to a tax of a member state which is a tax on income or capital.

20A [Power to call for papers of tax accountant. U.K.

(1) Where after the passing of the Finance Act 1976 F91 a person—

(a) is convicted of an offence in relation to tax (whenever committed) by or before any court in the United Kingdom; or

(b) has [a penalty imposed on F92 ] him (whether before or after the passing of that Act) under section 99 of this Act,

and he has stood in relation to others as tax accountant, an inspector authorised by the Board for the purpose of this section may by notice in writing require the person to deliver to him such documents as are in his possession or power and as (in the inspector’s reasonable opinion) contain information relevant to any tax liability to which any client of his is or has been, or may be or have been, subject, or to the amount of any such liability.

[(1A) The reference to documents in subsection (1) above does not include—

(a) personal records (as defined in section 12 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984), or

(b) journalistic material (as defined in section 13 of that Act).

(1B) Subject to subsection (1A) above, the reference to documents in subsection (1) above is to those specified or described in the notice in question; and—

(a) the notice shall require documents to be delivered within such time (which shall not be less than thirty days after the date of the notice) as may be specified in the notice; and

(b) the inspector may take copies of them or of extracts from them F93 .]

(2) Subsection (1) above does not have effect in relation to a person convicted or penalised as there mentioned for so long as an appeal is pending against the conviction or [penalty F94 ]; and—

(a) for this purpose an appeal is to be treated as pending (where one is competent but has not been brought) until the expiration of the time for bringing it or, in the case of a conviction in Scotland, until the expiration of 28 days from the date of conviction; and

(b) references here to appeal include further appeal but, in relation to the [imposition F94 ] of a penalty, do not include appeal against the amount of the penalty.

(3) A notice is not to be given to any person under this section unless with the consent of the appropriate judicial authority; and that authority is to give his consent only on being satisfied that in all the circumstances the inspector is justified in so proceeding.

(4) The power to give a notice under this section, by reference to a person’s conviction or the [imposition on F95 ] him of a penalty, ceases at the expiration of the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which it was first exercisable in his case by virtue of that conviction or [penalty F95 ].

(5) To the extent specified in section 20B below, the above provisions are subject to the restrictions of that section F96 .]

Textual Amendments

F91 TheFinance Act 1976received the Royal Assent on29July1976.

F92 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(2)(a).Previously

“awarded against him a penalty incurred by”.

F93 Finance Act 1989 s. 143with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.Previously

“for this purpose section 20(8) above applies, substituting “the client” for “the taxpayer”.”

F94 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(2)(b)Previously

“award”.

F95 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(2)(c)Previously

“award against” and “award”.

F96 Finance Act 1976 s.57andSch.6.

20B [Restrictions on powers under ss.20 and 20A. U.K.

(1) Before a notice is given to a person by an inspector under [section 20(1), (3) or (8A) F97 ], or under section 20A, the person must have been given a reasonable opportunity to deliver (or, in the case of section 20(3), to deliver or make available) the documents in question [, or to furnish the particulars in question F98 ]; and the inspector must not apply for consent under [section 20(7) or (8A) F97 ] or, as the case may be, section 20A(3), until the person has been given that opportunity.

[(1A) Subject to subsection (1B) below, where a notice is given to any person under section 20(3) the inspector shall give a copy of the notice to the taxpayer to whom it relates.

(1B) If, on an application by the inspector, a General or Special Commissioner so directs, a copy of a notice under section 20(3) need not be given to the taxpayer to whom it relates; but such a direction shall not be given unless the Commissioner is satisfied that the inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting the taxpayer of fraud F99 .]

(2) A notice under section 20(1) does not oblige a person to deliver documents [or furnish particulars F99 ] relating to the conduct of any pending appeal by him; a notice under section 20(3) [or (8A) F100 ] does not oblige a person to deliver or make available documents relating to the conduct of a pending appeal by the taxpayer; and a notice under section 20A does not oblige a person to deliver documents relating to the conduct of a pending appeal by the client.

“Appeal” means appeal relating to tax.

(3) An inspector cannot under section 20(1) or (3), or under section 20A(1), give notice to a barrister, advocate or solicitor, but the notice must in any such case be given (if at all) by the Board; and accordingly in relation to a barrister, advocate or solicitor for references in section 20(3) and (4) and section 20A to the inspector there are substituted references to the Board.

(4) To comply with a notice under section 20(1) or section 20A(1), and as an alternative to delivering documents to comply with a notice under section 20(3),[or (8A) F100 ] copies of documents may be delivered instead of the originals; but—

(a) the copies must be photographic or otherwise by way of facsimile; and

(b) if so required by the inspector (or, as the case may be, the Board) in the case of any documents specified in the requirement, the originals must be made available for inspection by a named officer of the Board (failure to comply with this requirement counting as failure to comply with the notice).

(5) A notice under section 20(3), [does not oblige a person F101 ] to deliver or make available any document the whole of which originates more than 6 years before the date of the notice.

(6) But subsection (5) does not apply where the notice is so expressed as to exclude the restrictions of that subsection; and it can only be so expressed where—

(a) the notice being given by an inspector with consent under section 20(7), the Commissioner giving consent has also given approval to the exclusion;

(b) the notice being given by the Board, they have applied to a General or Special Commissioner for, and obtained, that approval.

For this purpose the Commissioner gives approval only if satisfied, on the inspector’s or the Board’s application, that there is reasonable ground for believing that tax has, or may have been, lost to the Crown owing to the fraud of the taxpayer.

(7) A notice under section 20(3) in relation to a taxpayer who has died cannot be givento a person by virtue of her or his being the taxpayer’s widower, son or daughterF102 if more than 6 years have elapsed since the death.

(8) A notice under section 20(3) [or (8A) F100 ] or section 20A(1) does not oblige a barrister, advocate or a solicitor to deliver or make available, without his client’s consent, any document with respect to which a claim to professional privilege could be maintained F103 ].

[(9) Subject to subsections (11) and (12) below, a notice under section 20(3) or (8A)—

(a) does not oblige a person who has been appointed as an auditor for the purposes of any enactment to deliver or make available documents which are his property and were created by him or on his behalf for or in connection with the performance of his functions under that enactment, and

(b) does not oblige a tax adviser to deliver or make available documents which are his property and consist of relevant communications.

(10) In subsection (9) above “relevant communications” means communications between the tax adviser and—

(a) a person in relation to whose tax affairs he has been appointed, or

(b) any other tax adviser of such a person,

the purpose of which is the giving or obtaining of advice about any of those tax affairs; and in subsection (9) above and this subsection “tax adviser” means a person appointed to give advice about the tax affairs of another person (whether appointed directly by that other person or by another tax adviser of his).

(11) Subject to subsection (13) below, subsection (9) above shall not have effect in relation to any document which contains information explaining any information, return, accounts or other document which the person to whom the notice is given has, as tax accountant, assisted any client of his in preparing for, or delivering to, the inspector or the Board.

(12) Subject to subsection (13) below, in the case of a notice under section 20(8A) subsection (9) above shall not have effect in relation to any document which contains information giving the identity or address of any taxpayer to whom the notice relates or of any person who has acted on behalf of any such person.

(13) Subsection (9) above is not disapplied by subsection (11) or (12) above in the case of any document if—

(a) the information within subsection (11) or (12) is contained in some other document, and

(b) either—

(i) that other document, or a copy of it, has been delivered to the inspector or the Board, or

(ii) that other document has been inspected by an officer of the Board.

(14) Where subsection (9) above is disapplied by subsection (11) or (12) above in the case of a document, the person to whom the notice is given either shall deliver the document to the inspector or make it available for inspection by an officer of the Board or shall—

(a) deliver to the inspector (or, where subsection (3) above applies, the Board) a copy (which is photographic or otherwise by way of facsimile) of any parts of the document which contain the infomation within subsection (11) or (12), and

(b) if so required by the inspector (or, as the case may be, the Board), make available for inspection by a named officer of the Board such parts of the document as contain that information;

and failure to comply with any requirement under paragraph (b) above shall constitute a failure to comply with the notice F104 .]

Textual Amendments

F97 Finance Act 1988 s. 126(4), (6)with respect to notices given on or after 29thJuly 1988.Previously

“section 20(1) or (3)”

and

“section 20(7)”

in subs. (1).

F98 Finance Act 1989 s. 144(2), (8)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.

F99 Finance Act 1989 s. 144(3)(4), (8)with respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.

F100 Finance Act 1988 s. 126(4)With respect to notices given on or after 27July 1988.

F101 Finance Act 1989 s. 144(5), (8)with respect to notices given on or after27July 1989.Previously

“if given to a person who is carrying on a business or was doing so at any time material to the subject matter of the inspector's (or the Board's) enquiries, or if given to a company (whether carrying on a business or not), does not oblige the person or company”.

F102 Words repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 144(6), (8)and 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIwith respect to notices given on or after 27July 1989.

F103 Finance Act 1976 s. 57and Sch. 6.

F104 Finance Act 1989 s. 144(7), (8)in respect of notices given on or after 27July 1989Previously

“9. A notice under section 20(3) [or 8A(a)] does not, in the case of a person who (in the course of a business carried on by him) has stood in relation to another as tax accountant, oblige that person to deliver or make available documents which are his (the accountant's) property and originate as working papers of that relationship(b).]”

(a) Finance Act 1988 s. 126(4)with respect to notices given on or after 29July 1988.

(b) Finance Act 1976 s. 57and Sch. 6 (with subs. (1) to (8)).

20BB [Falsification etc. of documents. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4) below, a person shall be guilty of an offence if he intentionally falsifies, conceals, destroys or otherwise disposes of, or causes or permits the falsification, concealment, destruction or disposal of, a document which—

(a) he has been required by a notice under section 20 or 20A above, or

(b) he has been given an opportunity in accordance with section 20B(1) above,

to deliver, or to deliver or make available for inspection.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under subsection (1) above if he acts—

(a) with the written permission of a General or Special Commissioner, the inspector or an officer of the Board,

(b) after the document has been delivered or, in the case within section 20(3) or (8A) above, inspected, or

(c) after a copy has been delivered in accordance with section 20B(4) or (14) above and the original has been inspected.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subsection (1)(a) above if he acts after the end of the period of two years beginning with the date on which the notice is given, unless before the end of that period the inspector or an officer of the Board has notified the person in writing that the notice has not been complied with to his satisfaction.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under subsection (1)(b) above if he acts—

(a) after the date of the period of six months beginning with the date on which an opportunity to deliver the document was given, or

(b) after an application for consent to a notice being given in relation to the document has been refused.

(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) above shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;

(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or both F105 .]

Textual Amendments

F105 Finance Act 1989 s. 145(1), (2)in relation to any falsification, concealment, destruction or disposal of a document occurring on or after 27July 1989.

20C [Entry with warrant to obtain documents. U.K.

(1) If the appropriate judicial authority is satisfied on information on oath given by an officer of the Board that—

(a) there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence involving [serious fraud F106 ] in connection with, or in relation to, tax [is being, has been or is about to be F106 ] committed and that evidence of it is to be found on premises specified in the information; and

(b) in applying under this section, the officer acts with the approval of the Board given in relation to the particular case,

the authority may issue a warrant in writing authorising an officer of the Board to enter the premises, if necessary by force, at any time within 14 days from the time of issue of the warrant, and search them.

(1A) Without prejudice to the generality of the concept of serious fraud—

(a) any offence which involves fraud is for the purposes of this section an offence involving serious fraud if its commission had led, or is intended or likely to lead, either to substantial financial gain to any person or to serious prejudice to the proper assessment or collection of tax; and

(b) an offence which, if considered alone, would not be regarded as involving serious fraud may nevertheless be so regarded if there is reasonable ground for suspecting that it forms part of a course of conduct which is, or but for its detection would be, likely to result in serious prejudice to the proper assessment or collection of tax.

(1B) The powers conferred by a warrant under this section shall not be exercisable—

(a) by more than such number of officers of the Board as may be specified in the warrant;

(b) outside such times of day as may be so specified;

(c) if the warrant so provides, otherwise than in the presence of a constable in uniform F107 .]

(2) Section 4A of the Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 (Board’s functions to be exercisable by an officer acting under their authority) does not apply to the giving of Board approval under this section F108 .

[(3) An officer who enters the premises under the authority of a warrant under this section may—

(a) take with him such other persons as appear to him to be necessary;

(b) seize and remove any things whatsoever found there which he has reasonable cause to believe may be required as evidence for the purposes of proceedings in respect of such an offence as is mentioned in subsection (1) above; and

(c) search or cause to be searched any person found on the premises whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be in possession of any such things;

but no person shall be searched except by a person of the same sex.

(4) Nothing in subsection (3) above authorises the seizure and removal of documents in the possession of a barrister, advocate or solicitor with respect to which a claim to professional priviledge could be maintained.

(5) An officer of the Board seeking to exercise the powers conferred by a warrant under this section or, if there is more than one such officer, that one of them who is in charge of the search—

(a) if the occupier of the premises concerned is present at the time the search is to begin, shall supply a copy of the warrant endorsed with his name to the occupier;

(b) if at that time the occupier is not present but a person who appears to the officer to be in charge of the premises is present, shall supply such a copy to that person; and

(c) if neither paragraph (a) nor paragraph (b) above applies, shall leave such a copy in a prominent place on the premises.

(6) Where entry to premises has been made with a warrant under this section, and the officer making the entry has seized any things under the authority of the warrant, he shall endorse on or attach to the warrant a list of the things seized.

(7) Subsections (10) to (12) of section 16 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (return, retention and inspection of warrants) apply to a warrant under this section (together with any list endorsed on or attached to it under subsection (6) above) as they apply to a warrant issued to a constable under any enactment.

(8) Subsection (7) above extends to England and Wales only F109 .] F110 ]

Textual Amendments

F106 Finance Act 1989 s. 146(2), (5)with respect to warrants issued on or after 27July 1989.Previously

“any form of fraud” and “has been”

respectively.

F107 Finance Act 1989 s. 146(3), (5)with respect to warrants issued on or after 27July 1989.

F108 TheInland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 s.4Ais reproduced inPart II Vol.5.

F109 Finance Act 1989 s. 146(4), (5)with respect to warrants issued on or after 27July 1989.Previously

“(3) On entering the premises with a warrant under this section, the officer may seize and remove any things whatsoever found there which he has reasonable cause to believe may be required as evidence for the purposes of proceedings in respect of such an offence as is mentioned in subsection (1) above.But this does not authorise the seizure and removal of documents in the possession of a barrister, advocate or solicitor with respect to which a claim to professional privilege could be maintained.(4) Where entry to premises has been made with a warrant under this section, and the officer making the entry has seized any things under the authority of the warrant, he shall, if so requested by a person showing himself either—(a) to be the occupier of the premises; or(b) to have had the possession or custody of those things immediately before the seizure,provide that person with a list of them.(5) Where documents are seized which relate to any business, and it is shown that access to them is required for the continued conduct of the business, the officer who has seized them shall afford reasonable access to the documents to the person carrying on the business.”

F110 Finance Act 1976 s.57andSch.6.

20CC [Procedure where documents etc. are removed. U.K.

(1) An officer of the Board who removes anything in the exercise of the power conferred by section 20C above shall, if so requested by a person showing himself—

(a) to be the occupier of premises from which it was removed, or

(b) to have had custody or control of it immediately before the removal,

provide that person with a record of what he removed.

(2) The officer of the Board shall provide the record within a reasonable time from the making of the request for it.

(3) Where anything which has been removed by an officer of the Board as mentioned in subsection (1) above is of such a nature that a photograph or copy of it would be sufficient—

(a) for use as evidence at a trial for an offence, or

(b) for forensic examination or for investigation in connection with an offence,

it shall not be retained longer than is necessary to establish that fact and to obtain the photograph or copy.

(4) Subject to subsection (8) below, if a request for permission to be granted access to anything which—

(a) has been removed by an officer of the Board, and

(b) is retained by the Board for the purpose of investigating an offence,

is made to the officer in overall charge of the investigation by a person who had custody or control of the thing immediately before it was so removed or by someone acting on behalf of any such person, the officer shall allow the person who made the request access to it under the supervision of an officer of the Board.

(5) Subject to subsection (8) below, if a request for a photograph or copy of any such thing is made to the officer in overall charge of the investigation by a person who had custody or control of the thing immediately before it was so removed, or by someone acting on behalf of any such person, the officer shall—

(a) allow the person who made the request access to it under the supervision of an officer of the Board for the purpose of photographing it or copying it, or

(b) photograph or copy it, or cause it to be photographed or copied.

(6) Where anything is photographed or copied under subsection (5)(b) above the photograph or copy shall be supplied to the person who made the request.

(7) The photograph or copy shall be supplied within a reasonable time from the making of the request.

(8) There is no duty under this section to grant access to, or to supply a photograph or copy of, anything if the officer in overall charge of the investigation for the purposes of which it was removed has reasonable grounds for believing that to do so would prejudice—

(a) that investigation;

(b) the investigation of an offence other than the offence for the purposes of the investigation of which the thing was removed; or

(c) any criminal proceedings which may be brought as a result of—

(i) the investigation of which he is in charge, or

(ii) any such investigation as is mentioned in paragraph (b) above.

(9) Any reference in this section to the officer in overall charge of the investigation is a reference to the person whose name and address are endorsed on the warrant concerned as being the officer so in charge F111 .]

Textual Amendments

F111 S. 20CC inserted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 147, with respect to warrants issued on or after 27 July 1989

20D [Interpretation of ss.20 to 20C. U.K.

(1) For the purposes of section 20A and 20C above, “the appropriate judicial authority” is—

(a) in England and Wales, a Circuit judge;

(b) in Scotland, a sheriff; and

(c) in Northern Ireland, a county court judge.

(2) For the purposes of sections 20 and 20A, a person stands in relation to another as tax accountant at any time when he assists the other in the preparation[or delivery of any information, return, accounts or other document which he knows will be, or is or are likely to be, used F112 ] for any purpose of tax; and his clients are all those to whom he stands or has stood in that relationship. F113 ]

[(3) Without prejudice to section 127 of the Finance Act 1988, in sections 20 to 20CC above “document” has, subject to sections 20(8C) and 20(1A), the same meaning as it has—

(a) in relation to England and Wales, in Part I of the Civil Evidence Act 1968,

(b) in relation to Scotland, in Part III of the Law reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968, and

(c) in relation to Northern Ireland, in Part I of the Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 F114 .]

Textual Amendments

F112 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 148(2).

F113 Finance Act 1976 s. 57and Sch. 6

F114 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 148(3)

21 Stock jobbers’ transactions. [1966 s.50(1)—(4).] U.K.

(1) The Board may exercise the powers conferred by this section as respects, and in connection with, any business which is, or has been, carried on by a [market maker F115 ] . . . F116 whose liability to tax in respect of the business is determined on the footing that any excess of his payments in respect of interest on securities over his receipts in respect thereof, being payments made or receipts accrued in pursuance of a contract for the sale or purchase of the securities, is to be treated for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts or the Corporation Tax Acts as an annual payment made by him F117 .

(2) With a view to obtaining information about transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, the Board may serve on the [market maker F115 ] . . . F116 by whom the business is or has been carried on a notice requiring him to make available within a time specified in the notice, for inspection by an inspector or other officer of the Board, all such books, accounts and other documents in his possession or power as may be specified or described in the notice, being books, accounts or other documents which in the opinion of the Board contain or may contain information directly or indirectly relating to any such transactions.

(3) The Board may serve on any broker a notice requiring him to make available within a time specified in the notice, for inspection by an inspector or other officer of the Board, all such books, accounts or other documents in his possession or power as may be specified or described in the notice, being books, accounts or other documents which in the opinion of the Board contain or may contain information relating directly or indirectly to transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above.

(4) The Board may by notice in writing require—

(a) a person, other than a broker, who has directly or indirectly received from a [market maker F118 ] . . . F119 any payment made by the [market maker F118 ] . . . F119 in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, being a payment treated by the [market maker F118 ] . . . F119 as made in respect of interest on securities, to state within a time specified in the notice whether the amount received is in whole or in part received on behalf of, or for payment on to, any other person and, if so, to furnish the name and address of that other person, or

(b) a person who has directly or indirectly paid to a [market maker F118 ] . . . F119 any sum constituting a receipt by him in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, being a receipt treated by the [market maker F118 ] . . . F119 as accruing in respect of interest on securities, to state within a time specified in the notice whether the amount paid is in whole or in part received from, or paid on account of, any other person and, if so, to furnish the name and address of that other person.

M8 (5) If, for the purpose of obtaining(from any persons whether brokers or [market makers F118 ] or not) information directly or indirectly relating to any transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, any person in whose name any securities are registered is so required by notice in writing by the Board, he shall state whether or not he is the beneficial owner of those securities, and, if not the beneficial owner of those securities or any of them, shall furnish the name and address of the person or persons on whose behalf the securities are registered in his name.

M9 (6) The Board may not exercise their powers[[1966 s.50(6)—(7).]] under the preceding provisions of this section for the purpose of obtaining information relating to transactions in any year of assessment ending more than six years before the service of the notice.

(7) In this section—

• [“broker” in relation to securities, means a member of The Stock Exchange who carries on his business in the United Kingdom and is not a market maker in securities of the kind concerned F118 ;]

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F119

• [“market maker”, in relation to securities, means a person who—

(a) holds himself out at all normal times in compliance with the rules of The Stock Exchange as willing to buy and sell securities of the kind concerned at a price specified by him, and

(b) is recognised as doing so by the Council of The Stock Exchange F120 ;]

• “securities” includes shares and stock, and references to interest include references to dividends.

Textual Amendments

F115 Finance Act 1986 s. 63and Sch. 18 para. 7in relation to transactions effected on or after 27October 1986.Previously

“jobber”.

F116 Words omitted repealed byFinance Act 1973 ss.54, 59(7), Sch.21 para.5andSch.22 Part IVfrom25March1973except in relation to things done before that day.

F117 See Finance Act 1986 Sch. 18 para. 9(1)(b)—the Board may by regulations substitute s. 21(1)and amend other provisions of s. 21.

F118 Finance Act 1986 s. 63and Sch. 18 para. 7in relation to transactions effected on or after 27October 1986.Previously

“jobber”

in subs. (4), “jobbers”

in subs. (5),and

“ “broker” means a member of The Stock Exchange who carries on his business in the United Kingdom and is not a jobber;(a)”

in subs. (7).

(a)Finance Act 1973 s. 54and Sch. 21 para. 5on or after 25March 1973except in relation to things done before that day.

F119 Words omitted repealed byFinance Act 1973 ss.54, 59(7), Sch.21 para.5andSch.22 Part IVfrom25March1973except in relation to things done before that day.

F120 Finance Act 1986 s. 63and Sch. 18 para. 7in relation to transactions effected on or after 27October 1986.Previously

“ “jobber” means a member of The Stock Exchange who is recognised by the Council thereof as carrying on the business of a jobber and carries on that business in the United Kingdom(a)”.

(a) Finance Act 1973 s. 54and Sch. 21 para. 5on or after 25March 1973Except in relation to things done before that day.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4 S. 21 applied (with modifications) (22.3.1992) by S.I. 1992/569, regs.18,22

C5 S. 21 applied (with modifications) (24.9.1992) by S.I. 1992/2074, regs.9,12

C6 S. 21 applied (with modifications) (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.16

Marginal Citations

M8 1952 s.250(4); 1964(M) Sch.IV(1); 1966 s.50(5).

M9 1966 S.50(6)-(7)

Surtax U.K.

22 Additional particulars for surtax. [1952 s.232; 1964(M) Sch.IV; 1969 Sch.XX 17(25).] U.K.

The Board may . . . F121 , by notice in writing require any individual to furnish to them within such time as they may prescribe, not being less than twenty-eight days, such particulars as to the several sources of his income and the amount arising from each source, and as to the nature and the amount of any deductions claimed to be allowed therefrom as they consider necessary.

Textual Amendments

F121 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37and38andSch.14 Part II.

23 Power to obtain copies of registers of securities. [1952 s.233; 1964(M) Sch.IV(1).] U.K.

(1) The Board may cause to be served upon any body corporate a notice requiring them to deliver to the Board within a specified time, being not less than twenty-one days, a copy, certified by a duly authorised officer of such body, of the whole of, or any specified class of entries in, any register containing the names of the holders of any securities issued by them.

(2) On delivery of the copy in accordance with the notice payment shall be made therefor at the rate of five shillings F122 in respect of each one hundred entries.

(3) In this section “security” includes shares, stock, debentures and debenture stock, and “entry” means, in relation to any register, so much thereof as relates to the securities held by any one person.

Textual Amendments

F122 See theDecimal Currency Act 1969 (c.19) ss.10and16(1)—references to shillings and pence in enactments passed before15February1971to be read on and after that day as referring to equivalent amount in the new currency.

24 Power to obtain information as to income from securities. [1952 s.234; 1964(M) Sch.IV(1).] U.K.

(1) The Board may by notice in writing require—

(a) any person, being a registered or inscribed holder of any United Kingdom securities, who, in any year of assessment, has received on behalf of any other person any income arising from any such securities, or

(b) any person by or through whom, in any year of assessment, any income in respect of United Kingdom securities has been paid in any case where—

(i) the registered or inscribed holder of the securities is not the person to whom the income was paid, or

(ii) the securities are bearer securities,

to furnish them, within such time as may be specified in the notice (not being less than twenty-eight days) with particulars of the amounts so received or, as the case may be, paid in that year (other than amounts received or paid in that year on behalf of or to any one person which did not exceed in the aggregate the sum of £15), the securities to which those amounts respectively relate, and the names and addresses of the persons on whose behalf or to whom those amounts were respectively received or paid.

(2) The Board may similarly require any person who acts or has acted, directly or indirectly, as an intermediary or as one of a series of intermediaries between any such person as is specified in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above and the person or persons beneficially entitled to the income in question to furnish such information as the Board may require for the purpose of enabling them to ascertain the names and addresses of the person or persons beneficially entitled to the income and the respective amounts to which those persons were beneficially entitled.

(3) Nothing in this section shall impose on any bank the obligation to disclose any particulars relating to income from securities in cases where the person beneficially entitled to the income is not resident in the United Kingdom F123 .

(4) In this section—

• “securities” includes shares, stocks, bonds, debentures and debenture stock, and

• “United Kingdom securities” means any securities issued by or on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or the Government of Northern Ireland and any securities of a body corporate incorporated in any part of the United Kingdom.

Textual Amendments

F123 See, however,Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 816(3)where a person resides in territory to which arrangements underIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 788 (agreements with other countries for double taxation relief)apply.

Chargeable gains U.K.

25 Issuing houses, stockbrokers, auctioneers, etc. [1965 Sch.X 7(1)—(4).] U.K.

(1) For the purpose of obtaining particulars of chargeable gains an inspector may by notice in writing require a return under any of the provisions of this section.

(2) An issuing house or other person carrying on a business of effecting public issues of shares of securities in any company, or placings of shares or securities in any company, either on behalf of the company, or on behalf of holders of blocks of shares or securities which have not previously been the subject of a public issue or placing, may be required to make a return of all such public issues or placings effected by that person in the course of the business in the period specified in the notice requiring the return, giving particulars of the persons to or with whom the shares or securities are issued, allotted or placed, and the number or amount of the shares or securities so obtained by them respectively.

(3) A person not carrying on such a business may be required to make a return as regards any such public issue or placing effected by that person and specified in the notice, giving particulars of the persons to or with whom the shares or securities are issued, allotted, or placed and the number or amount of the shares or securities so obtained by them respectively.

(4) A member of a stock exchange in the United Kingdom F124 , other than a [market maker F125 ], may be required to make a return giving particulars of any transactions effected by him in the course of his business in the period specified in the notice requiring the return and giving particulars of—

(a) the parties to the transactions,

(b) the number or amount of the shares or securities dealt with in the respective transactions, and

(c) the amount or value of the consideration.

M10 (5) A person (other than a member of a stock exchange in the United Kingdom F124 ) who acts as an agent or broker in the United Kingdom in transactions in shares or securities may be required to make a return giving particulars of any such transactions effected by him after 5th April 1968 and in the period specified in the notice, and giving particulars of—

(a) the parties to the transactions,

(b) the number or amount of the shares or securities dealt with in the respective transactions, and

(c) the amount or value of the consideration.

M11 (6) The committee or other person or body of persons responsible for managing a clearing house for any terminal market in commodities may be required to make a return giving particulars of any transactions effected through the clearing house in the period specified in the notice requiring the return and giving particulars of—

(a) the parties to the transactions,

(b) the amounts dealt with in those transactions respectively, and

(c) the amount or value of the consideration.

(7) An auctioneer, and any person carrying on a trade of dealing in any description of tangible movable property, or of acting as an agent or intermediary in dealings in any description of tangible movable property, may be rrequired to make a return giving particulars of any transactions effected by or through him in which any asset which is tangible movable property is disposed of for a consideration the amount or value of which, in the hands of the recipient, exceeds [£6,000 F126 ].

(8) No person shall be required under this section to include in a return particulars of any transaction effected more than three years before the service of the notice requiring him to make the return.

(9) In this section “company” and “shares” shall be construed in accordance with [sections 64, 93 and 155(1) of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F127 ].

[(10) In this section “market maker”, in relation to shares or securities, means a person who—

(a) holds himself out at all normal times in compliance with the rules of The Stock Exchange as willing to buy and sell shares or securities of the kind concerned at a price specified by him, and

(b) is recognised as doing so by the Council of The Stock Exchange F128

Textual Amendments

F124 SeeFinance Act 1973 s.54(1)—to be construed as reference to a member of The Stock Exchange on and after25March1973except in relation to things done before that day.

F125 Finance Act 1986 s. 63and Sch. 18 para. 8in relation to transactions on or after 27October 1986.Previously

“jobber”.

F126 Finance Act 1989 s.123in relation to disposals on or after6April1989.Previously

“£3,000”

byFinance Act 1982 s.81(1)(c)in relation to disposals on or after 6April 1982.

F127 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para. 9for1979—80et seq.

F128 Finance Act 1986 s. 63and Sch. 18 para. 8in relation to transactions on or after 27October 1986.

Marginal Citations

M10 1969 Sch. XIX 13

M11 1965 Sch. X 7(5)-(7)

26 Nominee shareholders. [1952 s.250(4); 1964(M) Sch.IV(1); 1965 Sch.X 8.] U.K.

(1) If, for the purpose of obtaining particulars of chargeable gains, any person in whose name any shares of a company are registered is so required by notice in writing by the Board or an inspector, he shall state whether or not he is the beneficial owner of those shares and, if not the beneficial owner of those shares or any of them, shall furnish the name and address of the person or persons on whose behalf the shares are registered in his name.

(2) In this section references to shares include references to securities and loan capital.

27 Settled property. [1952 s.410; 1964(M) Sch.IV(1); 1965 Sch.X 9.] U.K.

(1) The Board may by notice in writing require any person, being a party to a settlement, to furnish them within such time as they may direct (not being less than twenty-eight days) with such particulars as they think necessary for the purposes of [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F129 ].

(2) In this section “settlement” has the meaning given by section [681(4) F130 ] of the principal Act.

Textual Amendments

F129 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2), s. 157(2)andSch.7 para. 8for1979—80et seq.

F130 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para 32.

28 Non-resident companies and trusts. [1965 Sch.X 11(1).] U.K.

(1) A person holding shares or securities in a company which is not resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, or who is interested in settled property under a settlement the trustees of which are not resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, may be required by a notice by the Board to give such particulars as the Board may consider are required to determine whether the company or trust falls within [section 15 F131 ] (non-resident companies) or [section 17 F131 ] (non-resident trusts) of the [Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F131 ], and whether any chargeable gains F132 have accrued to that company, or to the trustees of that settlement, in respect of which the person to whom the notice is given is liable to capital gains tax F132 under the said [section 15 F131 ] or the said [section 17 F131 ].

(2) In this section “settled property” has the meaning given by[section 51 of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F133 ] and the “company” and “shares” shall be construed in accordance with[sections 64, 93 and 155(1) of that Act F133 ].

Textual Amendments

F131 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.1(3)for1979—80et seq. SeeFinance Act 1974 s.47andSch.10 para.5(2)—includesCapital Gains Tax Act 1979 ss.15and17as they have effect in relation to development gains by virtue ofFinance Act 1974 Sch.8 paras.2and3.

F132 SeeFinance Act 1974 s.47andSch.10 para.5(2)—includes development gains and tax in respect thereof.

F133 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para. 8for1979—80et seq.

PART IV U.K. ASSESSMENT AND CLAIMS F134

Textual Amendments

F134 See alsoIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s.252—assessments to rectify excessive set-off etc. of advance corporation tax or tax credit.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C7 Pt. 4 (ss. 29-43B) applied (with modifications) (6.4.1993) by The Income Tax (Sub-contractors in the Construction Industry) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/743), reg. 14(2) (revoked (6.4.2007) by S.I. 2005/2045, Sch. 2)

29 Assessing procedure. [1964(M) s.5(1) 9; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 6(1), 17(1), 27(1); 1967 Sch.XI 10(3).] U.K.

(1) Except as otherwise provided, all assessments to tax shall be made by an inspector, and—

(a) if the inspector is satisfied that any return under the Taxes Acts affords correct and complete information concerning profits in respect of which tax is chargeable, he shall make an assessment accordingly,

(b) if it appears to the inspector that there are any profits in respect of which tax is chargeable and which have not been included in a return under Part II of this Act, or if the inspector is dissatisfied with any return under Part II of this Act, he may make an assessment to tax to the best of his judgment F135 .

[(c) Where income tax is charged for a year of assessment in respect of income arising in that year, the inspector may make an assessment during that year to the best of his judgement, by reference to actual income or estimated income (whether from any particular source or generally) or partly by reference to one and partly by reference to the other F136 ].

[(1A) Where an assessment is made by virtue of subsection (1)(c) above, any necessary adjustments shall be made after the end of the year (whether by way of assessment, repayment of tax or otherwise) to secure that tax is charged in respect of income actually arising in the year F137 .]

[(2) Assessments under [sections 426to 430of the principal ActF138 ]shall be made by the inspector or the BoardF139 .]

M12 (3) If an inspector or the Board discover—

(a) that any profits which ought to have been assessed to tax have not been assessed, or

(b) that an assessment to tax is or has become insufficient, or

(c) that any relief which has been given is or has become excessive,

the inspector or, as the case may be, the Board may make an assessment in the amount, or the further amount, which ought in his or their opinion to be charged. F140

M13 (4) All income tax . . . F141 which is charged for any year on any person under subsection (3)(c) above may, notwithstanding that it was chargeable under more than one Schedule, be included in one assessment and an appeal against an assessment under subsection (3)(c) above shall be to the Commissioners to whom an appeal would lie on a claim for the relief in connection with which the assessment is made.

M14 (5) Notice of any assessment to tax shall be served on the person assessed and shall state [the date on which it is issued and F142 ] the time within which any appeal against the assessment may be made F143 .

M15 (6) After the notice of assessment hasbeen served on the person assessed, the assessment shall not be altered except in accordance with the express provisions of the Taxes Acts.

M16 (7) Assessments to income tax . . . F141 which are under any provision in the Income Tax Acts to be made by the Board shall be made in accordance with this section, and as if in subsection (1)(a) and (b) above the references to the inspector were references to the Board.

M17 (8) In this section “profits”—

(a) in relation to income tax, means income,

(b) in relation to capital gains tax, means chargeable gains,

(c) in relation to corporation tax, means profits as computed for the purposes of that tax,

M18 [(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F144

and “return under Part II of this Act”F145 includes a return under that Part as extended by section [284(4) F146 ] of the principal Act (returns of income of husband and wife).

Textual Amendments

F135 SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s.205—formal assessments underSch.Eunnecessary in certain cases.

F136 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 119(2)

F137 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 119(3).For previous (1A) (DLT)see 1987edition.

F138 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F139 Finance Act 1972 s.111andSch.24 para.6for1973—74et seq.Repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part Vin relation to accounting periods beginning after 31March 1989.

F140 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 588(5)—assessment under s. 29(3)to recover relief for costs of training where the time limit conditions in s. 589are subsequently not met. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para 7(3)(a)—application of (c) to sums claimed under s. 266(5)(b)to which the claimant was not entitled.Finance Act 1989 s. 57(3)application of (c) to medical insurance relief.

F141 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37and38andSch.14 Part II.

F142 Words added byFinance (No. 2) Act 1975 s.44(5)for notices of assessment issued after31July1975.

F143 See alsoIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss.285to286—notice to wife or her executors, etc., to pay outstanding tax assessed on her husband and attributable to her income.

F144 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.2. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.]

F145 Words repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148and Sch. 14 Part VIIIfor 1990-91and subsequent years.

F146 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para 32.

Marginal Citations

M12 1964 (M) s.(3)

M13 1964 (M) s.5(4).

M14 1964 (M) s.5(5).

M15 1964 (M) s.5(6).

M16 1964 (M) s.5(7).

M17 1964(M) s.5; 1965 Sch.X1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 27(1).

M18 1964 (M) s.5(9).

30 [Recovery of overpayment of tax, etc. U.K.

(1) Where an amount of tax has been repaid to any person which ought not to have been repaid to him, that amount of tax may be assessed and recovered as if it were unpaid tax F147 .

[(1A) Subsection (1) above shall not apply where the amount of tax which has been repaid is assessable under section 29 of this Act F148 .]

(2) In any case where—

(a) a repayment of tax has been increased in accordance with section [824 or 825 of the principal Act or section 47 F149 ] of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1975 (supplements added to repayments of tax, etc.); and

(b) the whole or any part of that repayment has been paid to any person but ought not to have been paid to him; and

(c) that repayment ought not to have been increased either at all or to any extent;

then the amount of the repayment assessed under subsection (1) above may include an amount equal to the amount by which the repayment ought not to have been increased.

(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F150

(3) In any case where—

(a) a payment, other than a repayment of tax to which subsection (2) above applies, is increased in accordance with section [824 or 825 of the principal Act or section 47 F149 ] of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1975; and

(b) that payment ought not to have been increased either at all or to any extent;

then an amount equal to the amount by which the payment ought not to have been increased may be assessed and recovered as if it were unpaid income tax or corporation tax.

(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F150

(4) An assessment to income tax or corporation tax under this section shall be made under Case VI of Schedule D F150 .

(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F150

(5) An assessment under this section shall not be out of time under section 34 of this Act if it is made before the end of the chargeable period following that in which the amount so assessed was repaid or paid as the case may be.

(6) Subsection (5) above is without prejudice to [section 36 F151 ] of this Act.

(7) In this section any reference to an amount repaid or paid includes a reference to an amount allowed by way of set-off F152 .] F153

Textual Amendments

F147 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 812 to 813—appliction of s.30 to the recovery of tax credits incorrectly paid.S.I. 1987 No. 1749 (in Part III Vol 5) regn. 11—s. 30to apply to payments by the Board of amounts paid under S.I. 1987 No. 1749to which scheme administrators were not entitled or recoverable from scheme administrators under S.I. 1987 No. 1749 regns. 7(5), 8(4)or (6)or 10as if they were income tax repaid to scheme administrators to which they were not entitled.

F148 Finance Act 1990 s. 105in relation to amounts of tax repaid on or after 26July 1990.

F149 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para 32.

F150 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 88(1)and Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 Para. 10(3)for the wording to be inserted in respect of accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

F151 Finance Act 1989 s. 149(3)(a)but not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods before 1April 1983.Previously

“sections 36, 37 and 39”.

F152 Finance Act 1982 s.149in relation to any amount repaid or paid on or after6April1982.

F153 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para 7(3)(b)—application of s. 30to sums claimed under s. 266(5)(b)to which the claimant was not entitled.Finance Act 1989 s. 57(3)—application of s. 30to medical insurance relief.Personal Pension Schemes (Relief at Source) Regns. 1988 (S.I. 1988 No. 1013)in Part III Vol. 5)— s. 30to apply to payments under regn. 13.Personal Pension Schemes (Min. Contributions under the Social Security Act 1986) Regns. 1988 (S.I. 1988 No. 1012) (in Part III Vol. 5)—s. 30to apply to payments under regn. 6.Private Medical Insurance (Disentitlement to Tax Relief and Approved Benefits) Regns. 1989 (S.I. 1989 No. 2389) regn. 5 (in Part III Vol. 5)—application of s. 30to recovery of tax from person who ceases to be entitled to relief.

31 Right of appeal. [1969 Sch.XX 12.] U.K.

(1) An appeal may be brought against an assessment to tax by a notice of appeal in writing given within thirty days after the date of the notice of assessment F154 .

(2) The notice of appeal shall be given to the inspector or other officer of the Board by whom the notice of assessment was given.

M19 [(3) The appeal shall be to the Special Commissioners if the assessment is made—

(a) by the Board; or

(b) under section 350, 426 F155 , 445, 740, 743(1) or 747(4)(a) of the principal Act; or

(c) under section 38 of the Finance Act 1973 or section 830 of the Principal Act and is not an assessment to tax under Schedule E;

or if the appeal involves any question as to the application of [any of sections 660 to 685 and 695 to 702 F156 ] of the principal Act F157 ].

[(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F158

(4) Subject to subsection (3) above the appeal shall be to the General Commissioners, except that the appellant may elect (in accordance with section 46(1) of this Act) to bring the appeal before the Special Commissioners instead of the General Commissioners.

(5) The notice of appeal against any assessment shall specify the grounds of appeal, but on the hearing of the appeal the Commissioners may allow the appellant to put forward any ground not specified in the notice, and take it into consideration if satisfied that the omission was not wilful or unreasonable.

[(5A) An election under subsection (4) above shall be disregarded if—

(a) the appellant and the inspector or other officer of the Board agree in writing, at any time before the determination of the appeal, that it is to be disregarded; or

(b) the General Commissioners have given a direction under subsection (5C) below and have not revoked it.

(5B) At any time before the determination of an appeal in respect of which an election has been made under subsection (4) above, the inspector or other officer of the Board after giving notice to the appellant may refer the election to the General Commissioners.

(5C) On any such reference the Commissioners shall, unless they are satisfied that the appellant has arguments to present or evidence to adduce on the merits of the appeal, direct that the election be disregarded.

(5D) If, at any time after the giving of a direction under subsection (5C) above (but before the determination of the appeal) the General Commissioners are satisfied that the appellant has arguments to present or evidence to adduce on the merits of the appeal, they shall revoke the direction.

(5E) Any decision to give a direction under subsection (5C) above or revoke such a direction under subsection (5D) above shall be final F159 .] F160

(6) This section has effect subject to any express provision in the Taxes Acts, including in particular any provision under which an appeal lies to the Special Commissioners to the exclusion of the General Commissioners, any provision transferring jurisdiction to some other tribunal, and any provision making one kind of assessment conclusive in an appeal against another kind of assessment. F161

Textual Amendments

F154 SeeFinance (No. 2) Act 1975 s.67(1)— “For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that in section 31(1) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (right of appeal) the reference to the date of the notice of assessment is a reference to the date on which the notice was issued”.

F155 “426”

repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part Vin relation to accounting periods beginning after 31March 1989.

F156 Finance Act 1990 s. 89and Sch. 14 para. 14 (correction of errors)—deemed to have been made by Taxes Act 1988.Previously

“Part XV or XVI”.

F157 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 32.See 1987edition for previous wording.

F158 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.3. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.]

F159 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.3(1)on and after1January1985.by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C. 45).

F160 See—Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para 5(2)—application of subsections (5)to (5E)to appeal by underwriter against inspector's determination.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 134—General Commissioners for Northern Ireland.

F161 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 8(2)—individual underwriters determinations.

Marginal Citations

M19 1964 (M) Sch. IV.

Relief for excessive assessments U.K.

32 Double assessment. [1952 s.65; 1964(M) Sch.II, IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1969 Sch.XX 17(2).] [1964(M) Sch.II.] U.K.

(1) If on a claim made to the Board it appears to their satisfaction that a person has been assessed to tax more than once for the same cause and for the same chargeable period . . . F162 , they shall direct the whole, or such part of any assessment as appears to be an overcharge, to be vacated, and thereupon the same shall be vacated accordingly.

(2) An appeal on a claim under this section shall lie to any of the bodies of Commissioners having jurisdiction to hear an appeal against the assessment, or the later of the assessments, to which the claim relates F163 .

Textual Amendments

F162 Words relating to development land tax added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.4. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F163 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18for the application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

33 Error or mistake. [1952, ss.66(1), 229(5); 1964(M) Sch.II, IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XII 5(2); 1966 Sch.VI 5(1), 27(1); 1969 Sch.XX 17(3).] [1952 s.66(2).] U.K.

(1) If any person who has paid tax charged under an assessment alleges that the assessment was excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return, he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment F164 (or, if the assessment is to corporation tax, the end of the accounting period) in F165 which the assessment was made, make a claim to the Board for relief F166 .

(2) On receiving the claim the Board shall inquire into the matter and shall, subject to the provisions of this section, give by way of repayment such relief . . . F167 in respect of the error or mistake as is reasonable and just:

Provided that no relief shall be given under this section in respect of an error or mistake as to the basis on which the liability of the claimant ought to have been computed where the return was in fact made on the basis or in accordance with the practice generally prevailing at the time when the return was made F166 .

M20 (3) In determining the claim the Board shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances of the case, and in particular shall consider whether the granting of relief would result in the exclusion from charge to tax of any part of the profits of the claimant, and for this purpose the Board may take into consideration the liability of the claimant and assessments made on F165 him in respect of chargeable periods other than that to which the claim relates F166 .

M21 (4) If any appeal is brought from the decision of the Boardon the claim the Special Commissioners shall hear and determine the appeal in accordance with the principles to be followed by the Board in determining claims under this section; and neither the appellant nor the Board shall be entitled to require a case to be stated under section 56 of this Act otherwise than on a point of law arising in connection with the computation of profits F166 .

[(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F168

M22 (5) In this section“profits”—

(a) in relation to income tax, means income,

(b) in relation to capital gains tax, means chargeable gains,

(c) in relation to corporation tax, means profits as computed for the purposes of that tax.

[(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F168 F169 F165

Textual Amendments

F164 For modification in relation to Lloyd's Underwriters seeS.I. 1974 No. 896 regn.4(1) (inPart III Vol.5)

F165 For modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty seeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts.

F166 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18for the application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits. S.I. 1989 No. 421, Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)for modification in relation to Lloyd's underwriters for 1986-87.S.I. 1990 no. 627, regn. 3(2)and Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)for modification in relation to Lloyd's underwriters for 1987-88.

F167 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37and38andSch.14 Part II.

F168 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.5 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.]

F169 See Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18for the application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C8 S. 33(1) modified (19.4.1991) for the assessment year 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 9, Sch. 2

C9 S. 33(1) modified (28.3.1992) for the year of assessment 1989 - 90 by S.I. 1992/511, reg. 9, Sch.2

C10 S. 33(1) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1993 with effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 only) by S.I. 1993/415, regs. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2

Marginal Citations

M20 1952

s.66(3).

M21 1964

(M) Sch.IV

M22 1952

s.66; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 27(1).

Time limits F170 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F170 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss.34 to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.

34 Ordinary time limit of six years. [1952 ss.47(1)(3), 229(3); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.V1 7.] U.K.

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, and to any other provisions of the Taxes Acts allowing a longer period in any particular class of case, an assessment to tax may be made at any time not later than six years after the end of the chargeable period F171 F172 to which the assessment relates . . . F173 F174 .

(2) An objection to the making of any assessment on the ground that the time limit for making it has expired shall only be made on an appeal against the assessment.

Textual Amendments

F171 For modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty seeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts.

F172 For modification see S.I. 1974 No. 896 regn.4(2) (inPart III Vol.5) regn. 4(2)in relation to Lloyd's Underwriters.

F173 Words relating to development land tax added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.6. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F174 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (c. 10, SIF 63:1) ss.278(6)and279(5)—adjustments when company ceases to be a member of a group.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (c. 10, SIF 63:1) s.280(6)—adjustments consequential on depreciatory transaction within a group of companies.Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss. 34to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (no. 2) Act 1987 s. 84Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 12—assessments to corporation tax consequential on determination of accounting period. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 41(1)—rent etc., received after lost rent relief allowed. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 67(7)and (8)—adjustments in respect of sources of income chargeable to income tax under Sch. D Case III, IVor V,which are disposed of or cease to yield income. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 108—receipts accruing after discontinuance of trade, etc. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 448and 806—adjustments in respect of double taxation relief. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 455(4)—assessments in respect of sums paid into special reserve funds by underwriters who have died. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 488—adjustments on revocation of direction under that section (co-operative housing associations). Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 535—assessments consequential on claims under that section (copyright sold after ten years). Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss. 569and 572—repayment of amounts paid under schemes for rationalizing industry or statutory redundancy schemes. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 584(2)—adjustments in respect of overseas profits ceasing to be unremittable. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 585—adjustments in respect of delayed remittances of overseas income. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 700—adjustments on completion of administration of deceased person's estate. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 703—cancellation of tax advantages from certain transactions in securities. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 781—cancellation of certain reliefs for payments under leases of plant, etc.Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 1(8), (9)—withdrawal of initial allowance where investment grant made.S.I. 1956 No. 1230 (in Part III Vol. 5) regns.18and21—adjustments in respect of purchased life annuities.S.I. 1989 No. 421, Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)modifications for underwriters for 1986-87.S.I. 1990 No. 627, regn. 3(2)and Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)—modification for underwriters for 1987-88.Transport Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2 c.46) s.42(2)—adjustments of capital allowances in consequence of directions under s.40(3) of that Act.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C11 S. 34 excluded (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 248(2), 289 (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))

S. 34 modified (16.7.1992) by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), Sch. 3 para. 6E (which was inserted (16.7.1992 having effect in relation to transactions effected on or after 1.10.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 63, Sch. 11 paras. 2(2), 6)

C12 S. 34(1) applied (with modification) (19.4.1991) for the assessment year 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 3(2), Sch. 1

S. 34(1) extended (with modifications) (28.3.1992) for the year of assessment 1989-90 by S.I. 1992/511, regs. 1,3, Sch. 1

C13 S. 34(1) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1993 with effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 only) by S.I. 1993/415, regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch.1

35 Emoluments received after year for which they are assessable.[1961 s.28(2)(3); 1964(M) Sch.IV.] U.K.

(1) Where income to which this section applies is received in a year of assessment subsequent to that for which it is assessable, assessments to income tax as respects that income may be made at any time within six years after the year of assessment in which it was received. F175

(2) The income to which this section applies is any income which is chargeable to tax under Schedule E, but which is not taken into account in an assessment to income tax for the year of assessment in which it is received; and for the purposes of this section—

(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F176

(b) any payment chargeable to tax by virtue of section [148 F177 ] of the principal Act (payments on retirement or loss of office or employment) shall notwithstanding anything in subsection (4) of that section (notional date of payment) be treated as having been received at the time it was actually received.

Textual Amendments

F175 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss.34 to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.

F176 S. 35(2)(a)repealed byFinance Act 1976 Schs.9 para.10and15 Part IIIin relation to income assessable for1977—78and subsequent years.

F177 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

36 [Fraudulent or negligent conduct. U.K.

(1) An assessment on any person (in this section referred to as “the person in default”) for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax attributable to his fraudulent or negligent conduct or the fraudulent or negligent conduct of a person acting on his behalf may be made at any time not later than twenty years after the end of the chargeable period to which the assessment relates.

(2) Where the person in default is an individual who carried on a trade or profession in partnership with another individual, or with other persons at least one of whom is an individual, at any time in the year for which the assessment is made, an assessment in respect of the profits or gains of the trade or profession for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above may be made not only on the person in default but also on his partner or, as the case may be, on any of his partners who is an individual.

(3) If the person on whom the assessment is made so requires, in determining the amount of the tax to be charged for any chargeable period in any assessment made for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above, effect shall be given to any relief or allowance to which he would have been entitled for that chargeable period on a claim or application made within the time allowed by the Taxes Acts F178 .]

[(4) Any act or omission such as is mentioned in section 98B below on the part of a grouping (as defined in that section) or member of a grouping shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) above to be the act or omission of each member of the grouping F179 .] F180

Textual Amendments

F178 Finance Act 1989 s. 149(1)but shall not affect making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before1April 1983.Previously

“Fraud or wilful default.36. Subject to section 41 below, where any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed by or on behalf of any person in connection with or in relation to tax, assessments on that person to tax may, for the purpose of making good to the Crown any loss of tax attributable to the fraud or wilful default, be made at any time(a)”

(a)

See Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.119andSch.4 para.3(1)—not applicable to tax for years before1936—37.

F179 Finance Act 1990 s. 69and Sch. 11 para. 4(1)on and after 1July 1989.

F180 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 13—application of s. 36to assessments to advance corporation tax. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 16—application of s. 36to assessments to income tax on company payments which are not distributions. Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 9—underwriter's agent.S.I. 1987 No. 530 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 11(2)—application of ss. 36and 37to assessments in relation to non-resident entertainers and sportsmen.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C14 S. 36(1) applied (with modifications) (19.4.1991) for the year of assessment 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 3(2), Sch. 1

37 Neglect: income tax and capital gains tax. [1960 s.51; 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) Where, for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to the fraud, wilful default or neglect of any person, an assessment for any year (in this section referred to as “the normal year”) has been made on him not later than six years after the end of that year F181 , assessments to tax for earlier years may, to the extent provided by the following provisions of this section, be made on him notwithstanding that, but for this section, they would be out of time F182 .

(2) No assessment under this section shall be made on any person except for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax attributable to his neglect.

(3) An assessment under this section for any year ending not earlier than six years before the end of the normal year may, subject to section 41 below, be made at any time not later than the end of the year of assessment following that in which the tax covered by the assessment mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is finally determined.

(4) An assessment under this section for any year ending earlier than six years before the end of the normal year may only be made with the leave of the General or Special Commissioners, given under the following provisions of this section.

(5) Where an assessment for any year (in this section referred to as “the earlier year”) has been made on any person more than six years after the end of that year—

(a) under this section, or

(b) (in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (6) below) under section 36 above,

and it appears to the General or Special Commissioners, on an application made to them not later than the end of the year of assessment following that in which the tax covered by the assessment for the earlier year is finally determined, that there are reasonable grounds for believing that tax for a year ending not earlier than six years before the end of the earlier year was or may have been lost to the Crown owing to the neglect of that person, they may give leave for the making on him of an assessment under this section for that year.

(6) The circumstances referred to in subsection (5)(b) above are that the assessment for the earlier year was one of a number of assessments made on that person for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above and that of the years for which those assessments were made—

(a) the latest, apart from the normal year, ended not more than six years before the end of the normal year,

(b) the next, if any, ended not more than six years before the end of the said latest year,

and so on for any earlier years.

(7) An application for leave under this section may be made by the inspector or the Board, and on any such application the person to be assessed shall be entitled to appear and be heard.

(8) In determining the amount of the tax to be charged for any year in any assessment made under this section effect shall be given, if the person to be assessed so requires, to any relief or allowance to which he would have been entitled for that year on a claim or application made within the time allowed by the Taxes Acts.

M23 (9) In this section and section 38 below “tax” does not include corporation tax, and this section shall apply separately to income tax and to capital gains tax, so that the making of an assessment to one of those taxes shall not affect the time allowed for the making of an assessment to the other tax.

F183 (10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F184

Textual Amendments

F181 SeeS.I. 1974 No. 896 regn. 4(2) (in Part IIIVol.5)and S.I. 1989 No. 421, Schedule,for modification in relation to Lloyd's Underwriters.

F182 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s.84(7)—nothing in ss. 34to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (no. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 16—application of s. 37to assessments to income tax on company payments which are not distributions.S.I. 1987 No. 530 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 11(2)—application of ss. 36and 37to assessments in relation to non-resident entertainers and sportsmen.S.I. 1990 No. 627, regn. 3(2)and Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)—modification for underwriters for 1987-88.

F183 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 149(2), 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIbut not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.And see—Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 35and Sch. 3—married couples—para. 29re time limits for assessments.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 9—underwriter's agent.

F184 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.7. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C15 S. 37(1) applied (with modifications)(19.4.1991) for the year of assessment 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 3(2), Sch. 1

Marginal Citations

M23 1969

Sch.XX 19(4).

37A [Effect of assessment where allowances transferred. U.K.

Where an assessment is made on any person for the purpose of making good a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to [fraudulent or negligent conduct F185 ], the fact that the person’s total income for any year of assessment is assessed as greater than it was previously taken to be shall not affect the validity of any deduction made from the total income of the person’s spouse by virtue of section 257B, 257D or 265 of the principal Act; and where any such deduction has been made in such a case, the total amount which the first-mentioned person is entitled to deduct from total income for the year in question shall be correspondingly reduced F186 .]

Textual Amendments

F185 Finance Act 1989 s. 149(4)(a)(i)but not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.Previously

“fraud, wilful default or neglect”.

F186 Finance Act 1988 s. 35and Sch. 3 para. 30for 1990-91and subsequent years.

38 Modification of s.37 in relation to partnerships. [1960 s.52.] U.K.

(1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect where such an assessment to tax as is mentioned in section 37(1) above was made on any person who at any time carried on a trade, profession or vocation in partnership with any other person (whether the assessment was made in respect of the profits or gains thereof or not).

F187 (2) In this section—

• “the business” means the trade, profession or vocation mentioned in subsection (1) of this section,

• “the normal year” has the same meaning as in section 37 above,

• “the person in default” means the person mentioned in section 37(1) above.

(3) Subject to subsection (5) F188 of this section, an assessment in respect of the profits or gains of the business may be made under section 37 above not only on the person in default but on any person who carried on the business at any time in the year for which the assessment is made and either—

(a) then carried it on in partnership with the person in default or with a person who at any time in the normal year carried it on in partnership with the person in default; or

(b) at any time in the normal year carried on the business in partnership with the person in default;

and may be made fo r the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax attributable to the neglect of any person who carried on the business at any time in the year for which the assessment is made.

(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F189

(4) For the purpose of determining whether leave may be given for the making of such an assessment on two or more persons who carried on the business in partnership subsections (5) and (6) of section 37 above shall have effect as if the neglect referred to therein were the neglect of any of those persons and as if the assessments referred to therein were assessments made on any one of those persons.

(5) Where such an assessment is made on two or more persons who carried on the business in partnership and those persons include any person (in this subsection referred to as “the exempted partner”) who was not charged in any such assessment as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, the tax charged in the assessment—

(a) shall not include tax on so much of the profits or gains as would fall to be included in the exempted partner’s total income; and

(b) shall not be recoverable from the exempted partner;

and where a person who was not charged as aforesaid carried on the business otherwise than in partnership no such assessment shall be made on him.F190

Textual Amendments

F187 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss. 34to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.

F188 Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.8and restored to the original byFinance Act 1985 s.93(7)andSch.25 para.4.

F189 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.8. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F190 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 149(2), 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIbut not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.

39 Neglect: corporation tax. [1966 Sch.VI 9(1)—(9).] U.K.

(1) Where, for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to the fraud, wilful default or neglect of any person, an assessment to corporation tax for any accounting period (in this section referred to as “the normal accounting period”) has been made on him not later than six years after the end of that accounting period, assessments to corporation tax, income tax and the profits tax for earlier accounting periods, years of assessment and chargeable accounting periods may, to the extent provided by the following provisions of this section, be made on him notwithstanding that, but for this section, they would be out of time F191 .

(2) No assessment under this section shall be made on any person except for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax attributable to his neglect.

(3) An assessment under this section for any accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period ending not earlier than six years before the end of the normal accounting period may, subject to section 41 below, be made at any time not later than one year after the time when the tax covered by the assessment mentioned in subsection (1) above is finally determined.

(4) An assessment under this section for any accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period ending earlier than six years before the end of the normal accounting period may only be made with the leave of the General or Special Commissioners, given under the following provisions of this section.

(5) Where an assessment for any accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period (in this section referred to as “the earlier period”) has been made on any person more than six years after the end of that period—

(a) under this section, or

(b) (in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (6) below) under section 36 above,

and it appears to the General or Special Commissioners, on an application made to them not later than one year after the tax covered by the assessment for the earlier period is finally determined, that there are reasonable grounds for believing that tax for an accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period ending not earlier than six years before the end of the earlier period was or may have been lost to the Crown owing to the neglect of that person, they may give leave for the making on him of an assessment under this section for that accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period.

(6) The circumstances referred to in subsection (5)(b) above are that the assessment for the earlier period was one of a number of assessments made on that person for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above and that of the accounting periods, years of assessment and chargeable accounting periods for which those assessments were made—

(a) the latest, apart from the normal accounting period, ended not more than six years before the end of the normal accounting period,

(b) the next, if any, ended not more than six years before the end of the said latest accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period,

and so on for any earlier accounting periods, years of assessment or chargeable accounting periods.

(7) An application for leave under subsection (5) above may be made by the inspector or the Board, and on any such application the person to be assessed shall be entitled to appear and be heard.

(8) In determining the amount of the tax to be charged for any accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period in any assessment made under this section effect shall be given, if the person to be assessed so requires, to any relief or allowance to which he would have been entitled for that accounting period, year of assessment or chargeable accounting period on a claim or application made within the time allowed by the Taxes Acts or the enactments relating to the profits tax, as the case may be.

(9) For the purposes of this section the year 1965—66 and any earlier year of assessment, and any chargeable accounting period, is to be regarded as earlier than any corporation tax accounting period.

M24 (10) For the purpose of making assessments to income tax for the year 1965—66 and earlier years of assessment, section 38 above shall apply in relation to this section as it applies in relation to section 37 above, but as if references in the said section 38 to the normal year were references to the normal accounting period, and with any other necessary modifications.F192

Textual Amendments

F191 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss. 34 to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 13—application of s. 39to assessments to advance corporation tax.

F192 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 149(2), 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIbut not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.

Marginal Citations

M24 1966

Sch.VI 10

40 Assessment on personal representatives. [1952 s.47(2); 1961 s.28(2); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] [1960 s.53; 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) For the purpose of the charge of tax on the executors or administrators of a deceased person in respect of the income, or chargeable gains, which arose or accrued to him before his death, the time allowed by section 34, 35 or 36 above shall in no case extend beyond the end of the third year next following the year of assessment F193 in which the deceased died F194 .

(2) Subject to section 41 below F195 , for the purpose of making good to the Crown any loss of tax attributable to the [fraudulent or negligent conduct F196 ] of a person who has died, an assessment on his personal representatives to tax for any year of assessment ending not earlier than six years before his death may be made at any time before the end of the third year next following the year of assessment F193 in which he died.

(3) In this section F197 “tax” means income tax or capital gains tax F198 .

[(4) Any act or omission such as is mentioned in section 98B below, on the part of a grouping (as defined in that section) or member of a grouping shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (2) above to be the act or omission of each member of the grouping F199 .] F200

Textual Amendments

F193 See—S.I. 1984 No. 896 regn. 4(2) (in Part III Vol.5) regn. 4(2)and S.I. 1989 No. 421, Schedulemodification in relation to Underwriters.S.I. 1990 No. 627, regn. 3(2)and Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)—modification in relation to underwriters in 1987-88.

F194 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(7)—nothing in ss. 34 to 40applies to assessments made under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84.

F195 Words repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part VIII.

F196 Finance Act 1989 s. 149 para. (4)(a)(ii)but not to affect making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.Previously

“fraud, wilful default or neglect”.

F197 Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.9and restored to the original byFinance Act 1985 s.93(7)andSch.25 para.5.

F198 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 9mdash;underwriter's agent.

F199 Finance Act 1990 s. 69and Sch. 11 para. 4(2)on and after 1July 1989.

F200 Development land tax provisions were added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.9Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C16 S. 40 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 173, Sch. 19 Pt. I para.8

C17 S. 40(1)(2) applied (with modifications)(19.4.1991) for the year of assessment 1988-1989 by S. I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 3(2), Sch. 1

S. 40(1)(2) extended (with modifications) (28.3.1992) for the year of assessment 1989-90 by S.I. 1992/511, regs. 1,3, Sch. 1

C18 S. 40(1)(2) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1993 with effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 only) by S.I. 1993/415, regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch.1

41 Leave of General or Special Commissioners required for certain assessments. [1964(M) s.6; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 8(1), 9(3).] U.K.

(1) An assessment to tax made by virtue of—

(a) section 36 of this Act, or

(b) so far as they relate to an assessment for a period ending not earlier than six years before the end of the normal year or normal accounting period, section 37, 38 or 39 of this Act, or

(c) section 40(2) of this Act,

may only be made with the leave of a General or Special Commissioner given on being satisfied by an inspector or other officer of the Board that there are reasonable grounds for believing that tax has or may have been lost to the Crown owing to the fraud or wilful default or neglect of any person.

(2) The General or Special Commissioner giving leave to make such an assessment shall take no part in the proceedings, and shall not be present, when any appeal against the assessment is heard or determined F201 F202 .

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F203

Textual Amendments

F201 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 9—underwriter's agent.

F202 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 149(2), 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIbut not to affect making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1April 1983.

F203 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.10. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

41A, 41B, 41C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F204 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F204 See Finance Act 1990 s. 95for insertion of ss. 41A, 41B and 41C (corporation tax determinations)in relation to accounting periods ending after the appointed day (see Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 10);and see Finance Act 1990 s. 96 (consequential group relief adjustments)and Finance Act 1990 s. 102and Sch. 16 (claims for capital allowances).

Claims U.K.

42 Procedure for making claims. [1964(M) s.9(2)(4), Sch.II.] [1964(M) s.9(5).] U.K.

(1) Where any provision of the Taxes Acts provides for relief to be given, or any other thing to be done, on the making of a claim, this section shall, unless otherwise provided, have effect in relation to the claim F205 .

(2) Subject to any provision in the Taxes Acts for a claim to be made to the Board, every claim shall be made to an inspector.

(3) An appeal may be brought against the decision of the inspector or the Board on a claim by giving written notice to the inspector or the Board as the case may be within thirty days of receipt of written notice of that decision:

Provided that the time for appealing against the Board’s decision—

(a) under section [278 F206 ] of the principal Act (personal reliefs for non-residents), or

(b) on a question of residence, ordinary residence or domicile, or

(c) in the case of a claim under [subsection 5 of section 614 F206 ] of the principal Act (pension funds for service abroad) on the question whether a fund is one to which [section 615(3) of that Act F206 ] applies,shall be three months from receipt of notice of their decision.

(4) Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect as respects the Commissioners to whom an appeal lies under this section.

M25 (5) A claim shall be in such form as the Board may determine and the form of claim—

(a) shall provide for a declaration to the effect that all the particulars given in the form are correctly stated to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person making the claim, and

(b) may require—

(i) a return of profits to be made in support of the claim, and

(ii) any such particulars of assets acquired as may be required in a return by virtue of subsections (2) and (3) of section 12 of this Act F207 ,

and, in the case of a claim made by or on behalf of a person who is not resident, or who claims to be not resident or not ordinarily resident or not domiciled, in the United Kingdom, the inspector or the Board may require a statement or declaration in support of the claim to be made by affidavit. F208

(5A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F208

M26 (6) A claim may be made on behalf of an incapacitated person by his trustee, guardian, tutor or curator; and a person who under Part VIII of this Act has been charged with tax on the profits of another person may make any such claim for relief by discharge or repayment of that tax F209 .

M27 (7) The inspector or the Boardmay give effect to any claim by discharge of tax or, on proof to the satisfaction of the inspector or the Board that any tax has been paid by the claimant by deduction or otherwise, by repayment of tax F210 .

(8) Where a claim has been made and the claimant subsequently discovers that an error or mistake has been made in the claim, the claimant may make a supplementary claim within the time allowed for making the original claim.

(9) On an appeal on a claim, the Commissioners may vary the decision appealed against whether or not the variation is to the advantage of the appellant.

(10) Where it is necessary, in order to give effect to a claim, or as a result of allowing a claim, to make any adjustment by way of an assessment on any person, the assessment shall not be out of time if it is made within one year of the final determination of the claim.

For the purposes of this subsection, a claim shall not be deemed to be finally determined until the amount recoverable under the claim can no longer be varied, whether by any Commissioners on appeal or by the order of any court.

(10A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F208

M28 (11) In this section“profits”—

(a) in relation to income tax, means income,

(b) in relation to capital gains tax, means chargeable gains,

(c) in relation to corporation tax, means profits as computed for the purposes of that tax.

(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F211 F212

Textual Amendments

F205 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9 SIF 63:1) s.119andSch.4 para.4—application ofs.42to claims under repealed provisions.Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application ofs.(1)to(5)and(7)to(9)to the special tax on banking depositsIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 489(7)—s. 42not to apply to certain claims by self-build societies.Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 17(3)—s. 42to apply to claims to carry back balancing allowances in respect of mining structures etc. Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 140(3)—s. 42not to apply to certain claims for capital allowances for income tax purposes. Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 145(3)—s. 42 to apply to certain claims for capital allowances for corporation tax purposes where relief given by discharge or repayment of tax. Finance Act 1990 s. 100and Sch. 15—s. 42 not to apply for claims for group relief under Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 17Afor accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed (See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 10). Finance Act 1990 s. 102and Sch. 16—s. 42 not to apply to claims for capital allowances made under Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. A1and falling to be made for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed (see Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 10).Income Tax (Sub-Contractors in the Construction Industry) Regns. 1975 (S.I. 1975 No. 1960) (inPart III Vol.5) regn. 13(2)—application ofs.42to appeals against decisions on claims underregn. 13. Income Tax (Interest Relief) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982 No. 1236) (inPart III Vol.5) regn. 14(1)—s.42not applicable to claims under these regulations. Personal Equity Plan Regns. 1986 (S.I. 1986 No. 1948)(in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 26(1)—s. 42not to apply to claims under S.I. 1986 No. 1948. Income Tax (Entertainers and Sportsmen) Regns. 1987 (S.I. 1987 No. 530) (in Part III Vol. 5) Regn. 13—application of s. 42to claims that excessive tax payments made in relation to non-resident entertainers and sportsmen. Occupational Pension Schemes (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regns. 1987 (S.I. 1987 No. 1749) (in Part III Vol. 5) Regn. 9—s. 42not to apply to claims under S.I. 1987 No. 1749.

F206 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F207 SeeCapital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.45—returns as respects chargeable gains accruing to a married woman.

F208 See Finance Act 1990 s. 97(3), (5)for changes in relation to claims relating to income of accounting periods ending after the appointed day (see Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 10)

F209 SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 231—payment of tax credit on dividends etc.

F210 SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 824—repayment supplements.

F211 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.11. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F212 S. 42not to apply to claims under S.I. 1989 No. 469—personal equity plan regulations.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C19 S. 42 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1993/743, reg. 20(3)

C20 S. 42 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 194(4)

Marginal Citations

M25 1964,1965

1964(M) s.9(6); 1965 Sch.X 6.

M26 1964

(M) s.9(7).

M27 1964

(M) s.9(8)-(11).

M28 1964(M)s.9; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch. VI 11(1),27(1).

43 Time limit for making claims. [1952 s.507; 1964(M) Sch.IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 11(2).] [1964(M) Sch.IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) Subject to any provision of the Taxes Acts prescribing a longer or shorter period F213 , no claim for relief under the Taxes Acts shall be allowed unless it is made within six years from the end of the chargeable period F214 to which it relates . . . F215 F216 .

(2) A claim (including a supplementary claim) which could not have been allowed but for the making of an assessment to income tax or capital gains tax after the year of assessment to which the claim relates may be made at any time before the end of the year of assessment following that in which the assessment was made.

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F217

Textual Amendments

F213 As to longer time limits, see—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (c. 10, SIF 63:1) s.280(6)—adjustments consequential on depreciatory transaction within a group of companies.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 36—adjustment of charge on sale of land with right to reconveyance. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 62—commencing provisions for income tax under Sch. D Cases Iand II.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 67—sources of income chargeable to income tax underSch. D Case III, IVor Vwhich are disposed of or cease to yield income. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 419(4)—adjustments of assessments on close companies to tax on loans to participators and to shortfall tax.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss. 448and 806—double taxation relief. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 534—relief for copyright royalties, etc.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 585—relief on delayed remittances of overseas income. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 619—consequential adjustments of relief for retirement annuity premiums.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 700—adjustments on completion of administration of deceased person's estate. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 781(7)—adjustments on cancellation of certain reliefs for payments under leases of plant etc.S.I. 1956 No. 1230 regn.21 (inPart III Vol.5)regn. 21—adjustments in respect of certain purchased life annuities.

F214 See—S.I. 1974 No. 896 regn. 4(2) (inPart III Vol.5)and S.I. 1989 No. 421, Schedulefor modification in relation to Lloyd's Underwriters.S.I. 1990 No. 627, regn. 3(2)and Schedule (in Part III Vol. 5)—modification for underwriters for 1987-88.

F215 Words relating to development land tax added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.12.Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F216 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of s.43(1) to the special tax on banking deposits.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 26application ofs.43to a claim for relief underSch. 26where the chargeable profits of a controlled foreign company are apportioned to a company resident in the UK.

F217 S. 43(3) added by Development Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch. 8 para. 12. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed by Finance Act 1985 (c.54), s. 98(6), Sch. 27 Part X.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C21 S. 43 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 194(4)

C22 S. 43(1) modified (19.4.1991) for the year of assessment 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 9, Sch. 2

S. 43(1) modified (28.3.1992) for the year of assessment 1989-90 by S.I. 1992/511, reg. 9, Sch.2

C23 S. 43(1) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1993 with effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 only) by S.I. 1993/415, regs. 1(1), 9, Sch.2

43A [Further assessments: claims etc. U.K.

(1) This section applies where—

(a) by virtue of section 29(3) of this Act an assessment is made on any person for a chargeable period, and

(b) the assessment is not made for the purpose of making good to the Crown any loss of tax attributable to his fraudulent or negligent conduct or the fraudulent or negligent conduct of a person acting on his behalf.

(2) Without prejudice to section 43(2) above but subject to section 43B below, where this section applies—

(a) any relevant claim, election, application or notice which could have been made or given within the time allowed by the Taxes Acts may be made or given at any time within one year from the end of the chargeable period in which the assessment is made, and

(b) any relevant claim, election, application or notice previously made or given may at any such time be revoked or varied—

(i) in the same manner as it was made or given, and

(ii) by or with the consent of the same person or persons who made, gave or consented to it (or, in the case of any such person who has died, by or with the consent of his personal representatives),

except where by virtue of any enactment it is irrevocable.

(3) For the purposes of this section and section 43B below, a claim, election, application or notice is relevant in relation to an assessment for a chargeable period if—

(a) it relates to that chargeable period or is made or given by reference to an event occurring in that chargeable period, and

(b) it or, as the case may be, its revocation or variation has or could have the effect of reducing any of the liabilities mentioned in subsection (4) below.

(4) The liabilities referred to in subsection (3) above are—

(a) the increased liability to tax resulting from the assessment,

(b) any other liablity to tax of the person concerned for—

(i) the chargeable period to which the assessment relates, or

(ii) any chargeable period which follows that chargeable period and ends not later than one year after the end of the chargeable period in which the assessment was made.

(5) Where a claim, election, application or notice is made given, revoked or varied by virtue of subsection (2) above, all such adjustments shall be made, whether by way of discharge or repayment of tax or the making of assessments or otherwise, as are required to take account of the effect of the taking of that action on any person’s liability to tax for any chargeable period.

(6) The provisions of this Act relating to appeals against decisions on claims shall apply with any necessary modifications to a decision on the revocation or variation of a claim by virtue of subsection (2) above F218 .]

Textual Amendments

F218 Finance Act 1989 s. 150(1)for any assessment notice of which is issued on or after 27July 1989.

43B [Limits on application of section 43A. U.K.

(1) If the effect of the exercise by any person of a power conferred by section 43A(2) above—

(a) to make or give a claim, election, application or notice, or

(b) to revoke or vary a claim, election, application or notice previously made or given,

would be to alter the liability to tax of another person, that power may not be exercised except with the consent in writing of that other person, or where he has died, his personal representatives.

(2) Where—

(a) a power conferred by subsection (2) of section 43A above is exercised in consequence of an assessment made on a person, and

(b) the exercise of the power increases the liability to tax of another person,

that section shall not apply by reason of any assessment made because of that increased liability.

(3) In any case where—

(a) one or more relevant claims, elections, applications or notices are made, given, revoked or varied by virtue of the application of section 43A above in the case of an assessment, and

(b) the total of the reductions in liability to tax which, apart from this subsection, would result from the action mentioned in paragraph (a) above would exceed the additional liability to tax resulting from the assessment,

the excess shall not be available to reduce any liability to tax.

(4) Where subsection (3) above has the effect of limiting either the reduction in a person’s liability to tax for more than one period or the reduction in the liability to tax of more than one person, the limited amount shall be apportioned between the periods or persons concerned—

(a) except where paragraph (b) below applies, in such manner as may be specified by the inspector by notice in writing to the person or persons concerned, or

(b) where the person concerned gives (or the persons concerned jointly give) notice in writing to the inspector within the relevant period, in such manner as may be specified in the notice given by the person or persons concerned.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) above the relevant period is the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which a notice under paragraph (a) of that subsection is given to the person concerned or, where more than one person is concerned, the latest date on which such notice is given to any of them F219 .]

Textual Amendments

F219 Finance Act 1989 s. 150(1)for any assessment notice of which is issued on or after 27July 1989.

PART V U.K. APPEALS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS F220

Textual Amendments

F220 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 248(3)—Application of Part Vto appeals concerning election under s. 247 (dividends paid by one member of a group to another).Finance Act 1990 s. 47(8)—appeals against matters arising from part disposals of unit trusts etc. held by a transferor insurance company to be heard by Special Commissioners.Social Security Act 1975 Sch. 2 para. 9 (in Part II Vol. 5)—collection of Class 4 contributions with income tax.Income Tax (Sub-Contractors in the Construction Industry) Regns. 1975 (S.I. 1975 No. 1960) regn. 12(3) (inPart III Vol.5)—Part Vapplied, with modifications, to applications underregn. 12(2)Income Tax (Interest Relief) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982 No. 1236) (inPart III Vol.5) regn. 14(5)—applicationof Part Vto appeals under regn.14(3).Personal Equity Plan Regns. 1986 (S.I. 1986 No. 1948) (in Part III Vol. 5) regns. 18(3)and 26(5)mdash;Part Vto apply to appeals against withdrawal of Board's approval of plan managers, and against Board's decisions on annual claims for relief in relation to personal equity plans.Occupational Pension Schemes (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regns. 1987 (S.I. 1987 No. 1749) (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 9(5)—Part Vto apply to appeals under S.I. 1987 No. 1749 regn. 9(3).Personal Pension Schemes (Provisional Approval) Regns. 1987 (S.I. 1987 No. 1765) (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 6(4)—Part Vto apply to appeals under S.I. 1987 No. 1765.Personal Pension Schemes (Relief at Source) Regns. 1988 (S.I. 1988 No. 1013) (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 11(5)—Part Vto apply to appeals under regn. 11(3).Private Medical Insurance (Tax Relief) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989 No. 2387) (in Part III Vol. 5) regns. 14and 17 Part Vto apply to appeals.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C24 Part V (ss. 44 - 59) applied (30.1.1992) by S.I. 1992/10, reg. 10(3) and by S.I. 1992/12, reg. 10(3)

C25 Part V (ss. 44 - 59) applied (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 15(3), 173(4), Sch. 2 para.8 (with s. 108(5))

C26 Part V (ss. 44 - 59) applied (with modifications) (6.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/743, reg. 14(2)(4)

C27 Part V (ss. 44 - 59) applied (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.11(10)

Jurisdiction U.K.

44 General Commissioners. [1964(M) s.11; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch. VI 12 (1)(2).] U.K.

(1) Proceedings before the General Commissioners under the Taxes Acts shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be brought before the General Commissioners for the division in which the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act is situated.

[(1A) Subject to subsections (1B) and (2) below, the Board may direct that, notwithstanding the said rules, proceedings before the General Commissioners under the Taxes Acts of any description specified in the direction shall be brought before the General Commissioners for the division so specified in relation to proceedings of that description.

(1B) A direction under subsection (1A) above shall have effect subject to the provisions referred to in the last paragraph of Schedule 3 to this Act and shall not apply to any proceedings if—

(a) the inspector has not served on the other party a notice stating the effect of the direction in relation to those proceedings;

(b) that party has served on the inspector, within thirty days of the service of the inspector’s notice, a notice objecting to the direction so applying; or

(c) in the case of an appeal, that party has elected under rule 3 or 5 of the said rules for the place where he ordinarily resides F221 .]

[(2) Where—

(a) the parties to any proceedings under the Taxes Acts which are to be heard by any General Commissioners have agreed, whether before or after the institution of the proceedings, that the proceedings shall be brought before the General Commissioners for a division specified in the agreement; and

(b) in the case of an agreement made before the time of the institution of the proceedings, neither party has determined that agreement by a notice served on the other party before that time,

the proceedings shall be brought before the General Commissioners for the division so specified, notwithstanding the said rules and any direction under subsection (1A) above F222 .]

(3) In any case in which proceedings under the Taxes Acts may be brought at the election of any person before the Special Commissioners instead of before the General Commissioners, the Commissioners before whom the proceedings are to be brought or have been brought may, if they think fit, on an application made by the parties, arrange with the other Commissioners concerned for the transfer of the proceedings to those other Commissioners; and the proceedings may be so transferred notwithstanding that the election has been exercised, or that the time for exercising the election has expired without its being exercised.

[(3A) Where in any case (including one in which proceedings may be brought as mentioned in subsection (3) above)—

(a) an appeal has been brought before the General Commissioners: and

(b) those Commissioners consider that, because of the complexity of the appeal or the length of time likely to be required for hearing it, the appeal should be brought before the Special Commissioners;

the General Commissioners may, with the agreement of the Special Commissioners, and having considered any representations made to them by the parties, arrange for the transfer of the proceedings to the Special Commissioners F223 .]

(4) No determination of any Ge+neral Commissioners under the Taxes Acts shall be questioned, whether by a case stated under section 56 of this Act or otherwise, on the ground that this section did not authorise those General Commissioners to make the determination, except by a party by whom or on whose behalf an objection to the jurisdiction was made to those General Commissioners before or in the course of the proceedings leading to the determination.

M29 (5) Anything to be done by the General Commissioners may, save as otherwise expressly provided by the Taxes Acts, be done by any two or more General Commissioners F224 .

Textual Amendments

F221 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 133(1), (3)in relation to proceedings instituted on or after 1st January 1989.

F222 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 133(2), (3)in relation to proceedings instituted on or after 29th July 1988. Previously

“ (2) The parties to any proceedings under the Taxes Acts which are to be heard by any General Commissioners may if they think fit agree that, notwithstanding the said rules, the proceedings shall be brought before the General Commissioners for the division specified in the agreement, but an inspector or the Board shall not enter into any such agreement unless satisfied that the Commissioners concerned would be likely to see no objection to the agreement(a)”.

(a)

SeeIncome Tax (Employment) Regns. 1973 (S.I. 1973 No. 334) regn. 10(3) (inPart III Vol.5)—application ofs.44(2)to an appeal against coding.

F223 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.5on and after1January1985by virtue of S.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C. 45). (not reproduced).

F224 See—Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 134(7)—General Commissioners for Northern Ireland.Income Tax (Employment) Regns. 1973 (S.I. 1973 No. 334) regn. 48(3) (inPart III Vol.5)—appeal against assessment underSch.E.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C28 S. 44(2) applied (6.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/744, reg. 11(4)

Marginal Citations

M29 1952

S.12(1)

45 Quorum of Special Commissioners. [1967 s.43.] U.K.

(1) Anything to be done under any Act (including, except where otherwise expressly provided, any Act passed after this Act) by, to or before the Special Commissioners [shall, except in any case where the Presiding Special Commissioner directs otherwise F225 ] be done by, to or before a single Special Commissioner,or any two or more Special Commissioners F226 ; and this section applies not only for the purposes of the Taxes Acts but also for the purposes of any other affairs under the care and management of the Board.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, proceedings shall not by virtue of this section be brought before a single Special Commissioner unless—

(a) the party, or the parties, to the proceedings, other than the Board or any officer of the Board, have given their consent, and

(b) a Special Commissioner so directs on being satisfied that the direction will avoid undue delay in the hearing of those or any other proceedings F226 .

(3) Proceedings brought [, in accordance with a direction of the Presiding Special Commissioner F227 ] before two or more Special Commissioners may be continued and determined by any one or more of them if the parties to the proceedings have given their consent, and if the continuing Special Commissioner or Commissioners, after such consultation as is practicable with any Special Commissioner retiring from the proceedings, is or are satisfied that to do so will avoid undue delay in the hearing of those or any other proceedings.

(4) If the notice to the appellant of the setting down for hearing of an appeal to the Special Commissioners states that it is intended that the appeal should be heard by a single Special Commissioner and draws attention to the provisions of this section, the appeal may be so heard without compliance with the requirements of subsection(2)above, but if, in the course of the hearing of the appeal or at any earlier time, the Special Commissioner to whom the appeal is assigned is satisfied that the appellant has arguments to present or evidence to adduce on the merits of the appeal, the case shall thereafter be treated as one which cannot be brought before a single Special Commissioner unless the requirements of subsection(2) above are fulfilled.

(5) Nothing in subsection(1)of this section shall authorise a single Special Commissioner to entertain proceedings under section100of this Act (penalties), and subsection(3)of this section shall not apply to proceedings under that section.

(6) No determination of a Special Commissioner shall be questioned, whether by a case stated or otherwise, on the ground that this section did not authorise the Special Commissioner to make the determination, except by a party by whom or on whose behalf an objection to the jurisdiction was made to the Special Commissioner before or in the course of the proceedings leading to the determination F228 .

Textual Amendments

F225 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.2from1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).Previously

“may”.

F226 Repealed byFinance Act 1984 ss.127, 128(6)andSchs.22 para.2and23 Part XIIIon and after1January1985by virtue of S.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).

F227 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.2from1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).

F228 Subsections (2)and(4)to(6)repealed byFinance Act 1984 ss.127, 128(6)andSchs.22 para.2and23 Part XIIIon and after1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).

46 General and Special Commissioners. [1964(M) s.12(2); 1965 Sch.XI(1); 1966 Sch.VI 12(1).] U.K.

(1) A right to elect to bring an appeal or other proceedings under the Taxes Acts before the Special Commissioners instead of before the General Commissioners shall be exercised by notice combined (in the case of an appeal) with the notice of appeal, or by a separate notice in writing to the inspector or other officer of the Board within the time limited for bringing the proceedings, and if no such notice of election is given the appeal or other proceedings shall be brought before the General Commissioners. F229

M30 (2) Save as otherwise provided in the Taxes Acts, the determination of the General Commissioners or the Special Commissioners in any proceedings under the Taxes Acts shall be final and conclusive.

Textual Amendments

F229 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 5(2)—appeal by underwriter's agent against inspector's determination.

Marginal Citations

M30 1964(M) s.12(4); 1965 Sch.X1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 12(1).

Valid from 16/07/1992

[F230 46A Regulations about jurisdiction. U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may, with the consent of the Lord Advocate, make regulations—

(a) providing for appeals or other proceedings under the Taxes Acts to be determined in certain circumstances by the Special Commissioners instead of the General Commissioners or by the General Commissioners instead of the Special Commissioners;

(b) providing for appeals or other proceedings under the Taxes Acts that would otherwise be determined by the General Commissioners for one division to be determined in certain circumstances by the General Commissioners for another division;

(c) as to the number of General Commissioners or Special Commissioners required or permitted to hear, or perform other functions in relation to, appeals or other proceedings under the Taxes Acts.

(2) The regulations may—

(a) make different provision for different cases or different circumstances, and

(b) contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential and transitional provision as the Lord Chancellor thinks appropriate.

(3) Provision made by virtue of subsection (1) or (2) above may include provision amending this or any other Act or any instrument made under an Act.

(4) Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]

Textual Amendments

F230 S. 46A inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para.3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C29 S. 46A applied (with modifications) (16.7.1992) by Inheritance Act 1984 (c. 51), s. 225A(1) (which was inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para.8)

47 Special jurisdiction relating to tax on chargeable gains. [1965 s.44(6)(7)(8).] U.K.

(1) If and so far as the question in dispute on any appeal against an assessment to tax (whether capital gains tax or corporation tax) on chargeable gains, or against a decision on a claim under [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F231 ] is a question of the value of any land, or of a lease of land then—

(a) if the land is in England or Wales the question shall be determined on a reference to the Lands Tribunal, and

(b) if the land is in Northern Ireland the question shall be determined on a reference to the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland.

(2) In relation to land and leases of land in Scotland for any reference to the Lands Tribunal in subsection (1) above there shall be substituted a reference to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F232

M31 (3) If and so far as any appeal mentioned in subsection(1) above involves the question of the value of any shares or securities in a company resident in the United Kingdom, other than shares or securities dealt in on a stock exchange in the United Kingdom, that question shall be determined [by the Special Commissioners F233 ], and those Commissioners shall hear and determine the question in the same way as an appeal.

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F234

Textual Amendments

F231 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 s.157(2)andSch.7 para.8for1979—80et seq.

F232 Proviso repealed (as spent) byFinance Act 1974 s.57(6)andSch.14 Part VII.SeeS.I. 1971 No.215—Lands Tribunal Act 1949 ss.1to4brought into force in Scotland on1March1971.

F233 Finance Act 1975 s.54(1).See1975 s.54(2)as to transfer of proceedings pending at the passing of that Act(13March1975).

F234 Repealed byCapital Gains Tax Act 1979 s.158andSch.8for1979—80et seq.

Marginal Citations

M31 1969

Sch.XX 22(2).

47A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F235 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F235 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.13Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

47B [Special jurisdiction relating to Business Expansion Scheme. U.K.

If and so far as the question in dispute on any appeal against the refusal of relief under [Chapter III of Part VII of the principal Act F236 ] (relief for investment in corporate trades), or against an assessment withdrawing any such relief, is a question of the value of an interest in land (within the meaning of [Section 294(5) of that Act F236 ], it shall be determined—

(a) if the land is in England and Wales, on a reference to the Lands Tribunal;

(b) if the land is in Scotland, on a reference to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland; and

(c) if the land is in Northern Ireland, on a reference to the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland F237 .]

Textual Amendments

F236 Income and Corporation taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F237 Finance Act 1986 s. 40(3)and Sch. 9 para. 22in relation to shares issued at any time after 18 March 1986.

Proceedings before Commissioners U.K.

48 Application to appeals and other proceedings. [1964(M) s.12(1)(5); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 12(1); 1969 Sch.XX 17(43).] U.K.

(1) In the following provisions of this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “appeal” means any appeal to the General Commissioners or to the Special Commissioners under the Taxes Acts ,

• “the Commissioners” means the General Commissioners or the Special Commissioners as the case may be.

(2) The following provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to—

(a) appeals other than appeals against assessments, and

(b) proceedings which under the Taxes Acts are to be heard and determined in the same way as an appeal,

subject [to any necessary modifications, including (except in the case of applications under section 55 below) the omission of section 56(9) below F238 ] .

Textual Amendments

F238 Finance (No.2) Act 1975 s.45(4)in relation to notices issued after31July1975.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C30 See Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s.1, Sch.2 para.1(1), the Oil Taxation Acts, for modification regarding petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

C31 S. 48 applied by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s.134, Sch.17 para.18 (special tax on banking deposits).

49 Proceedings brought out of time. [1964(M) s.12(1)(2).] U.K.

(1) An appeal may be brought out of time if on an application for the purpose an inspector or the Board is satisfied that there was a reasonable excuse for not bringing the appeal within the time limited, and that the application was made thereafter without unreasonable delay, and gives consent in writing; and the inspector or the Board, if not satisfied, shall refer the application for determination by the Commissioners .

(2) If there is a right to elect to bring the appeal before the Special Commissioners instead of before the General Commissioners, the Commissioners to whom an application under this section is to be referred shall be the General Commissioners unless the election has been exercised before the application is so referred.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C32 S. 49(1) applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

S. 49(1) applied by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch. 17 para. 18 (special tax on banking deposits).

50 Procedure. [1952 s.52(1).] U.K.

(1) The Commissioners shall cause notice of the day for hearing appeals to be given to every appellant, and shall meet together for the hearing of appeals from time to time, with or without adjournment until all appeals have been determined.

M32 (2) Notice of appeal meetings to be held by the Commissionersshall also be given to the inspector by the clerk to the Commissioners, except that in proceedings to which the Board, or an officer of the Board other than an inspector, are parties, the notice shall be given to the Board or to that officer.

M33 (3) Any officer of the Board may attend everyappeal, and shall be entitled—

(a) to be present during all the time of the hearing and at the determination of the appeal, and

(b) to give reasons in support of the assessment or other decision against which the appeal is made.

M34 (4) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that owing to absence, sickness or other reasonable cause any person has been prevented from attending at the hearing of an appeal on the day fixed for that purpose, they may postpone the hearing of his appeal for such reasonable time as they think necessary, or may admit the appeal to be made by any agent, clerk or servant on his behalf.

M35 (5) Upon any appeal the Commissioners shall permit any barrister or solicitor to plead before them on behalf of any party to the appeal, either orally or in writing, and shall hear any accountant, that is to say, any person who has been admitted a member of an incorporated society of accountants:

Provided that on an appeal against an assessment under Schedule B the Commissioners shall permit any agent appointed by the appellant to plead before them on his behalf.

F239 M36 (6) If, on an appeal, it appears to the majority of the Commissioners present at the hearing, by examination of the appellant on oath or affirmation, or by other lawful evidence, that the appellant is overcharged by any assessment, the assessment shall be reduced accordingly, but otherwise every such assessment shall stand good F240 .

(7) If on any appeal it appears to the Commissioners that the person assessed ought to be charged in an amount exceeding the amount contained in the assessment, the assessment shall be increased accordingly. F240

[(8) Where, on an appeal against an assessment which—

(a) assesses an amount which is chargeable to tax, and

(b) charges tax on the amount assessed,

it appears to the Commissioners as mentioned in subsection (6) or (7) above, they may, unless the circumstances of the case otherwise require, reduce or, as the case may be, increase only the amount assessed; and where any appeal is so determined the tax charged by the assessment shall be taken to have been reduced or increased accordingly F241 .] F240 F242 F243

Textual Amendments

F239 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148and Sch. 14 Part Vwith effect from 6 April 1988.

F240 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84(6)—s. 50(6)to (8)not apply to assessments under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84in relation to penalties incurred under Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s. 94after a day to be appointed.

F241 Finance (No. 2) Act 1975 s.67(2)in relation to all years except that judgments in any court given in proceedings commenced before29April1975are not to be affected.

F242 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1),theOil Taxation Acts,regarding modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F243 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application ofss.50, 51to the special tax on banking deposits.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 10(3)—underwriters.

Marginal Citations

M32 1952,1964

1952 s.52(2);1964(M) s.12(6).

M33 1952,1964

1952 s.52(2); 1964(M) Sch.IV.

M34 1952

s.52(3).

M35 1952 s.52(4); 1969 Sch.XX 13(5).

M36 1952 s.52(5); 1964(M) Sch.IV.

51 Power of Commissioners to obtain information from appellant. [1964(M) s.12(3).] U.K.

(1) The Commissioners may at any time before the determination of an appeal give notice to the appellant or other party to the proceedings (not being an inspector or the Board) requiring him within the time specified in the notice—

(a) to deliver to them such particulars as they may require for the purpose of determining the appeal, and

(b) to make available for inspection by them, or by any officer of the Board, all such books, accounts or other documents in his possession or power as may be specified or described in the notice, being books, accounts or other documents which, in the opinion of the Commissioners issuing the notice, contain or may contain information relating to the subject matter of the proceedings.

(2) Any officer of the Board may, at all reasonable times, inspect and take copies of, or extracts from, any particulars delivered under subsection (1)(a) above; and the Commissioners or any officer of the Board may take copies of, or extracts from, any books, accounts, or other documents made available for their or his inspection under subsection (1)(b) above. F244

Textual Amendments

F244 See Finance Act 1981 s. 134and Sch. 17 para. 18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

52 Evidence. [1969 Sch.XX 12(1)(2)(3).] U.K.

(1) Any party to an appeal shall be entitled to adduce any lawful evidence.

(2) The Commissioners may summon any person (other than the appellant) to appear before them and give evidence, and a witness before the Commissioners may be examined on oath:

Provided that any agent or servant of the appellant, and any other person confidentially employed in the affairs of the appellant, may refuse to be sworn or to answer any question to which he objects.

M37 (3) A person who after being duly summoned—

(a) neglects or refuses to appear before the Commissioners at the time and place appointed for that purpose, or

(b) appears, but refuses to be sworn, or

(c) refuses to answer any lawful question concerning the matters under consideration,

shall incur a penalty not exceeding £50:

Provided that the penalty imposed in respect of any offence under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of this subsection shall not apply to any such person as is within the proviso to subsection (2) above F245 .

Textual Amendments

F245 See Finance Act 1981 s. 134and Sch. 17 para. 18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

Marginal Citations

M37 1952 s. 59(3); 1960 s.59(4); 1969 Sch. XX 13(4).

53 Summary award of penalties. [1960 s.59(1)(2)(3); 1964(M) s.12(3).] U.K.

(1) Any penalty incurred by any person for a failure to comply with a notice under section 51 above, or incurred by any person under section 52 above, may be [determined F246 ] summarily by the Commissioners notwithstanding that no proceedings [under section 100C of this Act F246 ] have been commenced, and accordingly [section 98 of this Act shall have effect, in relation to a penalty so awarded, as if subsection (3) were omittedand the reference in subsection (1)(ii) to the Commissioners before whom proceedings for the penalty have been commenced were a reference to the Commissioners by whom the penalty has been awardedF247 F248 ].

(2) An appeal shall lie to the High Court F249 or, in Scotland, the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from the [determination F250 ] of any penalty under this section, and on any such appeal the court may either confirm or reverse the [determination F250 ] of the Commissioners or reduce or increase the sum [determined F250 ].

(3) Any penalty [determined F251 ] by virtue of this section shall for all purposes be treated as if it were tax charged in an assessment and due and payable F252 .

Textual Amendments

F246 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(3)(a).Previously

“awarded”

and

“for its recovery”

respectively.

F247 Finance Act 1972 s.129,except in relation to penalties awarded before commencement of that Act(27July1972).

F248 Words repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIin relation to failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989.

F249 SeeR.S.C. Ord.91, (S.I. 1965 No. 1776under

“appeal tribunals: Supreme Court, Rules of”

inPart III Vol.5) r. 5as to procedure in the High Court in England and Wales.

F250 Finance Act 1989 s. 168 (3)(b).Previously

“award”, “decision”

and

“awarded”

respectively.

F251 Finance Act 1989 s. 168 (3)(c).Previously

“awarded”.

F252 See Finance Act 1981 s. 134and Sch. 17 para. 18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

54 Settling of appeals by agreement. [1952 s.510; 1958 Sch.VI 5; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 12(4).] U.K.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where a person gives notice of appeal and, before the appeal is determined by the Commissioners, the inspector or other proper officer of the Crown and the appellant come to an agreement, whether in writing or otherwise, that the assessment or decision under appeal should be treated as upheld without variation, or as varied in a particular manner or as discharged or cancelled, the like consequences shall ensue for all purposes as would have ensued if, at the time when the agreement was come to, the Commissioners had determined the appeal and had upheld the assessment or decision without variation, had varied it in that manner or had discharged or cancelled it, as the case may be.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply where, within thirty days from the date when the agreement was come to, the appellant gives notice in writing to the inspector or other proper officer of the Crown that he desires to repudiate or resile from the agreement.

(3) Where an agreement is not in writing—

(a) the preceeding provisions of this section shall not apply unless the fact that an agreement was come to, and the terms agreed, are confirmed by notice in writing given by the inspector or other proper officer of the Crown to the appellant or by the appellant to the inspector or other proper officer; and

(b) the references in the said preceding provisions to the time when the agreement was come to shall be construed as references to the time of the giving of the said notice of confirmation.

(4) Where—

(a) a person who has given a notice of appeal notifies the inspector or other proper officer of the Crown, whether orally or in writing, that he desires not to proceed with the appeal; and

(b) thirty days have elapsed since the giving of the notification without the inspector or other proper officer giving to the appellant notice in writing indicating that he is unwilling that the appeal should be treated as withdrawn,

the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if, at the date of the appellant’s notification, the appellant and the inspector or other proper officer had come to an agreement, orally or in writing, as the case may be, that the assessment or decision under appeal should be upheld without variation.

(5) The references in this section to an agreement being come to with an appellant and the giving of notice or notification to or by an appellant include references to an agreement being come to with, and the giving of notice or notification to or by, a person acting on behalf of the appellant in relation to the appeal .

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C33 See—Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s.134, Sch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits. Finance Act 1982(c. 39), s.156, Sch.21 para.4(1)—application of s.54 to the tribunal under Finance Act 1970 s.463 in relation to functions transferred by s.156. Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51), s. 84(7)—nothing in s. 55 applies to appeals against assessments under Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 84. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), s. 705(7)—agreement as to operation of s. 703 advance corporation tax taken into account in tax avoidance counteraction notice) requires agreement of all companies concerned.

55 [Recovery of tax not postponed. U.K.

(1) This section applies to an appeal to the Commissioners against—

(a) an assessment to income tax under Schedule A, Schedule C or Schedule D,

(b) an assessment charging income tax at a rate other than the basic rate on income from which income tax has been deducted (otherwise than under section [203 F253 ] of the principal Act) or from or on which income tax is treated as having been deducted or paid or income chargeable under Schedule F,

(c) an assessment to income tax made under [Schedule 16 to the principal Act F253 ] (income tax on company payments) other than an assessment charging tax the time for the payment of which is given by paragraph 4(1) or 9 of that Schedule,

(d) an assessment to capital gains tax,

(e) an assessment to corporation tax other than an assessment made under [Schedule 13 to the principal Act F253 ] (advance corporation tax) charging tax the time for the payment of which is given by paragraph 3(1) or 9 of that Schedule.

(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F254

[(g) a notice under subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 753 of the principal Act where, before the appeal is determined, the appellant is assessed to tax under section 747(4)(a) of that Act by reference to an amount of chargeable profits specified in that notice F255 .] F256

(2) [Except as otherwise provided by the following provisions of this section F257 ], the tax charged by the assessment shall be due and payable as if [there had been no appeal F258 .]

(3) If the appellant has grounds for believing that he is overcharged to tax by the assessment, he may, by notice in writing given to the inspector within thirty days after the date of the issue of the notice of assessment, apply to the Commissioners for a determination of the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed pending the determination of the appeal .

A notice of application under this subsection shall state the amount in which the appellant believes that he is overcharged to tax and his grounds for that belief.

[(3A) An application under subsection (3) above may be made more than thirty days after the date of the issue of the notice of assessment if there is a change in the circumstances of the case as a result of which the appellant has grounds for believing that he is over-charged to tax by the assessment F259 .]

(4) If, after any determination of the amount of tax the payment of which should be so postponed, there is a change in the circumstances of the case as a result of which either party has grounds for believing that the amount so determined has become excessive or, as the case may be, insufficient, he may, by notice in writing given to the other party at any time before the determination of the appeal, apply to the Commissioners for a further determination of that amount .

A notice of application under this subsection shall state the amount in which the applicant believes that the amount previously determined has become excessive or, as the case may be, insufficient and his grounds for that belief.

(5) An application under subsection (3) or (4) above shall be heard and determined in the same way as the appeal; and where any such application is heard and determined by any Commissioners, that shall not preclude them from hearing and determining the appeal or any application or further application under subsection (4) above.

(6) The amount of tax the payment of which shall be postponed pending the determination of the appeal shall be the amount (if any) in which it appears to the Commissioners, having regard to the representations made and any lawful evidence adduced, that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the appellant is overcharged to tax; and—

[(a) in the case of a determination made on an application under subsection (3) above, other than an application made by virtue of subsection (3A) above, the date on which any tax the payment of which is not so postponed is due and payable shall be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment notice of which was issued on the date of that determination and against which there had been no appeal; and

(b) in the case of a determination made on an application under subsection (4) above—

(i) the date on which any tax the payment of which ceases to be so postponed is due and payable shall be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment notice of which was issued on the date of that determination and against which there had been no appeal; and

(ii) any tax overpaid shall be repaid F260 .]

[(6A) Where an appeal is brought against an assessment to tax under section 747(4)(a) of the principal Act as well as against a notice under section 753(1) or (3) of that Act—

(a) an application under subsection (3) above may relate to matters arising on both appeals and, in determining the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed, the Commissioners shall consider the matters so arising together, and

(b) if the Commissioners have determined the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed solely in relation to one of the appeals, the bringing of the other appeal shall be taken to be a change of circumstances falling within subsection (4) above; and

(c) any reference in this section to the determination of the appeal shall be construed as a reference to the determination of the two appeals, but the determination of one before the other shall be taken to be a change of circumstances falling within subsection (4) above F261 .]

(7) If the appellant and [an inspector F262 ] come to an agreement, whether in writing or otherwise, as to the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed pending the determination of the appeal, the like consequences shall ensue as would have ensued if the Commissioners had made a determination to that effect under subsection (6) above on the date when the agreement was come to, but without prejudice to the making of a further agreement or of a further determination under that subsection.

(8) Where an agreement is not in writing—

(a) subsection (7) above shall not apply unless that fact that an agreement was come to, and the terms agreed, are confirmed by notice in writing given by the inspector to the appellant or by the appellant to the inspector, and

(b) the reference in that subsection to the time when the agreement was come to shall be construed as a reference to the time of the giving of the notice of confirmation.

[(9) On the determination of the appeal—

(a) the date on which any tax payable in accordance with that determination is due and payable shall, so far as it is tax the payment of which had been postponed, or which would not have been charged by the assessment if there had been no appeal, be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment—

(i) notice of which was issued on the date on which the inspector issues to the appellant a notice of the total amount payable in accordance with the determination, and

(ii) against which there had been no appeal; and

(b) any tax overpaid shall be repaid F263 .]

(10) In [subsection (3) above F264 ] “inspector” means the inspector or other officer of the Board by whom the notice of assessment was issued; and references in this section to an agreement being come to with an appellant and the giving of notice to or by an appellant include references to an agreement being come to with, and the giving of notice to or by, a person acting on behalf of the appellant in relation to the appeal.

(11) Section45(2)above shall not apply to an application under subsection(3)or(4)above; and F265 the transfer of proceedings under this Act from one body of Commissioners to another body of Commissioners shall not affect the validity of a determination under subsection (6) above F266 .] F267

Textual Amendments

F253 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F254 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.14Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F255 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 8(1).Previously

“(g) a notice under subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 88 of the Finance Act 1984 where, before the appeal is determined, the appellant is assessed to tax under section 82(4)(a) of that Act by reference to an amount of chargeable profits specified in that notice(a)”

(a)Finance Act 1984 s. 89(5)from 6 April 1984.

F256 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 paras.14(4), 15(2), 18—application ofs.55(1)to(10)to the special tax on banking deposits.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 375—assessments under subsection 3 to be regarded as if included among those specified in s. 55(1).Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para. 6(2)(a)—assessments under para. 6to be regarded as if they were included among those specified in s. 55(1). S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 33(3)—assessments under S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (personal equity plans)to be treated as assessments specified in s. 55(1). S.I. 1987 No. 352 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 6(6)—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1)to apply to assessments under S.I. 1987 No. 352 (pension scheme surpluses:administration) as if under s. 55(1) S.I. 1987 No. 530 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 14(2)—application of s. 51(1)to assessments in relation to non-resident entertainers and sportsmen.

F257 Finance Act 1982 (c. 39), s.68(1) in relation to notices of assessment issued after 30 July 1982

F258 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 156(2)(a) for tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30 July 1982

F259 Finance Act 1982 (c. 39), s.68(2)(3) in relation to notices of assessment issued after 30 July 1982

F260 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 156(2) in relation to tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30 July 1982

F261 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 8(2).

F262 Finance Act 1990 s. 104(2)(a), (4)where notice of appeal given on or after 26 July 1990. Previously

“the inspector”.

F263 Finance Act 1989 s. 156(2)(c)in relation to tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30 July 1982. Previously

“On the determination of the appeal—(a) any tax payable in accordance with that determination the payment of which had been postponed, or which had not been charged by the assessment, shall be due and payable as if it were tax charged by an assessment—(i) notice of which was issued on the date on which the inspector issues to the appellant a notice of the total amount payable in accordance with the determination, and(ii) in respect of which no appeal was pending, or(b) any tax overpaid shall be repaid, as the case may require.”

F264 Finance Act 1990 s. 104(2)(b),(4)where notice of appeal given on or after 26 July 1990. Previously

“this section”.

F265 Repealed byFinance Act 1984 s.128(6)andSch.23 Part XIIIon and after1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C. 45).

F266 S. 55 substituted by Finance (No.2) Act 1975 (c. 45), s. 45(1) in relation to appeals against assessments notices of which were issued after31July1975.

F267 See Finance Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 6for modification to s. 55in connection with underwriters; and para. 8(2) (effects of determinations).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C34 S. 55 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 173, Sch. 19 Pt. I para. 7(2)(a)

C35 S. 55(3)(4) modified by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), s. 10(5)

S. 55(3)(4) restricted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), s. 306(8)

C36 S. 55 modified by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), Sch. 27 para. 19(3)

56 Statement of case for opinion of the High Court. [1952 s.64(1); 1964(M) Sch.IV.] [1952 s.64(2); 1958 Sch.VI 5; 1964(M) Sch.IV.] U.K.

(1) Immediately after the determination of an appeal by the Commissioners, the appellant or the inspector or other officer of the Board, if dissatisfied with the determination as being erroneous in point of law, may declare his dissatisfaction to the Commissioners who heard the appeal.

(2) The appellant or the inspector or other officer of the Board, as the case may be, having declared his dissatisfaction, may, within thirty days after the determination, by notice in writing addressed to the clerk to the Commissioners, require the Commissioners to state and sign a case for the opinion of the High Court thereon. F268

M38 (3) The party requiring the case shall pay to the clerk to the Commissioners a fee of [£25 F269 ] for and in respect of the same, before he is entitled to have the case stated.

M39 (4) The case shall set forth the facts and the determination of the Commissioners, and the party requiring it shall transmit the case, when stated and signed, to the High Court, within thirty days after receiving the same. F270

M40 (5) At or before the time when he transmits the caseto the High Court, the party requiring it shall send notice in writing of the fact that the case has been stated on his application, together with a copy of the case, to the other party.

M41 (6) The High Court shall hear and determine any question or questions of law arising on the case, and shall reverse, affirm or amend the determination in respect of which the case has been stated, or shall remit the matter to the Commissioners with the opinion of the Court thereon, or may make such other order in relation to the matter as to the Court may seem fit.

M42 (7) The High Court may cause the case to be sent back for amendment, and thereupon the case shall be amended accordingly, and judgment shall be delivered after it has been amended.

M43 (8) An appeal shall lie from the decision of the High Court to the Court of Appeal and thence to the House of Lords:

Provided that—

(a) no appeal shall lie to the House of Lords from the Court of Appeal unless leave has been given under and in accordance with section 1 of the Administration of Justice (Appeals) Act 1934, and

M44 (b) this subsection has effect subject to Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 (appeal from High Court to House of Lords). F270

(9) Where the appeal is against an assessment, then notwithstanding that a case has been required to be stated or is pending before the High Court, tax shall be paid in accordance with the determination of the Commissioners who have been required to state the case:

Provided that, if the [amount charged by F271 ] the assessment is altered by the order or judgment of the High Court, then—

(a) if too much tax has been paid the amount overpaid shall be refunded with such interest, if any, as the High Court may allow F272 ; or

[(b) if too little tax has been charged, the amount undercharged shall be due and payable at the expiration of a period of thirty days beginning with the date on which the inspector . . . F273 issues to the other party a notice of the total amount payable in accordance with the order or judgment of that Court F274 ].

M45 (10) All matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court under this section shall be assigned in Scotland to the Court of Session sitting as the Court of Exchequer, and an appeal shall lie from the decision under this section of the Court of Session, as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to the House of Lords.

(11) This section has effect in Northern Ireland subject to section 58 below .

Textual Amendments

F268 See S.I. 1987 No. 1422 (in Part III Vol. 5)for modification in the case of referral direct to Court of Appeal.

F269 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.6on and after1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).Previously

“£1”.

F270 See S.I. 1987 No. 1422 (in Part III Vol. 5)for modification in the case of referral direct to Court of Appeal.

F271 Finance Act 1989 s. 156(3)in relation to tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30 July 1982. Previously “amount of”.

F272 SeeFinance (No.2) Act 1975 s.47(8)ands.48(7)repayment supplement not payable where Court may allow interest.

F273 Words relating to development land tax added by Development Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.15. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F274 Finance (No.2) Act 1975 s.45(3)in relation to appeals against assessments of which notices were issued after31July1975.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C37 S. 56 applied (6.4.1990) by The Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) (1987—88) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/627), regs. 1, 9

S. 56 applied (19.4.1991) by The Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) (1988–89) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/851), regs. 1, 7(4)

C38 S. 56 applied (28.3.1992) by The Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) (1989—90) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/511), reg. 7(4)

C39 S. 56 applied (6.4.1993) by The Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/744), reg. 11(6) (revoked (6.4.2004) by S.I. 2003/2682, Sch. 2)

C40 S. 56 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

S. 56 applied by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch. 17 para. 18 (special tax on banking deposits).

Marginal Citations

M38 1952

s.64(4).

M39 1952 s.64(4); 1958 Sch. VI 5.

M40 1952

s.64(5).

M41 1952

s.64(6)

M42 1952

s.64(7)

M43 1952

s.64(9).

M44 1952 s.64(10); 1964(M) s.12(5),Sch.IV

M45 1952

ss.64(9),522.

56A [Statement of case: Special Commissioners to Court of Appeal. U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may by order provide that—

(a) in such classes of appeal in England and Wales as may be prescribed by the order; and

(b) subject to the consent of the parties and to such other conditions as may be so prescribed;

a case stated by the Special Commissioners under section 56 above, for the opinion of the High Court, shall be referred to the Court of Appeal.

(2) An order under this section—

(a) may provide that section 56 above shall have effect, in relation to any appeal to which the order applies, with such modifications as may be specified in the order; and

(b) shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament F275 .]

Textual Amendments

F275 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.7on and after1January1985.by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).(not reproduced) (For orders see Part III Vol.5).

Valid from 16/07/1992

[F276 56B Regulations about practice and procedure. U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may, with the consent of the Lord Advocate, make regulations about the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with appeals.

(2) The regulations may in particular include provision—

(a) enabling the Commissioners to join as a party to an appeal a person who would not otherwise be a party;

(b) for requiring any party to an appeal to provide information and make documents available for inspection by the Commissioners or by officers of the Board;

(c) for requiring persons to attend the hearing of an appeal to give evidence and produce documents;

(d) as to evidence generally in relation to appeals;

(e) enabling the Commissioners to review their decisions;

(f) for the imposition of penalties not exceeding an amount specified in the regulations;

(g) for the determination and recovery of penalties (imposed by virtue of paragraph (f) above or any other enactment) and for appeals against penalties.

(3) The regulations may also include provision—

(a) authorising or requiring the Commissioners, in circumstances prescribed in the regulations, to state a case for the opinion of a court;

(b) for an appeal to lie to a court on a question of law arising from a decision of the Commissioners;

(c) as to the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with cases so stated or such appeals.

(4) The regulations may—

(a) make different provision for different cases or different circumstances, and

(b) contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential and transitional provision as the Lord Chancellor thinks appropriate.

(5) Provision made by virtue of any of subsections (1) to (4) above may include provision amending this or any other Act or any instrument made under an Act.

(6) Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]

Textual Amendments

F276 Ss. 56B-56D inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para.4

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C41 Ss. 56B-56D applied (16.7.1992) by Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51), s. 225A(2) (which was inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para.8)

Valid from 16/07/1992

56C F277 Power of Special Commissioners to order costs. U.K.

(1) Regulations made under section 56B above may include provision for—

(a) the award by the Special Commissioners of the costs of, or incidental to, appeal hearings before them,

(b) the recovery of costs so awarded, and

(c) appeals against such awards.

(2) Any provision made by virtue of subsection (1)(a) above shall provide that the Special Commissioners shall not award costs against a party to an appeal unless they consider that he has acted wholly unreasonably in connection with the hearing in question.

Textual Amendments

F277 Ss. 56B-56D inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para. 4.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C42 Ss. 56B-56D applied (16.7.1992) by Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51), s. 225A(2) (which was inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para. 8).

Valid from 16/07/1992

56D F278 Power of Special Commissioners to publish reports of decisions. U.K.

(1) Regulations made under section 56B above may include provision for the Special Commissioners to publish reports of such of their decisions as they consider appropriate.

(2) Any provision made by virtue of subsection (1) above shall provide that any report published, other than a report of an appeal that was heard in public, shall be in a form that so far as possible prevents the identification of any person whose affairs are dealt with in the report.

(3) No obligation of secrecy to which the Special Commissioners are subject (by virtue of this Act or otherwise) shall prevent their publishing reports of their decisions in accordance with any provision made by virtue of subsection (1) above.

Textual Amendments

F278 Ss. 56B-56D inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para.4.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C43 Ss. 56B-56D applied (16.7.1992) by Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51), s. 225A(2) (which was inserted (16.7.1992) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 16 para. 8).

Chargeable gains U.K.

57 Regulations about appeals. [1965 Sch.X 2(1).] U.K.

(1) The Board may make regulations—

(a) as respects the conduct of appeals against assessments and decisions on claims under [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F279 ],

(b) entitling persons, in addition to those who would be so entitled apart from the regulations, to appear on such appeals,

(c) regulating the time within which such appeals or claims may be brought or made,

(d) where the market value of an asset on a particular date, or an apportionment or any other matter, may affect the liability to capital gains tax F280 of two or more persons, enabling any such person to have the matter determined by the tribunal having jurisdiction to determine that matter if arising on an appeal against an assessment, and prescribing a procedure by which the matter is not determined differently on different occasions,

(e) authorising an inspector or other officer of the Board, notwithstanding the obligation as to secrecy imposed by virtue of this or any other Act, to disclose to a person entitled to appear on such an appeal the market value of an asset as determined by an assessment or decision on a claim, or to disclose to a person whose liability to tax may be affected by the determination of the market value of an asset on a particular date, or an apportionment or any other matter, any decision on the matter made by an inspector or other officer of the Board.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F281

M46 (3) Regulations under this section may contain such supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Board to be expedient including in particular—

(a) provisions as to the choice of the Commissioners, whether a body of General Commissioners or the Special Commissioners, to hear the appeal where, in addition to the appellant against an assessment, or the claimant in the case of an appeal against the decision on a claim, and in addition to the inspector or other officer of the Board, some other person is entitled to be a party to the appeal, and

(b) provisions corresponding to [section 151 of the Capital Allowances Act F282 ] (procedure on apportionments where more than one body of General Commissioners has jurisdiction), and

(c) provisions authorising the giving of conditional decisions where, under section 47 of this Act, . . . F283 questions on an appeal against an assessment or a decision on a claim may go partly to one tribunal and partly to another.

(4) Regulations under this section—

(a) shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons, and

(b) shall have effect notwithstanding anything in this Act F284 .

Textual Amendments

F279 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14 SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.8for1979—80et seq.

F280 SeeFinance Act 1974 s.47andSch.10 para.5(1)(5)—includes income tax or corporation tax in respect of development gains.

F281 Repealed, as regards disposals after22July1970,byFinance Act 1971 ss.55and 69(7) andSch.14, Part III,subject toFinance Act 1971, s.55andSch.9.

F282 Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 164and Sch. 1 para. 1(1).Previously

“section 81 of the Capital Allowances Act 1968”.

F283 Words omitted repealed byCapital Gains Tax Act 1979 s.158andSch.8for1979—80et seq.

F284 For regulations seePart III Vol.5.

Marginal Citations

M46 1962

Sch. X(2)(3).

57A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F285 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F285 S. 57A added by Development Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24), Sch. 8 para. 16. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed by Finance Act 1985 s.98(6), Sch. 27 Pt. X.

57B [Commissioners: procedural rules. U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may, with the consent of the Lord Advocate, make rules—

(a) as to the procedure of the Special Commissioners and the procedure in connection with the bringing of matters before them;

(b) as to the time within which matters may be brought before the Special Commissioners; and

(c) providing for appeals which have been heard by the Special Commissioners in the absence of the appellant to be reheard, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions, as the rules may prescribe.

(2) Rules under this section may make such consequential provision (including the amendment of any enactment or instrument made under any enactment) as the Lord Chancellor considers necessary.

(3) Rules under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament F286 .]

Textual Amendments

F286 Finance Act 1984 s.127andSch.22 para.4on and after1January1985by virtue ofS.I. 1984 No. 1836 (C.45).

Northern Ireland U.K.

58 Proceedings in tax cases in Northern Ireland. [1964(M) s.14; 1965 Sch.X 1(1), 18; 1966 Sch.VI 12(1), 27(4).] U.K.

(1) Subject to this section, all references in the Taxes Acts to the General Commissioners (however expressed, and including references in enactments conferring a right of appeal to the General Commissioners or, at the election of the appellant, to the Special Commissioners) shall, in relation to proceedings in Northern Ireland, be taken as references to the Special Commissioners or, in the cases provided for in section 59 below, a county court in Northern Ireland.

F287 (2) A case concerning tax which is stated by theSpecialF287 Commissioners under section 56 of this Act in proceedings in Northern Ireland shall be a case for the opinion of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, and the Taxes Acts F288 shall have effect as if that section applied in relation to such proceedings—

(a) with the substitution for references to the High Court of references to the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, and

(b) with the omission of subsections (4), (5) and (8) of that section,

and the procedure relating to the transmission of the case to, and the hearing and determination of the case by, the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland shall be that for the time being in force in Northern Ireland as respects cases stated by a county court in exercise of its general jurisdiction, and an appeal shall lie from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords in accordance with [section 42 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 F289 ].

[(2A) Where in proceedings in Northern Ireland an application is made for a case to be stated by the Commissioners under section 56 of this Act the case must be settled and sent to the applicant as soon after the application as is reasonably practicable F290 .]

(3) [For the purposes of this section—

(a) “proceedings in Northern Ireland” means proceedings as respects which the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act is in Northern Ireland;

(b) proceedings under section 102, 113(5), 260(3), 281(4) 343(10) or 783(9) of the principal Act (or the corresponding enactments repealed by that Act), section 11 of or paragraph 22 of Schedule 7 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 or [section 151 of the Capital Allowances Act 1990 F291 ] (proceedings to which more than one taxpayer is a party) shall be proceedings in Northern Ireland if the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act in relation to each of the parties concerned in the proceedings is in Northern Ireland.

and sections 21 and 22 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply as if references in those provisions to any enactment included a reference to this section F292

(4) No determination of the Special Commissioners shall be questioned, whether by a case stated under section 56 of this Act or otherwise, on the ground that the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act was not in Northern Ireland, and accordingly that the proceedings ought to have been determined by some body of General Commissioners, except by a party by whom or on whose behalf an objection to the jurisdiction was made to the Special Commissioners before or in the course of the proceedings leading to the determination F293 F294 .

Textual Amendments

F287 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:2) ss. 134(2), 148and Sch. 14 Part IXfrom 3April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).

F288 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—theOil Taxation Acts—for modification regarding petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F289 Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c.23) s.122andSch.5with effect on and after18April1979—S.I. 1979 No.422.

F290 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 135from 3April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).And see Finance Act 1988 s. 134.

F291 Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 164and Sch. 1 para. 1(1).Previously

“section 81 of the Capital Allowances Act 1968”.

F292 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39 SIF 63:1,2) s. 135from 3April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).And see Finance Act 1988 s. 134.Previously

“For the purposes of this section and section 59 below—(a) “proceedings in Northern Ireland” means proceedings as respects which the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act is in Northern Ireland, and “proceedings in Great Britain” shall be construed accordingly;(b) proceedings under [sections 102, 113(5), 263(5) and (6), 343(10) or 783(a) of the principal Act, or paragraph 22 of Schedule 7 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970, or(a)] section 81 of the Capital Allowances Act 1968 (proceedings to which more than one taxpayer is a party) shall be proceedings in Northern Ireland if the place given by the rules in Schedule 3 to this Act in relation to each of the parties concerned in the proceedings is in Northern Ireland, and in relation to such proceedings the right of election to bring proceedings before a county court in Northern Ireland which is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section and section 59 below shall be exercisable jointly by all the parties concerned in the proceedings, and sections 21, 22 and 42(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply as if references in those provisions to any enactment included a reference to this section and section 59 below.(b)

(c)”

(a)Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.Previously

“section 11(aa), 137, 154(5), 252(9) or 494(9) of the principal Act, or paragraph 22 of Schedule 7 to that Act, or”.

(b)

SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application ofs.58(2)(3)to the special tax on banking deposits.

(c)

SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

(aa)

SeeFinance Act 1982 s.157(7)—the repeal of the figure

“11”

byFinance Act 1980 s.122andSch.20 Part VIfor1982—83et seq. is to be deemed not to have taken effect at the beginning of1982—83.

F293 SeeIncome Tax (Employments) Regns. 1973 (S.I. 1973 No.334) (inPart III Vol.5) regn. 10(3)(4)—appeal against coding andregn. 48(3)—appeal against assessment underSch.E.

F294 Subs. (4)repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148 and Sch. 14 Part IXfrom 3 April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).

59 Election for county court in Northern Ireland. [1964(M) s.15.] U.K.

(1) Proceedings in Northern Ireland—

(a) which are brought under the Taxes Acts by an appellant or other party who is not the Board or an officer of the Board, and

(b) which, if they had been proceedings in Great Britain, might have been brought before the General Commissioners,

shall, if the party bringing the proceedings by notice combined (in the case of an appeal) with the notice of appeal, or by a separate notice in writing to the inspector given within the time limited for bringing the proceedings, so elects, be brought before a county court in Northern Ireland instead of before the Special Commissioners.

M47 (2) In relation to proceedings brought under this section the following provisions of this Act—

• section 49

• section 51 with 53

• sections 54 and 55

shall apply with the substitution for references to the Special Commissioners (however expressed) of references to the county court.

(3) Where proceedings are brought before a county court in Northern Ireland under this section—

(a) the county court shall have and exercise the same powers and authority in relation to the assessment appealed against (if any), the proceedings, the determination, and all matters consequent thereon, as the Special Commissioners would have and exercise,

(b) subject to county court rules, the practice and procedure in the proceedings shall be that followed in income tax cases in a county court in Northern Ireland before the commencement of this Act, and

(c) the proceedings shall be heard and determined by a single judge sitting alone, and not in public, who may, for all purposes of and incidental to the hearing and determination of the proceedings, exercise all the powers, authority and jurisdiction exercisable by a county court in Northern Ireland in relation to the hearing and determination of an appeal to which [Part IV of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 F295 ] (appeals to the county courts) applies.

(4) Within thirty days after the determination by the county court of proceedings brought under this section any party to the proceedings may require the court to state a case on a point of law for the opinion of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland.

(5) The procedure relating to the statement of the case shall be that for the time being in force in Northern Ireland as respects cases stated under section 2 of the County Courts Appeals Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 or any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland F296 re-enacting the said section 2 with or without modification so, however, that notwithstanding anything in subsection (7) of the said section 2 or in any such re-enactment, an appeal, with leave as required by [section 42 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 F297 ], shall lie to the House of Lords from any decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland upon a case stated to it pursuant to subsection (4) above.

(6) On the determination by the county court under this section of an appeal against an assessment, tax shall be paid in accordance with the determination notwithstanding that a case has been required to be stated or is pending:

Provided that if the amount of the assessment is altered by the order or judgment of the Court of Appeal, then—

(a) if too much tax has been paid, the amount overpaid shall be refunded with such interest, if any, as the Court of Appeal may allow, or

[(b) if too little tax has been charged, the amount undercharged shall be due and payable at the expiration of a period of thirty days beginning with the date on which the inspector . . . F298 issues to the other party a notice of the total amount payable in accordance with the order or judgment of that CourtF299 ].

(7) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section the determination of the county court in proceedings under this section shall be final and conclusive.

(8) No determination of a county court under this section shall be questioned, whether by a case stated or otherwise, on the ground that the proceedings were not proceedings in Northern Ireland F300 F301 .

Textual Amendments

F295 S.I. 1980 No. 397 (N.I.3.). art. 68(2)and Sch. 1 Part IIwith effect from 19April 1980.

F296 See theNorthern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36) s. 40andSch.5 para.1—includes, from appointed day, a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

F297 Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c.23) s.122andSch.5with effect on and after18April1979—S.I. 1979 No. 422.

F298 Words relating to development land tax added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.15. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F299 Finance (No.2) Act 1975 s.45(3)in relation to notices issued after31July1975.

F300 SeeIncome Tax (Employment) Regns. 1973 (S.I. 1973 No.334) (inPart III Vol.5). regns. 10(3)—appeal against coding andregn. 48(3)—appeal against assessment underSch.E

F301 S. 59Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) ss. 134(2), 148and Sch. 14 Part IXfrom 3 April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (not reproduced).

Marginal Citations

M47 1969

Sch.X 2(2)(3).

PART VI U.K. COLLECTION AND RECOVERY

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C44 Pt. 6 applied (with modifications) by The Income Tax (Sub-contractors in the Construction Industry) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/743), reg. 14(2) (revoked (6.4.2007) by S.I. 2005/2045, Sch. 2)

C45 Pt. 6 applied by The Income Tax (Entertainers and Sportsmen) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/530), reg. 11(3)

60 Issue of demand notes and receipts. [1952 s.73; 1964(M) Sch.IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Every collector shall, when the tax becomes due and payable, make demand of the respective sums given to him in charge to collect, from the persons charged therewith, or at the places of their last abode, or on the premises in respect of which the tax is charged, as the case may require .

(2) On payment of the tax, the collector shall if so requested give a receipt .

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C46 S. 60 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

C47 S. 60 applied (with modifications) by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch. 17 para. 18 (special tax on banking deposits).

Distraint and poinding U.K.

61 Distraint by collectors. [1952 s.74; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) If a person neglects or refuses to pay the sum charged, upon demand made by the collector, the collector shall, for non-payment thereof, distrain upon the lands, tenements and premises in respect of which the tax is charged, or distrain the person charged by his goods and chattels, and all such other goods and chattels as the collector is hereby authorised to distrain .

(2) For the purpose of levying any such distress, a collector may, after obtaining a warrant for the purpose signed by the General Commissioners, break open, in the daytime, any house or premises, calling to his assistance any constable.

Every such constable shall, when so required, aid and assist the collector in the execution of the warrant and in levying the distress in the house or premises.

(3) A levy or warrant to break open shall be executed by, or under the direction of, and in the presence of, the collector.

(4) A distress levied by the collector shall be kept for five days, at the costs and charges of a person neglecting or refusing to pay.

(5) If the person aforesaid does not pay the sum due, together with the costs and charges within the said five days, the distress shall be appraised by two or more inhabitants of the parish in which the distress is taken, or by other sufficient persons, and shall be sold by public auction by the collector for payment of the sum due and all costs and charges.

The costs and charges of taking, keeping, and selling the distress shall be retained by the collector, and any overplus coming by the distress, after the deduction of the costs and charges and of the sum due, shall be restored to the owner of the goods distrained. F302

Textual Amendments

F302 See Finance Act 1989 s. 152for changes from a day to be appointed.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C48 S. 61 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

62 Priority of claim for tax. [1952 s.75; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) [If at any time at which any goods or chattels belonging to any person (in this section referred to as “the person in default”) are F303 ] liable to be taken by virtue of any execution or other process, warrant, or authority whatever, or by virtue of any assignment, on any account or pretence whatever, except at the suit of the landlord for rent, [the person in default is in arrears in respect of any such claims as are referred to in subsection (1A) below, the goods or chattels may not be so taken unless on demand made by the collector F303 ] the person at whose suit the execution or seizure is made, or to whom the assignment was made, pays or causes to be paid to the collector, before the sale or removal of the goods or chattels, all [such sums as have fallen due at or before the date of seizure F303 ].

[(1A) The sums referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) sums due from the person in default on account of deductions of income tax from emoluments paid during the period of twelve months next before the date of seizure, being deductions which the person in default was liable to make under section 203 of the principal Act (pay as you earn) less the amount of the repayments of income tax which he was liable to make during that period; and

(b) sums due from the person in default in respect of deductions required to be made by him for that period under section 559 of the principal Act (sub-contractors in the construction industry) F304 .]

(2) [If the sums referred to in subsection (1) above are not paid within ten days of the date of the demand referred to in that subsection, the collector may F305 ] distrain the goods and chattels notwithstanding the seizure or assignment, and [may proceed F305 ] to the sale thereof, as prescribed by this Act, for the purpose of obtaining payment of the whole of [those sums F305 ], and the reasonable costs and charges attending such distress and sale, and every collector so doing shall be indemnified by virtue of this Act.

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F306

Textual Amendments

F303 Words in s. 62(1) substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 153(2).

F304 S. 62(1A) inserted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 153(3).

F305 Words in s. 62(2) substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 153(4).

F306 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.17. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

63 [Recovery of tax in Scotland [1952 s.76; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, in Scotland, where any tax is due and has not been paid, the sheriff, on an application by the collector accompanied by a certificate by the collector—

(a) stating that none of the persons specified in the application has paid the tax due by him;

(b) stating that the collector has demanded payment under section 60 of this Act from each such person of the amount due by him;

(c) stating that 14 days have elapsed since the date of such demand without payment of the said amount; and

(d) specifying the amount due and unpaid by each such person,

shall grant a summary warrant in a form prescribed by Act of Sederunt authorising the recovery, by way of the diligences mentioned in subsection (2) below, of the amount remaining due and unpaid.

(2) The diligences referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) a poinding and sale in accordance with Schedule 5 to the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987;

(b) an earnings arrestment;

(c) an arrestment and auction of furthcoming or sale.

(3) Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) above shall not apply to an application under that subsection [insofar as it relates to sums due in respect of—

(a) deductions of income tax which any person specified in the application was liable to make under section 203 of the principal Act (pay as you earn); or

(b) deductions required to be made under section 559 of the principal Act (sub-contractors in the construction industry) by any person specified in the application F307 .]

[(4) In this section references to amounts of tax due and references to sums due in respect of deductions include references to amounts which are deemed to be—

(a) amounts of tax which the person is liable to pay by virtue of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1973; or

(b) amounts which the person is liable to pay by virtue of the Income Tax (Sub-Contractors in the Construction Industry) Regulations 1975 F308 .]

Textual Amendments

F307 Finance Act 1989 s. 154(2).Previously

“which relates to tax deducted from the emoluments of an office or employment by virtue of regulations under section [203(a)] of the principal Act.”

(a)Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F308 Finance Act 1989 s. 154(3).

63A Sheriff officer’s fees and outlays. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below and without prejudice to paragraphs 25 to 34 of Schedule 5 to the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (expenses of poinding and sale), the sheriff officer’s fees, together with the outlays necessarily incurred by him, in connection with the execution of a summary warrant shall be chargeable against the debtor.

(2) No fee shall be chargeable by the sheriff officer against the debtor for collecting, and accounting to the collector for, sums paid to him by the debtor in respect of the amount owing F309 .]

Textual Amendments

F309 Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 18) s. 74(1)and Sch. 4 para. 2from 30 November 1988 (by S.I. 1988 No. 1818 (C. 66)).Previously

“Recovery in Scotland.63. In Scotland, the following provisions shall have effect— (1) Upon certificate made to them by the collector that any tax is due and not paid, the General Commissioners, or sheriff or sheriff substitute for the county, shall issue a warrant for the collector recovering the said tax by poinding the goods and effects of any person entered in the certificate as being a defaulter, and any person who has made default in paying any sum which may be levied on him in respect of tax may be entered in the certificate as a defaulter, notwithstanding that he was not named in the assessment to tax: (2) The warrant shall be executed by the sheriff officers of the county: (3) The goods and effects so poinded shall be detained and kept on the ground, or at the house where the same were poinded, or in such other place of which the owner shall have notice, near to the said ground or house, as the officer so poinding the same shall think proper, for the space of five days, during which time the said goods and effects shall remain in the custody of the said officer, and liable to the payment of the whole tax in arrear and to the costs to be paid to the officer who poinded the same as hereinafter directed, unless the owner from whom the same were poinded shall redeem the same, within the said space of five days, by payment to the officer of the said tax in arrear and costs, to be settled in the same manner as if the said goods and effects had been sold as hereinafter directed: (4) The goods and effects so poinded shall, after the expiration of the said five days, be valued and appraised by any two persons to be appointed by the officer (which two persons shall be obliged to value the same, under the penalty of £2 for each neglect or refusal), and shall be sold and disposed of, at a sum not less than the value, by the officer who does poind the same: (5) The value shall be applied, in the first place to the satisfaction and payment of the tax owing by the person whose goods are so poinded, and, in the second place, to the payment for the trouble of the officer so poinding, at the rate of two shillings per pound of the tax for which the goods shall be so poinded unless the owner from whom the same were poinded shall redeem the same by payment of the appraised value, within the space of five days after the valuation, to the officer who poinded the same: (6) In case any surplus remains of the price or value, after payment of the said tax, and after payment of what is allowed to be retained by the officer in manner herein directed, such surplus shall be returned to the owner from whom the goods were poinded: (7) in case no purchaser appears at the said sale, then the said goods and effects, so poinded, shall be consigned and lodged in the hands of the sheriff of the county, or his substitute, and if not redeemed by the owner within the space of five days after the consignment in the hands of the said sheriff or sheriff substitute, the same shall be rouped, sold, and disposed of by order of the sheriff, in such manner, and at such time and place, as he shall appoint, he always being liable to the payment of the tax to the collector, and to payment to the officer who shall have poinded the same, for his trouble and expense, as before stated, and to the fees due to the officer, and being, in the third place, entitled to one shilling per pound of the value of the goods so disposed of, for his own pains and trouble, after preference and allowance of the said tax, and of what is appointed to be paid to the officer for his trouble: (8) There shall also be allowed, to the officer so poinding, the expense of preserving the said goods and effects, and of maintaining the cattle, if there should happen to be any among the goods and effects so poinded, from the time of poinding the same, during the period allowed to the owner to redeem them, and also the expense of the sale; and in like manner the expense shall be allowed to the sheriff or sheriff substitute, for preserving and maintaining the goods or cattle poinded, during the period that the owner is allowed to redeem, after consignment in his hands, and until the sale thereof, and also the expense of the sale: (9) Every auctioneer, or seller by commission, selling by auction, in Scotland, any goods or effects whatsoever by any mode of sale at auction, shall, at least three days before he begins any sale by way of auction, deliver or cause to be delivered to the collector a notice in writing, signed by such auctioneer or seller by auction, specifying therein the particular day when such sale is to begin, and the name and surname of the person whose goods and effects are to be sold, with his place of residence: (10) If any such auctioneer or seller by auction shall sell any such goods and effects by way of auction, without delivering the notice hereinbefore required to be delivered, every such auctioneer, or person selling by auction, offending therein shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty of £50.”

64 Priority of claim for tax in Scotland. [1952 s.77; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) [If at any time at which any movable goods and effects belonging to any person (in this section referred to as “the person in default”) are F310 ] liable to be taken by virtue of any poinding, sequestration for rent, or diligence whatever, or by any assignation, [the person in default is in arrears in respect of any such sums as are referred to in subsection (1A) below, the goods and effects may not be so taken unless on demand made by the collector F311 ] the person proceeding to take the said goods and effects pays [such sums as have fallen due at or before the date of poinding or, as the case may be, other diligence or assignation F311 .]

[(1A) The sums referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) sums due from the person in default on account of deductions of income tax from emoluments paid during the period of twelve months next before the date of poinding, being deductions which the person in default was liable to make under section 203 of the principal Act (pay as you earn) less the amount of the repayments of income tax which he was liable to make during that period; and

(b) sums due from the person in default in respect of deductions required to be made by him for that period under section 559 of the principal Act (sub-contractors in the construction industry) F312 .]

(2) [If the sums referred to in subsection (1) above are not paid within ten days of the date of the demand referred to in that subsection, the sums shall F313 ], notwithstanding any [proceedings F313 ] for the purpose of taking the said moveable goods and effects, be recoverable by poinding and selling the said moveable goods and effects under warrant obtained in conformity with the provisions contained in section 63 above.

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F314

Textual Amendments

F310 Finance Act 1989 s. 155(2)(a).Previously

“No moveable goods and effects belonging to any person in Scotland, at the time any tax became in arrear or was payable, shall be”.

F311 Words in s. 64(1) substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 155(2)(b)(c).

F312 Finance Act 1989 s. 155(3)

F313 Words in s. 64(2) substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 155(4)(a)(b).

F314 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.18 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

Court proceedings U.K.

65 Magistrates’ courts. [1952 s.78(1)(2)(5); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Where—

(a) the amount of any tax for the time being due and payable under any assessment is less than [£500 F315 ], or

(b) the tax under any assessment is payable by instalments and the sum for the time being due and payable in respect of any of those instalments is less than [£500 F315 ],

the tax shall, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recoverable summarily as a civil debt by proceedings commenced in the name of a collector.

(2) All or any of the sums due in respect of tax from any one person and payable to any one collector (being sums which are by law recoverable summarily) may, whether or not they are due under one assessment, be included in the same complaint, summons, order, warrant or other document required by law to be laid before justices or to be issued by justices, and every such document as aforesaid shall, as respects each such sum, be construed as a separate document and its invalidity as respects any one such sum shall not affect its validity as respects any other such sum.

(3) Proceedings under this section for the recovery of any tax charged under Schedule E may be brought in England and Wales at any time within one year from the time when the matter complained of arose.

M48 (4) It is hereby declared that in subsection (1) above the expression “recoverable summarily as a civil debt” in respect of proceedings in Northern Ireland means recoverable [in proceedings under Article 62 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 F316 ].

[(5) The Treasury may by order made by statutory instrument increase the sums specified in sub-section (1) above; and any such statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament F317 .]

Textual Amendments

F315 S.I. 1989 No. 1300from September 1989.Previously

“£250”

by Finance Act 1984 s. 57(1).Previously

“£50”

F316 Finance Act 1984 s. 57(1).Previously

“in the manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts for the recovery of sums declared under enactments of the Parliament of Northern Ireland(a) to be a debt recoverable summarily(b)”.

(a)

See theNorthern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36) s.40andSch.5 para.1—includes, from appointed day, a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(b)

See— Finance Act 1935 s.34 (reproduced inPart II Vol.5)—application of theSummary Jurisdiction Acts (Northern Ireland).Income Tax (Sub-Contractors in the Construction Industry) Regns. 1975 (S.I. 1971 No.1960) (inPart III Vol.5) regns. 9to12recovery from contractor of sums deductible from payments to sub-contractors. Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1973 (1973 No.334) (inPart III Vol.5) regn.28—recovery from employer of tax deductible under P.A.Y.E. scheme.Administration of Justice Act 1970 ss.11to14andSch.4 (inPart II Vol.5)—special enforcement provisions.

F317 Finance Act 1984 s.57(1)(c).

Marginal Citations

M48 1964

(M) s.8(6).

66 County courts. [1964(M) s.8(1); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Where the amount of tax for the time being due and payable under any assessment does not exceed the [county court limit F318 ], the tax may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith as a debt due to the Crown by proceedings in a county court commenced in the name of a collector.

M49 [(2) An officer of the Board who is authorised by the Board to do so may address the court in any proceedings under this section in a county court in England and Wales F319 .]

[(2A) In subsection (1) of this section “the county court limit” means the amount which for the time being is the county court limit for the purposes of section 16 of the County Courts Act 1984 F318 .]

M50 (3) In the application of subsection (1) of this section to Northern Ireland, for the reference to [the county court limit there shall be substituted a reference to the limit specified in F318 ] [section 10(1) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 F320 ], and in this section as it applies in Northern Ireland the expression “county court” shall mean a county court held for a division under [that Order F320 ].

(4) Sections 21 and 42(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply as if any reference in those provisions to any enactment included a reference to this section, and Part III of the County Courts [(Northern Ireland) Order 1980 F320 ] (general civil jurisdiction) shall apply for the purposes of this section in Northern Ireland F321 .

Textual Amendments

F318 County Courts Act 1984 (c.28) s.148(1)andSch.2 para.36with effect from1August1984.Previously

“limit specified in section 40(1)(b) of the County Courts Act 1959 (money recoverable by statute), as for the time being in force”

insubs. (1)and

“section 40(1)(b) of the County Courts Act 1959 there shall be substituted a reference to”

insubs. (3).

F319 Finance Act 1984 s.57(2).Previously

“(2) Any barrister who is an officer of the Board may appear in, conduct, defend and address the court in any legal proceedings under this section in a county court in England or Wales(a)”.

(a)

See alsoInland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 (c. 21, SIF 63:1) s.27 (reproduced inPart II Vol.5)—representation of Commissioners of Inland Revenue by solicitors in county court proceedings.

F320 S.I. 1980 No.397 (N.I.3). Art 68(2)and Sch. 1 Part IIwith effect from 19 April 1980.

F321 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking depositsIncome Tax (Employments) Regulations 1973 (1973 No.334) (inPart III Vol.5) regn.28—recovery from employer of tax deductible under P.A.Y.E..Income Tax (Sub-Contractors in the Construction Industry) Regns. 1975 (S.I. 1975 No.1960) (in Part II Vol. 5) regns. 9to12—recovery from contractor of sums deductible underFinance Act 1971 s.29from payments to sub-contractors.Administration of Justice Act 1970 (inPart II Vol.5) ss.11to14andSch.4—special enforcement provisions.

Marginal Citations

M49 1964

(M) s.8(3).

M50 1964

(M) s.8(5)(7).

67 Inferior courts in Scotland. [1964(M) s.8(4); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] [1971 c.58.] U.K.

(1) In Scotland, where the amount of tax for the time being due and payable under any assessment [does not exceed the sum for the time being specified in section 35(1)(a) of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 F322 ] the tax may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith as a debt due to the Crown by proceedings commenced in the name of a collector in the sheriff court . . . F323 .

M51 (2) Sections 65 and 66 above shall not apply in Scotland F324 .

Textual Amendments

F322 Finance Act 1976 s.58(1)having effect on1September1976.From September1976 S.I. 1976 No.900substituted the sum of£500for the sum of£250previously stated in theSheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c.58) s.35(1)(a).

F323 Sheriff's small debt court abolished from 1 September 1976 by Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c.58), s.35(2). Words omitted repealed by Finance Act 1976 (c. 40), s.58(1), Sch.15 Part III from that date..

F324 S.I. 1980 No.397 (N.I.3). Art 68(2)and Sch. 1 Part IIwith effect from 19 April 1980.

Marginal Citations

M51 1964

(M) s.8(4); Sch.VI.

68 High Court, etc. [1952 s.79; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Any tax may be sued for and recovered from the person charged therewith in the High Court as a debt due to the Crown, or by any other means whereby any debt of record or otherwise due to the Crown can, or may at any time, be sued for and recovered, as well as by the other means specially provided by this Act for levying the tax.

M52 (2) All matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court under this section shall be assigned in Scotland to the Court of Session sitting as the Court of Exchequer .

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C49 S. 68 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

S. 68 applied by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s.134, Sch.17 para.18 (special tax on banking deposits).

Marginal Citations

M52 1952 s.522; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.

Supplemental U.K.

69 Interest on tax. [1967 s.40(4)(6)(a).] U.K.

Interest charged under Part IX of this Act shall be treated for the purposes—

(a) of sections 61, 63 and 65 to 68 above , and

(b) of section 35(2)(g)(i) of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (rules of court to impose restrictions on set-off and counterclaim where the proceedings or set-off or counterclaim relate to taxes) and of any rules of court (including county court rules) for England and Wales or Northern Ireland, which impose such a restriction, and

(c) of section 35(2)(b) of the said Act of 1947 as set out in section 50 of that Act (which imposes corresponding restrictions in Scotland),

as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it relates F325 .

Textual Amendments

F325 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 ss. 86(1) and 95(2), (3)for additional wording to be inserted for accounting periods after a day to be appointed (not earlier than 31 March 1992).Finance Act 1989 s. 157(5)for words to replace those following (c) where interest is charged under s. 86 Table para. 5in accordance with Finance Act 1989 s. 157(5)—carry back of surplus ACT. (Ceases to have effect for accounting periods ending after the appointed day).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C50 S. 69 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

C51 S. 69 applied (with modifications) by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s.134, Sch.17 para.18 (special tax on banking deposits).

70 Evidence. [1952 s.71; 1964(M) Sch.IV; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Where tax is in arrear, a certificate of the inspector or any other officer of the Board that tax has been charged and is due, together with a certificate of the collector that payment of the tax has not been made to him, or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector, or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector, shall be sufficient evidence that the sum mentioned in the certificate is unpaid and is due to the Crown; and any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate until the contrary is proved .

M53 (2) A certificate of a collector that interest is payableunder section 86 F326 [or 87 F327 ] of this Act F328 and that payment of the interest has not been made to him, or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector, or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector, shall be sufficient evidence that the sum mentioned in the certificate is unpaid and is due to the Crown, and any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved .

[(3) A certificate of the inspector or any other officer of the Board that it has been determined that tax carries interest under section 88 of this Act, together with a certificate of the collector that payment of the interest has not been made to him, or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector, or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector, shall be sufficient evidence—

(a) that interest is chargeable on the tax from the date when for the purposes of section 88 of this Act the tax ought to have been paid, and

(b) that the sum mentioned in the certificate is unpaid and is due to the Crown;

and any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved F329 .]

M54 (4) A written statement as to the wages, salaries, fees, and other emoluments paid for any period to the person against whom proceedings are brought under section 65, 66 or 67 of this Act, purporting to be signed by his employer for that period or by any responsible person in the employment of the employer, shall in such proceedings be prima facie evidence that the wages, salaries, fees and other emoluments therein stated to have been paid to the person charged have in fact been so paid.

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F330

Textual Amendments

F326 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(3)—the reference to s. 86includes a reference to Taxes Management Act 1970 s. 87Afor accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 11(2)—reference to s. 86includes a reference to Finance Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 3(4)—interest on underwriters' liabilities.

F327 Finance Act 1985 s.93(7)andSch.25 para.6.Previously

“86A or 87”

by Finance Act 1980 s.115.Originally

“or 87”.

F328 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1and Sch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F329 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 160(3).

F330 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 ss. 84(4) and 95(2), (3)for new subsection (5) re penalties incurred after a day to be appointed. Repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part VIII.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C52 S. 70 applied (with modifications) by the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1)

S. 70 applied (with modifications) by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch. 17 para. 18 (special tax on banking deposits).

Marginal Citations

M53 1952 s.495(5); 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XV 8.

M54 1952 s.78(3); 1964(M) s.8(2).

PART VII U.K. PERSONS CHARGEABLE IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY, ETC.

Income Tax F331 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F331 See Finance Act 1989 s. 151—assessement on any one of trustees or personal representatives.

71 Bodies of persons. [1952 s.362.] U.K.

(1) Subject to [sections 6 to 12 and Parts VIII and XI F332 ] of the principal Act (charge of corporation tax on companies), every body of persons shall be chargeable to income tax in like manner as any person is chargeable under the Income Tax Acts.

(2) Subject to section 108 of this Act, the chamberlain or other officer acting as treasurer, auditor or receiver for the time being of any body of persons chargeable to income tax shall be answerable for doing all such acts as are required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for the purpose of the assessment of the body and for payment of the tax.

(3) Every such officer as aforesaid may from time to time retain, out of any money coming into his hands on behalf of the body, so much thereof as is sufficient to pay the income tax charged upon the body, and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of the Income Tax Acts F333 .

Textual Amendments

F332 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F333 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134and Sch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

72 Trustees, guardians, etc., of incapacitated persons. [1952 s.363.] U.K.

(1) The trustee, guardian, tutor, curator or committee of any incapacitated person having the direction, control or management of the property or concern of any such person, whether such person resides in the United Kingdom or not, shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in like manner and to the like amount as that person would be assessed and charged if he were not an incapacitated person.

(2) The person who is chargeable in respect of an incapacitated person shall be answerable for all matters required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for the purpose of assessment and payment of income tax.

(3) Any person who has been charged under the Income Tax Acts in respect of any incapacitated person as aforesaid may retain, out of money coming into his hands on behalf of any such person, so much thereof from time to time as is sufficient to pay the tax charged, and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of the Income Tax Acts.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C53 S. 72 restricted (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 15(3), 173(4), Sch. 2 para. 5(a)

73 Further provision as to infants. [1952 s.364.] U.K.

If a person chargeable to income tax is an infant, then his parent, guardian or tutor—

(a) shall be liable for the tax in default of payment by the infant, and

(b) on neglect or refusal of payment, may be proceeded against in like manner as any other defaulter, and

(c) if he makes such payment, shall be allowed all sums so paid in his accounts.

74 Personal representatives. [1952 s.365; 1964(M) Sch.IV.] U.K.

(1) If a person chargeable to income tax dies, the executor or administrator of the person deceased shall be liable for the tax chargeable on such deceased person, and may deduct any payments made under this section out of the assets and effects of the person deceased F334 .

(2) On neglect or refusal of payment, any person liable under this section may be proceeded against in like manner as any other defaulter F335 .

Textual Amendments

F334 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 62:1) s.40(1)—time limit for assessment, etc.Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 62:1) s.100(5)—recovery of fine or penalty incurred by a person who has died.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss. 60, 62and 63—liability of executors, etc., for income tax on profits of trade or profession of deceased person. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 67—right of executors, etc., to claim relief for cessation of investment income where source retained. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 113—liability of executors for income tax on partnership profits where partner deceased. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 285—collection from deceased wife's executors, etc., of tax assessed on husband attributable to her income and unpaid. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 286—right of husband to disclaim liability for tax on deceased wife's income. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 525—effect of death, etc., on certain charges in respect of patent rights.

F335 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

75 Receivers appointed by a court. [1952 s.366.] U.K.

(1) A receiver appointed by any court in the United Kingdom which has the direction and control of any property in respect of which income tax is charged in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Acts shall be assessable and chargeable with the tax in like manner and to the like amount as would be assessed and charged if the property were not under the direction and control of the court.

(2) Every such receiver shall be answerable for doing all matters and things required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for the purpose of assessment and payment of income tax F336 .

Textual Amendments

F336 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

76 Protection for certain trustees, agents and receivers. [1952 s.367.] U.K.

(1) A trustee who has authorised the receipt of profits arising from trust property by, or by the agent of, the person entitled thereto shall not, if—

(a) that person or agent actually received the profits under that authority, and

(b) the trustee makes a return, as required by section 13 of this Act, of the name, address and profits of that person,

be required to do any other act for the purpose of the assessment of that person to income tax.

(2) An agent or receiver of any person resident in the United Kingdom, other than an incapacitated person, shall not, if he makes a return, as required by section 13 of this Act, of the name, address and profits of that person, be required to do any other act for the purpose of the assessment of that person to income tax.

Capital gains tax U.K.

77 Application of Part VII to capital gains tax. [1965 Sch.X 1(1), 12(2).] U.K.

(1) This Part of this Act (except section 76 above) shall apply in relation to capital gains tax as it applies in relation to income tax . . . F337 , and subject to any necessary modifications.

(2) This Part of this Act as applied by this section shall not affect the question of who is the person to whom chargeable gains accrue, or who is chargeable to capital gains tax, so far as that question is relevant for the purposes of any exemption, or of any provision determining the rate at which capital gains tax is chargeable.

Textual Amendments

F337 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37and38andSch.14 Part II.

77A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F338 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F338 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.19 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

PART VIII U.K. CHARGES ON NON-RESIDENTS F339

Textual Amendments

F339 See alsoFinance Act 1973 s.38and Sch.15 paras. 4to9—collection from holder of licence underPetroleum (Production) Act 1934of tax assessed on non-residents unders.38 (territorial extension of charges to tax).

Income tax U.K.

78 Method of charging non-residents. [1952 s.369.] U.K.

(1) Subject to [subsection (2) below and F340 ] section [43 F341 ] of the principal Act (Schedule A etc.) a person not resident in the United Kingdom, whether a British subject or not, shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in the name of any such trustee, guardian, tutor, curator or committee as is mentioned in section 72 of this Act, or of any branch or agent, whether the branch or agent has the receipt of the profits or gains or not, in like manner and to the like amount as such non-resident person would be assessed and charged if he were resident in the United Kingdom and in the actual receipt of such profits or gains F342 .

[(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom shall not, by virtue of this section, be chargeable in the name of an agent in respect of profits or gains arising from investment transactions carried out by the agent if—

(a) the agent is carrying on a business of providing investment management services to a number of clients of whom the non-resident person is one; and

(b) the investment transactions concerned were carried out in the ordinary course of the business referred to in paragraph (a) above; and

(c) the remuneration which the agent receives for the provision of investment management services to the non-resident person is at a rate which is not less than that which is customary for that class of business; and

(d) in the case of profits or gains which are chargeable to tax as the profits or income of the non-resident person from carrying on a trade in the United Kingdom through a branch or agency, the agent carrying out the investment transaction is also the agency through which the trade is carried on;

and in the case of an agent who provides investment management services as part only of a business, paragraphs (a) to (d) above shall apply as if that part were a separate business.

(3) In subsection (2) above “investment transactions” means—

(a) transactions in shares, stock or securities of any other description, excluding commodity or financial futures,

(b) transactions on a recognised futures exchange, within the meaning of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979, and

(c) the placing of money at interest,

and for the purposes of that subsection an agent carries out such a transaction on behalf of his client whether he undertakes the transaction himself or by giving instructions to another person.

(4) Subsection (2) above does not apply to profits or gains which constitute income of an offshore fund, within the meaning of Chapter [V of Part XVII of the principal Act F343 ].

(5) Subsection (2) above does not apply if the non-resident person and the agent are connected with each other, within the terms of section [839 F343 ] of the principal Act F344 .]

Textual Amendments

F340 Finance Act 1985 s.50for 1985—86et seq. for profits or gains chargeable to income tax and for accounting periods ending on or after1April1985for profits etc. chargeable to corporation tax.

F341 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F342 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 43—s. 78not applicable to tax on profits within Sch. A,or in certain cases Sch. D Case VI,where payment made direct to person whose usual place of abode is outside the United Kingdom.

F343 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F344 Finance Act 1985 s.50for1985—86 et seq. for profits or gains chargeable to income tax and for accounting periods ending on or after1April1985for profits etc. chargeable to corporation tax.

79 Profits from branch or agency. [1952 s.370.] U.K.

A non-resident person shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in respect of any profits or gains arising, whether directly or indirectly, through or from any branch or agency, and shall be so assessable and chargeable in the name of the branch or agent.

80 Charge on percentage of turnover. [1952 s.371; 1964(M) Sch.IV.] U.K.

(1) Where it appears to the inspector or, on appeal, to the General or Special Commissioners, that the true amount of the profits or gains of any non-resident person chargeable with income tax in the name of a resident person cannot in any case be readily ascertained, the inspector or Commissioners may, if he or they think fit, assess and charge the non-resident person on a percentage of the turnover of the business done by the non-resident person through or with the resident person in whose name he is chargeable as aforesaid, and the inspector may by notice require the resident person to deliver a return of the business so done by the non-resident person through or with the resident person.

(2) The amount of percentage under subsection (1) of this section shall in each case be determined, having regard to the nature of the business, by the inspector or Commissioners.

(3) If either the resident person or the non-resident person is dissatisfied with the percentage as confirmed or determined by the General or Special Commissioners on appeal, he may within four months of the determination, require the Commissioners to refer the question of the percentage to a referee or board of referees to be appointed for the purpose by the Treasury and the decision of the referee or board shall be final and conclusive. F345

Textual Amendments

F345 See Finance Act 1989 s. 182 (in Part II Vol. 5)—disclosure of information.

81 Taxation on basis of merchanting profit. [1952 s.372; 1964(M) Sch.IV.] U.K.

Where a non-resident person is chargeable to income tax in the name of any branch or agent in respect of any profits or gains arising from the sale of goods or produce manufactured or produced out of the United Kingdom by the non-resident person, the person in whose name the non-resident person is so chargeable may, by notice included in a return of income delivered within six years from the end of the year of assessment for which he is chargeable, elect to be assessed in respect of those profits or gains on the basis of the profits which might reasonably be expected to have been earned by a merchant or, where the goods are retailed by or on behalf of the manufacturer or producer, by a retailer of the goods sold, who had bought from the manufacturer or producer direct.

82 Savings. [1952 s.373.] U.K.

(1) Nothing in this Part of this Act shall render a non-resident person chargeable in the name of a broker or in the name of an agent not being an authorised person carrying on the regular agency of the non-resident person, in respect of profits or gains arising from sales or transactions carried out through such a broker or agent:

Provided that where sales or transactions are carried out on behalf of a non-resident person through a broker in the ordinary course of his business as such and the broker—

(a) is a person carrying on bona fide the business of a broker in the United Kingdom, and

(b) receives in respect of the business of the non-resident person which is transacted through him remuneration at a rate not less than that customary in the class of business in question,then, notwithstanding that the broker is a person who acts regularly for the non-resident person as such broker, the non-resident person shall not be chargeable in the name of that broker in respect of profits or gains arising from those sales or transactions.

In this subsection, “broker” includes a general commission agent.

(2) The fact that a non-resident person executes sales or carries out transactions with other non-residents which would make him chargeable in pursuance of this Part of this Act in the name of a resident person shall not of itself make him chargeable in respect of profits arising from those sales or transactions F346 .

Textual Amendments

F346 SeeCapital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.12(3)— “branch or agency”

in Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (capital gains)excludes person exempt unders.82.

83 Responsibilities and indemnification of persons in whose name a non-resident person is chargeable. [1952 s.374.] U.K.

(1) A person in whose name a non-resident person is chargeable shall be answerable for all matters required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for the purpose of assessment and payment of income tax.

(2) A person who has been charged under the Income Tax Acts in respect of any non-resident person as aforesaid may retain, out of money coming into his hands on behalf of any such person, so much thereof from time to time as is sufficient to pay the tax charged, and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of the Income Tax Acts F347 .

Textual Amendments

F347 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134and Sch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

Capital gains tax U.K.

84 Gains from branch or agency. [1952 s.370; 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) A non-resident person shall be assessable and chargeable to capital gains tax in respect of any chargeable gains arising, whether directly or indirectly, through or from any branch or agency, and shall be so assessable and chargeable in the name of the branch or agent.

M55 (2) The person in whose name the non-resident person is chargeable shall be answerable for all matters required to be done under the enactments relating to capital gains tax for the purpose of assessment and payment of that tax.

(3) A person who has been charged under this section in respect of any non-resident person may retain, out of money coming into his hands on behalf of any such person, so much thereof from time to time as is sufficient to pay the tax charged, and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of the enactments relating to capital gains tax.

Marginal Citations

M55 1952 s.374; 1968 Sch.XII 13.

Corporation tax U.K.

85 Application of Part VIII to corporation tax. [1965 s.50(4).] U.K.

(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to income tax, so far as they are applicable to tax chargeable on a company, shall apply with any necessary adaptations in relation to corporation tax chargeable on companies not resident in the United Kingdom.

[(2) Subsection (2) of section 83 above shall apply—

(a) to corporation tax to which a person is chargeable in respect of a non-resident company and which has become due and payable without the making of an assessment; and

(b) to interest to which he is chargeable on such tax under section 87A below,

as it applies (by virtue of subsection (1) above) to corporation tax which has been assessed on him in respect of such a company F348 .]

Textual Amendments

F348 Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 95and Sch. 6 para. 7for tax in respect of accounting periods ending after a day to be apointed (not earlier than 31 March 1992), and interest on such tax.

85A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F349 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F349 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.20 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

PART IX U.K. INTEREST ON OVERDUE TAX F350

Textual Amendments

F350 See—Finance Act 1984 Sch.14 para.6(4)—notwithstanding anything inPart IXpayments of capital gains tax postponed underFinance Act 1984 Sch.14not to carry interest for any period before tax becomes payable underFinance Act 1984 Sch.14 para.11.Finance Act 1989 s. 124and Sch. 14 para. 5—payment by installments of capital gains tax on gifts.S.I. 1987 No. 530 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 11(3)—tax under assessments in relation to non-resident entertainers and sportsmen to be treated for the purposes of Part IXas income tax underSch. D.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C54 Part IX (ss. 86-92) applied (27.7.1993 with effect in relation to the year 1993-94 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 122(2)(3)

86 [Interest on overdue tax. U.K.

(1) Any tax charged by an assessment to which this section applies shall carry interest at the [rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 F351 ] from the reckonable date until payment.

(2) This section applies to—

(a) an assessment to income tax under Schedule A, Schedule C, Schedule D or Schedule E,

(b) an assessment charging income tax at a rate other than the basic rate on income from which income tax has been deducted (otherwise than under section [203 F352 ] of the principal Act) or from or on which income tax is treated as having been deducted or paid or income chargeable under Schedule F,

(c) an assessment to capital gains tax,

(d) an assessment to corporation tax other than an assessment made under Schedule [13 to the principal Act F352 ] (advance corporation tax) F353 F354 .

[(3) For the purposes of this section—

(a) the reckonable date in relation to any tax charged by an assessment to income tax under Schedule E, and

(b) subject to subsection (3A) below, the reckonable date in relation to tax charged by any other assessment to which this section applies,

is the date on which the tax becomes due and payable.

(3A) Where an appeal has been made against an assessment and any of the tax charged by the assessment is due and payable on a date later than the date given by the Table in subsection (4) below, the reckonable date in relation to the tax so due and payable is the later of—

(a) the date given by that Table, and

(b) the date on which the tax would have been due and payable if there had been no appeal against the assessment (assuming in a case where the tax would not have been charged by the assessment if there had been no appeal that it was so charged).

(4) The Table referred to in subsection (3A) above is as follows— F355 ] F356 .

TABLE

Description of tax	Dat eapplicable
1. Tax charged by an assessment to income tax under Schedule A or an assessment to income tax under Schedule D other than an assessment made under Part III of Schedule [3 F357 ] to the principal Act (machinery for assessment, charge and payment of income tax under Schedule C and, in certain cases, Schedule D).	1. The 1st July following the end of the year of assessment.
2. Tax charged by an assessment to income tax under Schedule C or an assessment to income tax under Schedule D made under Part III of Schedule [3 F357 ] to the principal Act.	2. The last day of the six months following the end of the thirty days mentioned in paragraph 9 of the said Schedule [3 F357 ].
3. Tax charged by an assessment charging income tax as mentioned in subsection (2)(b) above F358 .	3. [The 1st June following the 1st December mentioned in section [5(4) F359 ] of the principal Act F360 .]
4. Tax charged by an assessment to capital gains tax.	4. [The 1st June following the 1st December mentioned in section 7 of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F360 .]
5. Tax charged by an assessment to corporation tax other than an assessment made under Schedule [13 to the principal Act F359 ].	5. The last day of the six months following—
	(a) in a case where section [10(1) F359 ] of the principal Act applies, the end of the nine months there mentioned F361 ;
	(b) in a case where section 244(1) of that Act applies, the end of the interval there mentioned from the end of the accounting period to which the assessment relatesF362 ; or
	(c) in a case where section [478 F359 ] of that Act applies, the last day on which the tax could have been paid within the time limit F363 imposed by subsection (2)(a) of that section. F364

(5) Tax charged by an assessment to which this section applies shall carry interest from the reckonable date even if that date is a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882.

(6) Where the amount of interest payable under this section on the tax charged by any assessment does not exceed [£30 F365 ], that interest may, if the Board think fit, be remitted F366 ] F367 F368 .

Textual Amendments

F351 Finance Act 1989 s. 179(1)(b)and S.I. 1989 No. 1298from 18 August 1989. Previously

“prescribed rate”.And see S.I. 1989 No. 1297for regulations made, and interest rate set, under Finance Act 1989 s. 178See also Table I Vol. 1for rates of interest.

F352 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F353 Subs. (d)omitted byFinance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(2)for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed (not earlier than 31 March 1992).

F354 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 375—assessements under subsection (3)to be regarded as if included among those specified in s. 86(2).Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para. 6(2)(a)—assessments under para. 6to be regarded as if they were included among those specified in s. 86(2).S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 33(3) —assessments under S.I. 1986 No. 1948(personal equity plans) to be treated as assessments specified ins. 86(2).S.I. 1987 No. 352 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 6(6)—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:2)to apply to assessments under S.I. 1987 No. 352 (pension scheme surpluses: administration) as if under s. 86(2)but omitting s. 86(3)and (4)and substituting a different definition of

“the reckonable date”.

F355 Finance Act 1989 s. 156(1)for tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30 July 1982. Previously

“In this section “reckonable date” means— (a) in relation to any tax the date for the payment of which is given by section 55 above and which, if there had been no appeal, would have become due and payable on an earlier date, that earlier date or the date mentioned in subsection (4) below, whichever is the later, and [(aa) in relation to any tax payable in accordance with the determination of an appeal against an assessment but which had not been charged by the assessment, the date which if it had been charged would by virtue of paragraph (a) above have been the reckonable date; and(a)] (b) in relation to any tax not falling within paragraph (a) [or paragraph (aa)(a)] above, the date on which it becomes due and payable. (4) The date referred to in subsection (3)(a) above is the date on which the tax becomes due and payable or the date given by the following Table, whichever is the earlier.”

(a)Finance Act 1982 s.69(1)(a)(b)in relation to notices of assessment issued after30July1982.

F356 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 5for dates of payment of income tax.S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 33(3)—sums charged by assessments under S.I. 1986 No. 1948(personal equity plans) to be treated as tax specified in the Table in s. 86(4).

F357 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F358 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 375(4)(b)—sums charged by assessements under s. 375(3)to be regarded as if they were included in para. 3 of the Table.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para. 6(2)(b)—sums charged by assessments under para. 6to be regarded as if they were included in para. 3 of the Table.

F359 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F360 Finance Act 1980 s.61(3)in relation to tax for1980—81et seq.

F361 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 30 para. 1(7)for modification of para. 5(a)of the Table for any accounting periods of companies to which Finance Act 1970 s. 244applied for the last accounting period ending before 17 March 1987 and which fell within Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 30 para. 1(3) or 1(4).

F362 Para. 5(b)repealed by Finance Act 1987 s. 72(7)and Sch. 16 Part Vfor accounting periods beginning on or after 17 March 1987.

F363 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 30—the reference to the time limit imposed by s. 478to be construed as a reference to the time limit for an accounting period of a building society ending in the year 1989-90.

F364 Para. 5of the Table omitted by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(2)for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

See—Finance Act 1989 s. 157(1)for application of para. 5 totax charged under s. 252(1)as a result of a s. 240claim made on or after 14 March 1989. (Ceases to have effect for accounting periods ending after the appointed day).Finance Act 1989 s. 157(2)–(4)for application of para. 5 where there is a carry back of surplus ACT in relation to claims made under s. 239(3)on or after 14 March 1989. (Ceases to have effect for accounting periods ending after the appointed day.

F365 Finance Act 1980 s.62for interest on assessments issued after1August1980.

F366 Finance (No. 2) Act 1975 s.46(1)in relation to tax charged by assessments where notices issued after31July1975.

F367 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s. 109—application of s. 86to tax assessable on close companies under Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (c. 10, 63:1) ss. 286, 288and 289.Finance Act 1973 s.38andSch.15 para.4—collection of interest on tax assessed on non-residents unders.38 (territorial extension of charges to tax).Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.15(4)—application ofs.86to the special tax on banking deposits.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 285—adjustment of interest where tax assessed on husband in respect of wife's income is collectable from her or her executors.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss. 306 and 307—application of s. 86in relation to business start-up relief and to business expansion scheme relief.

F368 See—Finance Act 1989 ss. 158and Sch. 17—Subs. (6)ceases to have effect in respect of demands etc. made on or after a day to be appointed.Social Security Act 1975 Sch. 2 para. 7 (in Part II Vol. 5)—collection of Class 4 contributions with income tax.

86A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F369 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F369 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.21 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

87 Interest on overdue advance corporation tax and income tax on company payments. U.K.

[(1) Any tax assessable in accordance with Schedule [13 F370 ] or [16 F370 ] to [the principal Act F370 ] shall carry interest at the [rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 F371 ] from the date when the tax becomes due and payable until payment F372 .

(2) Where—

(a) advance corporation tax paid in respect of distributions made in any return period is repaid under paragraph 4 of the said Schedule [13 F370 ] in consequence of the receipt of franked investment income in a later return period; or

(b) income tax paid in respect of payments made in any return period is repaid or discharged under paragraph 5 of the said Schedule [16 F370 ] in consequence of the receipt in a later return period of a payment on which income tax is borne by deduction,

the repayment or discharge shall not affect interest under this section on the tax so repaid or discharged for such time as is specified in subsection (3) below but, subject to that, this section shall apply as if any such tax which is repaid or discharged had never become payable.

(3) The time for which interest is not affected is—

(a) any time before the expiration of fourteen days from the end of the later return period, unless the return for that period is made earlier in those fourteen days; and

(b) if that return is made earlier in those fourteen days, any time ending before the date on which the return is made.

(4) Interest shall not be payable under this section on the tax charged by any assessment unless the total amount of the interest exceeds [£30 F373 ]. F374

(5) Subsection (4) above shall have effect as if all advance corporation tax due from a company in accordance with paragraph 3(1) of the said Schedule [13 F370 ] for any return period, whether or not it is actually assessed, were included in a single assessment, and similarly in the case of all income tax due from a company in accordance with paragraph 4(1) of the said Schedule [16 F370 ] for any return period. F374

(6) In this section “return period” means a period for which a return is required to be made under the said Schedule [13 F370 ] or [16 F370 ].

(7) It is hereby declared that this section applies to advance corporation tax and income tax which, in accordance with either of those Schedules, is paid without the making of any assessment (but is paid after it is due), and that where the tax is charged by an assessment (whether or not any part of it has been paid when the assessment is made) this section applies as respects interest running before as well as after the making of the assessment F375 .]

[(8) Tax assessable as mentioned in subsection (1) above shall carry interest from the date when it becomes due and payable even if that date is a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 F376 .] F377

Textual Amendments

F370 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F371 Finance Act 1989 s. 179(1)(b)and S.I. 1989 No. 1298from 18August 1989.Previously

“prescribed rate”.And see S.I. 1989 No. 1297for regulations made, and interest rate set, under Finance Act 1989 s. 178.See also Table I Vol. 1for rates of interest.

F372 See—S. I. 1986 No. 482 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 7(4)—application of s. 87to tax to which Finance Act 1972 Sch. 20applies by virtue of S.I. 1986 No. 482 regn. 7.S. I. 1987 No. 530 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 14(2)—modification of s. 87in relation to tax assessable in respect of non-resident entertainers and sportsmen.

F373 Finance Act 1980 s.62in relation to interest on tax charged by assessments issued after1August1980.

F374 See Finance Act 1989 s. 158—subs. (4)ceases to have effect in respect of assessments relating to an accounting period beginning on or after a day to be appointed.

F375 Finance Act 1972 s.111andSch.24 para.10for1973—74et seq.

F376 Added byFinance (No.2) Act 1975 s.46(3)(b)in relation to tax charged by assessments notices of which were issued after31July1975.

F377 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.15(4)—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C55 S. 87(1)(7)(8) applied (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.11(10)

[87A F378 Interest on overdue corporation tax etc. U.K.

(1) Corporation tax shall carry interest at the [F379 rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989]] from the date when the tax becomes due and payable (in accordance with section [F380 10] of the principal Act) until payment.

(2) Subsection (1) above applies even if the date when the tax becomes due and payable (as mentioned in that subsection) is a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the M56 Bills of Exchange Act 1882.

(3) In relation to corporation tax assessed by virtue of section [F381 346(2) or 347(1) of the principal Act, section 267(3C) or 278(5) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970][F382 , section 96(8) of the Finance Act 1990] or section 87(4) of the M57 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (which enable unpaid corporation tax assessed on a company to be assessed on other persons in certain circumstances), the reference in subsection (1) above to the date when the tax becomes due and payable is a reference to the date when it became due and payable by the company.

(4) In any case where—

(a) there is in any accounting period of a company (in this subsection referred to as “the later period”) an amount of surplus advance corporation tax, as defined in subsection (3) of section [F383 239 of the principal Act], and

(b) pursuant to a claim under the said subsection (3), the whole or any part of that amount is treated for the purposes of the said section [F383 239] as discharging liability for an amount of corporation tax for an earlier accounting period (in this subsection referred to as “the earlier period”), and

(c) disregarding the effect of the said subsection (3), an amount of corporation tax for the earlier period would carry interest in accordance with this section,

then, in determining the amount of interest payable under this section on corporation tax unpaid for the earlier period, no account shall be taken of any reduction in the amount of that tax which results from the said subsection (3) except so far as concerns interest for any time after the date on which any corporation tax for the later period became due and payable (as mentioned in subsection (1) above).

(5) A sum assessed on a company by such an assessment as is referred to in [F384 section 252(5) of the principal Act] (recovery of payment of tax credit or interest on such a payment) shall carry interest at the [F385 rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989] from the date when the payment of tax credit or interest was made until the sum assessed is paid.

Textual Amendments

F378 S. 87A inserted by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51), ss.85, 95(2)(3)

F379 Finance Act 1989, s. 179(1)(b) and S.I. 1989/1298. Previously “prescribed rate”. And see S.I. 1989/1297 for regulations made, and interest rate set, under Finance Act 1989, s. 178

F380 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(4)(a). Previously “243(4)”

F381 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(4)(b). Previously “266(2), section 267(3C), section 277(1) or section 278(5) of the Taxes Act”.

F382 Finance Act 1990, s. 96(12)

F383 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(4)(c)(d). Previously “85 of the Finance Act 1972” and “85” respectively.

F384 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(4)(d). Previously “subsection (2) of section 102 of the Finance Act 1972”

F385 Finance Act 1989, s. 179(1)(b), S.I. 1989/1298. Previously “prescribed rate”. And see S.I. 1989/1297 for regulations made and interest rate set under Finance Act 1989, s. 178

Marginal Citations

M56 1882 c. 61.

M57 1979 c. 14.

88 Interest on tax recovered to make good loss due to taxpayer’s fault. [1960 s.58(1); 1962 s.26(1); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 8(2).] U.K.

(1) Where an assessment has been made for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to

[(a) a failure to give a notice, make a return or produce or furnish a document or other information required by or under the Taxes Acts, or

(b) an error in any information, return, accounts or other document delivered to an inspector or other officer of the Board F386 ,]

the tax charged by the assessment, or as the case may be such part thereof as corresponds to the part so attributable, [shall, if an inspector or the Board so determine, carry F387 ] interest at the [rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 F388 ] from the date on which the tax ought to have been paid until payment F389 .

M58 (2) This section shall not apply in relation to [F390 ] tax under Schedule [13 or 16 to the principal Act F391 ].

[(3) Where it is finally determined that any tax carries interest under this section, the tax shall carry no interest under section 86 or 86A above, (and, accordingly, any interest under either of those sections which has been paid before the final determination shall be set off against the amount of the interest under this section); and for the purposes of this subsection a determination that tax carries interest is not final until it can no longer be varied, whether by any Commissioners on appeal or by the order of any court F392 .]

M59 (4) The Board may at their discretion mitigate (whether before or after judgment) any interest due under this section and may stay or compound any proceedings for the recovery thereof.

M60 (5) For the purposes of this section thedate when tax ought to have been paid shall be taken to be—

(a) in the case of income tax, 1st January in the year of assessment for which the tax is charged, but subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) below,

(b) in the case of one-half of any income tax specified in section [5(2) F393 ] of the principal Act, the following 1st July,

[(c) in the case of any income tax specified in section [5(4) F393 ] of the principal Act, the following [1st December F394 ] F395 ,]

M61 (d) in the case of capital gains tax, [1st December F394 ] in the year of assessment next following the year for which the tax is charged,

M62 (e) in the case of corporation tax, the date nine months from the end of the accounting period for which the tax is charged F396 F397 . . . F398

(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F399

[(6) Tax charged by an assessment mentioned in subsection (1) above shall carry interest from the date when it ought to have been paid even if that date was a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 F400 .]

(7) In paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above the reference to a failure to do something includes, in relation to anything required to be done at a particular time or within a particular period, a reference to a failure to do it at that time or within that period; and, accordingly, section 118(2) of this Act shall not apply for the purposes of that paragraph F401 .] F402

Textual Amendments

F386 Finance Act 1989 s. 159(2)in relation to failures occurring, and errors in any information or documents delivered, on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“the fraud, wilful default or neglect of any person,”.

F387 Finance Act 1989 s. 160(1).Previously

“shall carry”.

F388 Finance Act 1989 s. 179(1)(b)(i)and S.I. 1989 No. 1298from 18 August 1989. Previously

“prescribed rate”.And see S.I. 1989 No. 1297for regulations made, and interest rate set, under s. 178.See also Table I Vol. 1for rates of interest.

F389 SeeFinance Act 1984 Sch.14 para.2(3)(b)—Finance Act 1984 Sch.14not have effect to allow postponement of capital gains tax carrying interest by virtue ofs.88(1),unless the interest by reason of neglect of any person and that neglect is remedied before1July1985.

F390 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(4)(a)for wording to be inserted for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

F391 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32previously amended by Finance Act 1972 s.111andSch.24 para.11.

F392 Finance Act 1989 s. 161.Previously

“(3) Tax carrying interest under this section shall not carry interest under section 86(a) above.”

(a)

Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.22. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F393 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32

F394 Finance Act 1980 s.61(4)for1980—81et seq.

F395 Finance Act 1971 ss.37and38andSch.6 para.87for1973—74et seq.

F396 Subs. (e)omitted by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(4)for accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

F397 SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(5)—s.88applied to certain proceedings for the recovery of excessive overspill relief underFinance Act 1965 s.84 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).

F398 Words repealed by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 844and Sch. 31See 1987edition for text.

F399 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.22 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F400 Finance (No.2) Act 1975 s.46(4)in relation to tax charged by assessments where notices issued after31July1975.

F401 Finance Act 1989 s. 159(3)in relation to failures occuring, and errors in any information or documents delivered, on or after 27 July 1989.

F402 See—Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para. 7(3)(c)—application of s. 88to sums claimed under s. 266(5)(b)to which the claimant was not entitled.Finance Act 1989 s. 57(3)—application of s. 88to medical insurance relief.

Marginal Citations

M58 1967 Sch.XI 10(3), 12(3).

M59 1960

s.58(7).

M60 1960

s.58(2).

M61 1969

Sch.XX 14(5).

M62 1966

Sch.VI 8(2).

88A [Determinations under section 88. U.K.

(1) Notice of a determination under section 88 above shall be served on the person liable to pay the interest to which it relates and shall specify—

(a) the date on which it is issued,

(b) the amount of the tax which carries interest and the assessment by which that tax was charged,

(c) the date when for the purposes of section 88 above that tax ought to have been paid, and

(d) the time within which an appeal against the determination may be made.

(2) After the notice of a determination under section 88 above has been served the determination shall not be altered except in accordance with this section.

(3) A determination under section 88 above may be made at any time—

(a) within six years after the end of the chargeable period for which the tax carrying the interest is charged (or, in the case of development land tax, of the financial year in which the liability for that tax arose), or

(b) within three years after the date of the final determination of the amount of that tax.

(4) An appeal may be brought against a determination under section 88 above and, subject to the following provisions of this section, the provisions of this Act relating to appeals shall have effect in relation to an appeal against such a determination as they have effect in relation to an appeal against an assessment to tax.

(5) On an appeal against a determination under section 88 above section 50(6) to (8) of this Act shall not apply but the Commisioners may—

(a) if it appears to them that the tax carries no interest under that section, set the determination aside,

(b) if the determination appears to them to be correct, confirm the determination, or

(c) if the determination appears to them to be incorrect as to the amount of tax or the date on which the tax ought to have been paid, revise the determination accordingly F403 .]

Textual Amendments

F403 Finance Act 1989 s. 160(2).

89 The prescribed rate of interest. [1952 s.495(1); 1960 s.58(1); 1967 s.40(1)(3)(6); S.I. 1969/535.] U.K.

[(1) For the purposes of any provision of this Part of this Act and of section [826 of the principal Act F404 ] “the prescribed rate” means such rate as may for the time being be prescribed for the purposes of the provision in question by order made by the Treasury F405 .]

M63 (2) [The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by F405 ] statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament, [and any such order may be framed either so as to prescribe a single rate F405 ] for the purposes of all the provisions of this Part of this Act, or so as to prescribe different rates for different purposes F406 .

(3) [Any rate of interest prescribed by order under this section F407 ] shall apply to interest for periods beginning on or after the date when the order is expressed to come into force, whether or not interest runs from before that date. F408 F409

Textual Amendments

F404 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F405 Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 89(1):Previously

“(1) In this Part of this Act “the prescribed rate” means—(a) for the purposes of sections 86(a) and 87 above, the rate specified in column 2 of the Table below,(b) for the purposes of section 88 above, the rate specified in column 3 of the Table below. The references in column 1 of this Table to any period before or after a specified date apply whether or not interest continues to run after that period, or, as the case may be, runs from before that period.”, “The Treasury may, by order in a”

and

“from time to time increase or decrease any rate or rates of interest prescribed by subsection (1) above, either”

respectively.

For orders see Part III Vol. 5under

“Interest on unpaid tax” and “Interest on unpaid tax and repayment supplement”.

(a)

Amendments in relation to development land tax added by Development Land Tax Act 1976 Sch. 8 para. 23. 1976 Act repealed by Finance Act 1985 s. 98(6)and Sch. 27 Part X.

F406 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 paras.1(1)and15—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modifications in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F407 Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 89(3).Previously

“Any variation of the rate of interest prescribed under subsection (2) above”

F408 See Finance Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 3(4)—payments on account of tax by underwriters.

F409 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 178(7)and Sch. 17 Part Xfrom a day to be appointed.

Marginal Citations

M63 1967

40(2).

90 Disallowance of relief for interest on tax. [1952 s.495(4); 1960 s.58(4); 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XV 8; 1966 Sch.VI 8(2).] U.K.

Interest payable under this Part of this Act F410 shall be paid without any deduction of income tax and shall not be allowed as a deduction in computing any income, profits or losses for any tax purposes. F411 F412

Textual Amendments

F410 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 paras.1(1)and15—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modifications in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F411 See Finance Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 3(4)—payments on account of tax by underwriters.

F412 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 19A para. 3as substituted by S.I. 1990 No. 2524.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C56 S. 90 applied (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 173, Sch. 19 Pt. II para.11(5)

91 Effect on interest of reliefs. [1952 s.496; 1960 s.58(4); 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XV 8; 1967 Sch.XI 14(5).] U.K.

(1) Where any amount of interest is payable under section 86 or section 88 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 those provisions in relation to the assessment, as are necessary to secure that the total sum, if any, paid or payable under those provisions in relation to the assessment is the same as it would have been if the tax discharged had never been charged.

[F413 (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) of this Act.]

(2) [F414 ] Where relief from tax F415 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.

[F416 (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 [F417 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.

M64 (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—

(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F418

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

(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F418

(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 [or

(c) affecting tax charged at a rate other than the basic rate on income from which tax has been deducted (otherwise than under section [203 F419 ] of the principal Act) or is treated as having been deducted, unless it is a relief from the tax so charged F420 ].

M65 (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 F421 .

Textual Amendments

F413 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).

F414 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 19A para. 3as substituted by S.I. 1990 No. 2524.

F415 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.

F416 S. 91(2A) added (23.7.1987 with effect with respect to accounting periods ending after 30.9.1993) by 1987 c. 51, s. 85(6)(7); S.I. 1992/3066, art.2(2)(a).

F417 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para. 10(6). Previously “90 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987”.

F418 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37, 38, Sch.6 para.88andSch.14 Part II.

F419 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F420 Finance Act 1971 ss.37, 38andSch.6 para.88with effect for1973—74et seq.

F421 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.109—application ofs.91in relation to tax underFinance Act 1970 ss.286, 288and289.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s.306—s.91not to apply to business expansion scheme relief.

Marginal Citations

M64 1969

Sch.XX 1(1).

M65 1969

Sch.XX 14(4).

91 Effect on interest of reliefs. [1952 s.496; 1960 s.58(4); 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XV 8; 1967 Sch.XI 14(5).] U.K.

(1) Where any amount of interest is payable under section 86 or section 88 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 those provisions in relation to the assessment, as are necessary to secure that the total sum, if any, paid or payable under those provisions in relation to the assessment is the same as it would have been if the tax discharged had never been charged.

[(1A) F548 .]

(2) [F549 ] Where relief from tax F550 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.

[(2A) F548 .]

M80 (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—

(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F551

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

(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F551

(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 [or

(c) affecting tax charged at a rate other than the basic rate on income from which tax has been deducted (otherwise than under section [203 F552 ] of the principal Act) or is treated as having been deducted, unless it is a relief from the tax so charged F553 ].

M81 (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 F554 .

Textual Amendments

F548 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(5)(6)and Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 10(6)for wording to be inserted with effect with respect to accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.

F549 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 19A para. 3as substituted by S.I. 1990 No. 2524.

F550 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.

F551 Words omitted repealed for1973—74et seq. byFinance Act 1971 ss.37, 38, Sch.6 para.88andSch.14 Part II.

F552 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F553 Finance Act 1971 ss.37, 38andSch.6 para.88with effect for1973—74et seq.

F554 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.109—application ofs.91in relation to tax underFinance Act 1970 ss.286, 288and289.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s.306—s.91not to apply to business expansion scheme relief.

Marginal Citations

M80 1969

Sch.XX 1(1).

M81 1969

Sch.XX 14(4).

91A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F422 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F422 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.25 Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

92 Remission in certain cases of interest on tax in arrear by reason of exchange restrictions. [1952 s.497; 1965 Sch.X 1(1), Sch.XV 8.] U.K.

(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect where the Board are satisfied as respects any tax carrying interest under section 86 F423 of this Act—

(a) that the tax is in respect of income or chargeable gains arising in a country outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) that, as the result of action of the government of that country, it is impossible for the income or gains to be remitted to the United Kingdom, and

(c) that having regard to the matters aforesaid and to all the other circumstances of the case it is reasonable that the tax should for the time being remain uncollected,

and the Board allow the tax to remain uncollected accordingly.

(2) Interest on the said tax shall, subject to subsection (3) below, cease to run under the said section 86 F423 as from the date on which the Board were first in possession of the information necessary to enable them to be satisfied as aforesaid and, if the said date is not later than three months from the time when the tax became due and payable, the interest thereon under the said section 86 F423 in respect of the period before the said date shall be remitted.

(3) Where, under subsection (2) above, interest has ceased to run on any tax and thereafter demand is made by the collector or other proper officer for payment of all or any of that tax, interest under the said section 86 F423 shall again begin to run from the date of the demand in respect of the amount demanded:

Provided that where all or any part of the amount demanded is paid not later than three months from the date of the demand, the interest under the said section 86 F423 on the amount so paid running from the date of the demand shall be remitted.

Textual Amendments

F423 See—Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 86(3)—references to s. 86 include reference to Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s. 87Afor accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed.Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 10(2)—reference to s. 86 to include a reference to Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 5 para. 3(4)—interest on underwriters liabilities.

PART X F424 U.K. PENALTIES, ETC.

Textual Amendments

F424 SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)—regulations underFinance Act 1965 s.84(7)may apply any provisions ofFinance Act 1960 Part III (nowTaxes Management Act 1970 Part X)in relation to penalties underpara.23and recovery of relief underFinance Act 1965 s.84 (overspill relief),subject to modifications, etc. For regulations, seePart III Vol.5.).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C57 Part X (ss. 93-107) applied (with modifications) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 16(1)(b), 177(4), Sch. 2

C58 Part X (ss 93-107) applied (27.7.1993 with effect in relation to the year 1993-94 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 122(2)(3)

93 Failure to make return for income tax or capital gains tax. [1960 s.46(1), Sch.VI column 1; 1964(M) 7(8); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) If any person has been required by a notice served under or for the purposes of section 8 or [8A or 9 of this Act or any F425 ] of those sections as extended by section 12 of this Actor section[284(4) F426 ] of the principal Act (husband and wifeF427 )) to deliver any return, and he fails to comply with the notice he shall be liable, subject to the provisions of this section—

[(a) to a penalty not exceeding £300, and

(b) if the failure continues after a penalty is imposed under paragraph (a) above, to a further penalty or penalties not exceeding £60 for each day on which the failure continues after the day on which the penalty under paragraph (a) above was imposed (but excluding any day for which a penalty under this paragraph has already been imposed) F428 .] F429 .

[(2) If a failure by a person to comply with a notice such as is referred to in subsection (1) above continues after the end of the year of assessment following that during which it was served then, without prejudice to any penalty under subsection (1) above, he shall be liable to a penalty of an amount not exceeding so much of the tax with which he is charged (whether for one or for more than one year of assessment) in assessments—

(a) based wholly or partly on any income or chargeable gains that ought to have been included in the return required by the notice, and

(b) made after the end of the year next following the year of assessment in which the notice was served,

as is attributable to the income or chargeable gains that ought to have been so included F428 .] F429

M66 (3) Where in any year of assessment any amount was deducted from the said person’s emoluments under section [203 F426 ] of the principal Act (pay as you earn), and that amount exceeds the total amount (if any) charged in any assessments under Schedule E made on him for that year before the end of the year of assessment next following that in which the said notice was served, the amount of excess shall be treated, for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, as reducing the amount of the tax charged in assessments under Schedule E made on him for the first-mentioned year after the end of the said following year.

M67 (4) [In relation to areturn required for the purposes of section 9 of this Act the reference in subsection (2) above to tax F430 ] does not include any tax not chargeable in the partnership name, and in relation to a person’s failure to deliver any other return it does not include tax assessed in the name of a partnership on so much of the profits or gains assessed as falls to be included in the total income of any other person.

[(5) No penalty shall be imposed under subsection (1) above in respect of a failure at any time after the failure has been remedied F431 .]

M68 (6) Where a person is liableto more than one penalty of an amount determined under subsection (2) above, any assessment taken into account for the purposes of one of those penalties shall be left out of account for the purposes of the other or others.

[(7) If the person on whom a notice is served proves that there was no income or chargeable gain to be included in the return, the penalty under this section shall not exceed £100 F432 .]

(8) references in this section[[1960 s.63(5); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).]] to the amount of tax with which a person is charged for any year of assessment and to assessments made on him include, in the case of a person who has died, references to any amount with which his personal representatives are charged for that year and to assessments made on them.

Textual Amendments

F425 Finance Act 1990 s. 90(3)where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be, given after 5 April 1990. Previously

“9 of this Act (or either”.

F426 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F427 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148and Sch. 14 Part VIIIfor 1990-91and subsequent years.

F428 Finance Act 1989 s. 162(2), (3)in relation to any failure to comply with a notice served on or after 6 April 1989. Previously

“(a) to a penalty not exceeding, except in the case mentioned in subsection (2) below, £50, and (b) if the failure continues after it has been declared by the court or Commissioners before whom proceedings for the penalty have been commenced, to a further penalty not exceeding £10 for each day on which the failure so continues”

in subs. (1)and

“(2) If the failure continues after the end of the year of assessment following that during which the notice was served, the penalty under subsection (1)(a) above shall be an amount not exceeding the aggregate of £50 and the total amount of the tax with which the said person is charged (whether for one or for more than one year of assessment) in assessments— (a) based wholly or partly on any income or chargeable gains that ought to have been included in the return required by the notice, and (b) made after the end of the year next following the year of assessment in which the said notice was served.”

in subs. (2).

F429 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 35and Sch. 3 paras. 27and 28—married couples.

F430 Finance Act 1971 ss.37, 38andSch.6 para.89with effect for1973—74et seq.

F431 Finance Act 1989 s. 162(4)in relation to any failure to comply with a notice served on or after 6 April 1989. Previously

“(5) Except in the case mentioned in subsection (2) above, a person shall not be liable to any penalty incurred under this section for a failure to comply with any notice, if the failure is remedied before proceedings for the recovery of the penalty are commenced.”

F432 Finance Act 1989 s. 162(5)in relation to any failure to comply with a notice served on or after 6 April 1989. Previously

“(7) If the defendant (or, in Scotland, the defender) in proceedings under this section proves that there was no income and no chargeable gains to be included in the return, the penalty shall not exceed £5.”

Marginal Citations

M66 1960

s.46(3).

M67 1960 s.46(4).

M68 1960 s.46(6); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).

[94 F433 Failure to make return for corporation tax. U.K.

(1) If a company has been required by a notice served under section 11 of this Act (or under that section as extended by section 12 of this Act) to deliver a return for any period (in this section referred to as “the return period”) and the company fails to make proper delivery of the return, then, subject to subsections (3) and (5) below, the company shall be liable to a penalty which,—

(a) if the return is delivered before the expiry of the period of three months beginning on the day following the final day for the delivery of the return, shall be £100; and

(b) in any other case, shall be £200.

(2) In relation to a return required by such a notice as is referred to in subsection (1) above,—

(a) any reference in this section (however expressed) to the delivery of the return is a reference to its delivery together with the accompanying accounts, statements and reports referred to in section 11(1) of this Act; and

(b) any reference in this section to making proper delivery of the return is a reference to the delivery of the return on or before the day which (in accordance with section 11(4) of this Act) is the final day for the delivery of the return.

(3) In a case where—

(a) a company is required to deliver a return for a return period, and

(b) the return period is a period for which, under the M69 Companies Act 1985, the company is required to deliver accounts to the Registrar of Companies,

the company shall not be liable to a penalty under subsection (1) above by reason of a failure to make proper delivery of the return if the return is delivered on or before the day which is the last day for the delivery to the Registrar of the accounts referred to in paragraph (b) above.

(4) In the application of this section to a company registered in Northern Ireland, the reference in subsection (3) above to the Companies Act 1985 shall be construed as a reference to the M70 Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 and references to the Registrar of Companies shall be construed accordingly.

(5) In any case where—

(a) a company is within the charge to corporation tax for three consecutive accounting periods, each of which is a return period, and

(b) at no time between the beginning of the first of those periods and the end of the last is the company outside the charge to corporation tax, and

(c) the company fails to make proper delivery of the return for the third of those periods, and

(d) the company was liable to a penalty under this section in respect of each of the first two of those periods,

subsection (1) above shall have effect in relation to the failure referred to in paragraph (c) above as if for “£100” there were substituted “£500” and for “£200” there were substituted “£1,000”.

(6) If a company which has been required as mentioned in subsection (1) above to deliver a return fails to deliver the return before the expiry of the period of eighteen months beginning on the day following the last day of the return period, then (without prejudice to any penalty under the preceding provisions of this section) the company shall be liable to a penalty which,—

(a) if the return is delivered before the expiry of the period of two years beginning on the day following that last day, shall be 10 per cent. of the tax unpaid at the end of the eighteen months referred to above; and

(b) in any other case, shall be 20 per cent. of the tax unpaid at the end of those eighteen months.

(7) In subsection (6) above “the tax unpaid” at any time means the amount by which the corporation tax chargeable on the profits of the company for the return period which then remains unpaid exceeds any income tax borne by deduction from payments included in those profits.

(8) In determining for the purposes of subsection (7) above how much of the corporation tax chargeable on the profits of a company for the return period remains unpaid at any time, no account shall be taken of the discharge of any liability for that tax which, pursuant to a claim under subsection (3) of [F434 section 239(3) of the principal Act]], is attributable to an amount of surplus advance corporation tax, as defined in that subsection, unless it is a surplus for an accounting period ending not later than two years after the end of the return period.

Textual Amendments

F433 S. 94 substituted (23.7.1987 with respect to failures to deliver returns required by notices served under s. 11 after the day to be appointed) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 83), s. 83

F434 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 844, Sch. 29 para 10(7)

Marginal Citations

M69 1985 c. 6.

M70 S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6).

95 Incorrect return or accounts for income tax or capital gains tax. [1960 s.47(1), Sch.VI; 1964(M) s.7(8); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).] U.K.

(1) Where a person fraudulently or negligently—

(a) delivers any incorrect return of a kind mentioned in section 8 or [8A or 9 of this Act (or any F435 ] of those sections as extended by section 12 of this Actor section [284(4) F436 ]of the principal Act (husband and wifeF437 )), or

(b) makes any incorrect return, statement, or declaration in connection with any claim for any allowance, deduction or relief in respect of income tax or capital gains tax, or

(c) submits to an inspector or the Board or any Commissioners any incorrect accounts in connection with the ascertainment of his liability to income tax or capital gains tax,

he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [the amount of the difference specified in subsection (2) below F438 .] F439

F440 M71 (2) The difference is thatbetween—

(a) the amount of income tax and capital gains tax payable for the relevant years of assessment by the said person (including any amount of income tax deducted at source and not repayable F441 ), and

(b) the amount which would have been the amount so payable if the return, statement, declaration or accounts as made or submitted by him had been correct F440 .

M72 (3) The relevant years of assessment for the purposes of this section are, in relation to anything delivered, made or submitted in any year of assessment, that, the next following, and any preceding year of assessment; and the references in subsection (2) to the amount of income tax payable [do not, in relation to anything done in connection with a partnership F442 ], include any income tax not chargeable in the partnership name F443 .

Textual Amendments

F435 Finance Act 1990 s. 90(4)where a notice to deliver a return was, or falls to be, given after 5 April 1990. Previously

“9 of this Act (or either”.

F436 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 32.

F437 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 148and Sch. 14 Part VIIIfor 1990-91and subsequent years.

F438 Finance Act 1989 s. 163(1)(a)in relation to returns, statements, declarations or accounts delivered, made or submitted on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“the aggregate of—(i) £50, and (ii) the amount, or, in the case of fraud, twice the amount, of the difference specified in subsection (2) below.”

F439 See S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 11(3)and S.I. 1989 No. 469 regn. 9—application of s. 95to individual applications to subscribe to personal equity plans.

F440 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 35and Sch. 3 paras. 27and28—married couples.

F441 See S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 23(4)—amounts deducted under S.I. 1986 No. 1948 regn. 23(3)to be treated as amounts of income tax deducted at source and not repayable within the meaning of and for the purposes of s. 95(2)(a)

F442 Finance Act 1971 ss.37, 38andSch.6 para.90for1973—74et seq.

F443 See—Finance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(4)—ss.95and97applied for purposes ofFinance Act 1966 Sch.6 para.23 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 14 para. 7(3)(d)—application of s. 95to sums claimed under s. 266(5)(b)to which the claimant was not entitled.Finance Act 1989 s. 57(3)—application of s. 95(3)to medical insurance relief.

Marginal Citations

M71 1960 s.48(1); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).

M72 1960 s.48(2); 1965 Sch.X 1(1).

96 Incorrect return or accounts for corporation tax. [1966 Sch.VI 4.] U.K.

(1) Where a company fraudulently or negligently—

(a) delivers any incorrect return under section 11 of this Act (or under that section as extended by section 12 of this Act), or

(b) makes any incorrect return, statement or declaration in connection with any claim for any allowance, deduction or relief in respect of corporation tax, or

(c) submits to an inspector or any Commissioners any incorrect accounts in connection with the ascertainment of the company’s liability to corporation tax,

the company shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [the amount of the difference specified in subsection (2) below F444 .]

(2) The difference is that between—

(a) the amount of corporation tax payable by the said company for the accounting period or accounting periods comprising the period to which the return, statement, declaration or accounts relate, and

(b) the amount which would have been the amount so payable if the return, statement, declaration or accounts had been correct. F445

Textual Amendments

F444 Finance Act 1989 s. 163(1)(b)in relation to returns, statements, declarations or accounts delivered, made or submitted on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“the aggregate of—(i) £50, and (ii) the amount, or, in the case of fraud, twice the amount, of the difference specified in subsection (2) below.”

F445 See also Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) ss. 131-132—tax payable by migrating companies.

97 Incorrect return or accounts: supplemental. [1960 ss.47(3), 48(3); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 4(3).] U.K.

(1) Where any such return, statement, declaration or accounts as are mentioned in section 95 and 96 above were made or submitted by any person neither fraudulently nor negligently and it comes to his notice (or, if he has died, to the notice of his personal representatives) that they were incorrect, then, unless the error is remedied without unreasonable delay, the return, statement, declaration or accounts shall be treated for the purposes of those sections as having been negligently made or submitted by him. F446

(2) For the purposes of sections 95 and 96 above, any accounts submitted on behalf of any person shall be deemed to have been submitted by him unless he proves that they were submitted without his consent or connivance F447 . F448

Textual Amendments

F446 See S.I. 1986 No. 1948 (in Part III Vol. 5) regn. 33(4)and S.I. 1989 No. 469 regn. 28(4)—s. 97(1)to apply to S.I. 1986 No. 1948(personal equity plan regulations) with certain modifications.

F447 See also Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) ss. 131-132—tax payable by migrating companies.

F448 See Finance Act 1966 s. 27and Sch. 6 para. 23(4)—ss. 95and 97applied for purposes of Finance Act 1966 Sch. 6 para. 23 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).

97A [Two or more tax-geared penalties in respect of the same tax. U.K.

Where two or more penalties—

(a) are incurred by any person and fall to be determined by reference to any income tax or capital gains tax with which he is chargeable for a year of assessment; or

(b) are incurred by any company and fall to be determined by reference to any corporation tax with which it is chargeable for an accounting period,

each penalty after the first shall be so reduced that the aggregate amount of the penalties, so far as determined by reference to any particular part of the tax, does not exceed whichever is or, but for this section, would be the greater or greatest of them, so far as so determined F449 .]

Textual Amendments

F449 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 129—s. 97A(a)to have effect for the year 1988-89 and subsequent years, and s. 97A(b) to have effect for accounting periods ending after 31st March 1989.

98 Special returns, etc. [1960 s.46(1).] U.K.

(1) [Subject to [the provisions of this section and F450 ] section 98A below, where F451 ] any person—

(a) has been required, by a notice served under or for the purposes of any of the provisions specified in the first column of theTable below, to deliver any return or other document, to furnish any particulars, to produce any document, or to make anything available for inspection, and he fails to comply with the notice, or

(b) fails to furnish any information, give any certificate or produce any document or record in accordance with any of the provisions specified in the second column of the Table below,

he shall be liable, subject to [subsections (3) and (4) below—

(i) to a penalty not exceeding £300, and

(ii) if the failure continues after a penalty is imposed under paragraph (i) above, to a further penalty or penalties not exceeding £60 for each day on which the failure continues after the day on which the penalty under paragraph (i) above was imposed (but excluding any day for which a penalty under this paragraph has already been imposed) F451 ].

M73 (2) [Subject to section 98A below, where F452 ] a person fraudulently or negligently furnishes, gives, produces or makes any incorrect information, certificate, document, record or declaration of a kind mentioned in any of the provisions specified in either column of the Table below, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [£3000 F452 ].

[(3) No penalty shall be imposed under subsection (1) above in respect of a failure within paragraph (a) of that subsection at any time after the failure has been remedied.

(4) No penalty shall be imposed under paragraph (ii) of subsection (1) above in respect of a failure within paragraph (b) of that subsection at any time after the failure has been remedied F453 .] F454

[(5) In the case of a failure to comply with section 765A(2)(a) or (b) of the principal Act, subsection (1) above shall have effect as if for “£300” there were substituted “£3000” and as if for “£60” there were substituted “£600”F455 .]

TABLE

1.	2.
Part III of this Act,except sections 16and 24(2) F456	In the principal Act—
Section 51 of this Act	[section 38(5)F457 ]
In the principal Act—	section 41(2);
section 38(5) F457 ;	[section 42 F457 ]
section 42 F457 ;	section 124(3);
section 181(1);	section 136(6);
regulations under section 202;	section 139(5)or (6); F458
section 217;	section 148(7);
section 226(3) and (4);	section 180(1);
section 234(7)(b), (8) and (9);	regulations under section 202;
section 250(6) and (7);	regulations under section 203;
section 272(7);	section 216;
section 310(4) and (5);	section 226(1) and (2);
[regulations under section 326C F459 ]	section 234(5), (6) and (7)(a);
regulations under section 333;	section 250(1) to (5);
regulations under section 476(1);	section 310(1), (2) and (3);
[regulations under section 477A F460 ]	section 313(5);
section 481(5)(k) F461 ]	[Regulations under section 326C F459 ]
section 482(3);	Regulations under section 333;
regulations under section 482(11);	section 350(1);
section 483;	section 375(5);
Regulations under section 555(7);	regulations under section 476(1);
section 561(8);	[regulations under section 477A F460 ;]
section 588(7);	[section 482(2) F462 ]
regulations under section 602;	regulations under section 482(11);
section 605(1),(2),(3)(b) and (4);	section 552;
regulations under section 612(3);	regulations under section 555(7);
regulations under section 639;	regulations under section 566(1) or (2);
section 652;	section 577(4);
section 669;	section 588(6);
section 680;	regulations under section 602;
section 700(4);	section 605(3)(a);
section 708;	regulations under section 612(3);
section 728;	regulations under section 639;
section 729(11);	[section 765A(2)(a) F463 ;]
section 730(8);	section 772(6);
section 737(8);	Schedule 3, paragraph 6;
section 745(1);	Schedule 13;
section 755;	regulations under paragraph 7 of Schedule 14;
[section 765A(2)(b) F463 ;]	Schedule 15, paragraph 14(4);
section 768(9);	Schedule 16;
section 772(1) and (3);	Schedule 22, paragraph 2.
section 774(5);	Regulations under section 149D of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979.
section 778;	[Sections 23(2), 48 and 49(2) of the Capital Allowances Act 1990 F464 .]
section 815;	Regulations 16 and 17 of the Income Tax (Interest Relief) Regulations 1982.
Schedule 3, paragraph 13(1);	Paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Act 1984.
Schedule 5, paragraph 10;	Paragraph 10 of Schedule 16 to the Finance Act 1986 F465
Schedule 9, [paragraph 6 F466 ];	[Section 85(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1988 F467 ]
Schedule 15 paragraph 14(5);	[Regulations under section 57 of the Finance Act 1989 F468 .]
Schedule 19,paragraph 17 F469	[section 94(1) of the Finance Act 1990 F470 ]
Schedule 22, paragraph 4.
Section 32 of the Finance Act 1973.
Paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 to the Finance Act 1973.
Regulations under section 149D of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979.
Paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 1 to the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979.
[Sections 23(4) and 49(4) of the Capital Allowances Act 1990 F471 ]
Section 84 of the Finance Act 1981.
Paragraph 15(1) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Act 1984.
Paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 22 to the Finance Act 1985.
[Paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 1988 F472 ].
[Regulations under section 57 of the Finance Act 1989 F473 ]
[Section 73 of the Finance Act 1989 F474 ]
[Paragraphs 2 to 4 of Schedule 12 to the Finance Act 1989 F468 ]
[section 39 of the Finance Act 1990 F475 ]

The references in this Table to regulations under section 602 have effect only for the purpose of giving effect to any provision mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of that section F476 ]

Textual Amendments

F450 Finance Act 1990 s. 68(3)(a)for transactions carried out on or after 1 July 1990.

F451 Finance Act 1989 s. 164(2), (7)in relation to failures beginning, or information etc. furnished, on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“Where”

and

“subsection (3) below—(i) to a penalty not exceeding £50, and (ii) if the failure continues after it has been declared by the Court, or Commissioners before whom proceedings for the penalty have been commenced, to a further penalty not exceeding £10 for each day on which the failure so continues.”

respectively.

F452 Finance Act 1989 s. 164(3), (7)in relation to failures beginning, or information etc. furnished, on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“Where”

and

“£250, or, in the case of fraud, £500”

respectively.

F453 Finance Act 1989 s. 164(4), (7)in relation to failures beginning, or information etc. furnished, on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“A person shall not be liable to any penalty incurred under this section for a failure to comply with any notice, if the failure is remedied before proceedings for the recovery of the penalty are commenced”.

F454 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s. 53(1)—s. 98(3)not applicable where penalty under s. 51 or 52 awarded summarily.Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s. 119and Sch. 4 para. 10—application of s. 98 in relation to repealed provisions.Oil Taxation Act 1975 s. 1and Sch. 2 para. 1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modifications relating to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum tax.Finance Act 1981 s. 134and Sch. 17 para. 18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14) Sch. 1 para. 5(2)—s. 98applied in relation to regulations made under Social Security Act 1975 Sch. 1 para. 5(1)as they apply in relation to regulations made under Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 s. 204 (now Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 203) Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 (c. 15) Sch. 1 para. 5(2)—s. 98applied in relation to regulations made under Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 Sch. 1 para. 5(1)as they apply in relation to regulations made under Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 s. 204 (now Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 203).

F455 Finance Act 1990 s. 68(3)(b)for transactions carried out on or after 1 July 1990.

F456 Words repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 164(5)(a)and 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIin relation to any failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989.

F457 Entries transferred to column 1 from column 2 by Finance Act 1989 s. 164(5)(b)in relation to any failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989.

F458 Repealed by Finance Act 1988 s. 148and Sch. 14 Part VIin relation to acquisitions on or after 26 October 1987.

F459 Finance Act 1990 s. 28(2).

F460 Finance Act 1990 s. 30and Sch. 5 para. 15.

F461 Words repealed by Finance Act 1989 ss. 164(5)(c)and 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIin relation to any failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989.

F462 Finance Act 1989 s. 164(5)(c)in relation to any failure to comply with a notice etc. on or after 27 July 1989.

F463 Finance Act 1990 s. 68(3)(c), (d)respectively.

F464 Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 164and Sch. 1 para. 1(3).Previously

“67(2) of, and paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 12 to, the Finance Act 1980”.

F465 Repealed by Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 164(4)and Sch. 2See 1989 edition for these provisions.

F466 Finance Act 1990 s. 89and Sch. 14 para. 15 (correction of errors)—deemed to have been made by the Taxes Act 1988.Previously

“paragraphs 6 and 25”.

F467 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 85(3).

F468 Finance Act 1989 s. 107and Sch. 12 para. 5.

F469 Repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part Von and after 27 July 1989.

F470 Finance Act 1990 s. 94(3).

F471 Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 164and Sch. 1 para. 1(2).Previously

“sections 67(4) of, and paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 12 to, the Finance Act 1980”.

F472 Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2)s. 109and Sch. 10 para. 7(2).

F473 Finance Act 1989 s. 57(2).

F474 Finance Act 1989 s. 73(9).

F475 Finance Act 1990 s. 39(9).

F476 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 29 para. 9.See 1987 edition for previous table and see Finance Act 1988 Sch. 14 Part VIfor repeal of reference to Schedule 12to the Finance Act 1972in that table in connection with acquisitions on or after 26 October 1987.

Marginal Citations

M73 1960

s. 47(2).

98A [Special penalties in the case of certain returns. U.K.

(1) Regulations under section 203(2) (PAYE) or 566(1) (sub-contractors) of the principal Act may provide that this section shall apply in relation to any specified provision of the regulations.

(2) Where this section applies in relation to a provision of regulations, any person who fails to make a return in accordance with the provision shall be liable—

(a) to a penalty or penalties of the relevant monthly amount for each month (or part of a month) during which the failure continues, but excluding any month after the twelfth or for which a penalty under this paragraph has already been imposed F477 , and

(b) if the failure continues beyond twelve months, without prejudice to any penalty under paragraph (a) above, to a penalty not exceeding so much of the amount payable by him in accordance with the regulations for the year of assessment to which the return relates as remained unpaid at the end of 19th April after the end of that year.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a) above, the relevant monthly amount in the case of a failure to make a return—

(a) where the number of persons in respect of whom particulars should be included in the return is fifty or less, is £100, and

(b) where the number is greater than fifty, is £100 for each fifty such persons and an additional £100 where that number is not a multiple of fifty.

(4) Where this section applies in relation to a provision of regulations, any person who fraudulently or negligently makes an incorrect return of a kind mentioned in the provision shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the difference between—

(a) the amount payable by him in accordance with the regulations for the year of assessment to which the return relates, and

(b) the amount which would have been so payable if the return had been correct F478 .] F479 F480

Textual Amendments

F477 See Finance Act 1989 s. 165(2)for change to subs. (2)(a) in the case of a failure to make a return before a day to be appointed.

F478 Finance Act 1989 s. 165(1).

F479 See—S.I. 1973 No. 334, regn. 30(8) (in Part III Vol. 5)—end of year return by employer; and regn. 51(9)—alternative procedure for direct collection.S.I. 1975 No. 1960, regn. 10 (in Part III Vol. 5)—end of year return by contractor.

F480 S. 98A,as modified by para. 5A of Sch. 1 of Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14)as inserted by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) Sch. 5),is applied to returns of contributions under regns. 30(7)and 51(10)of the Social Security (Contributions) Regns. 1979 (S.I. 1975 No. 591)(as inserted byS.I. 1990 No. 1935).For Northern Ireland see para. 5A of Sch. 1 Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975, art. 19(5)and Sch. 5 Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990and S.R. 1990 No. 350).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C59 S. 98A power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(9)-(12)

S. 98A power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(9)-(12)

S. 98A(2)(a) restricted (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(3)

S. 98A(2)(b)(4) modified (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(4)

C60 S. 98A applied (6.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/743, reg. 11(11)

C61 S. 98A applied (6.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/744, reg. 43(12)

C62 S. 98A applied (6.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/744, reg. 104(16)

98B European Economic Interest Groupings. Official Journal of the European Communities No. L199/1. U.K.

(1) In this section “grouping” means a European Economic Interest Grouping formed in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2137/85 of 25th July 1985, whether registered in Great Britain, in Northern Ireland or elsewhere.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, where a grouping or member of a grouping required by notice given under section 12A above to deliver a return or other document fails to comply with the notice, the grouping or member shall be liable—

(a) to a penalty not exceeding £300; and

(b) if the failure continues after a penalty is imposed under paragraph (a) above, to a further penalty or penalties not exceeding £60 for each day on which the failure continues after the day on which the penalty under paragraph (a) above was imposed (but excluding any day for which a penalty under this paragraph has already been imposed).

(3) No penalty shall be imposed under subsection (2) above in respect of a failure at any time after the failure has been remedied.

(4) If a grouping to which, or member to whom, a notice is given proves that there was no income or chargeable gain to be included in the return, the penalty under subsection (2) above shall not exceed £100.

(5) Where a grouping or member fraudulently or negligently delivers an incorrect return, accounts or statement, or makes an incorrect declaration in a return delivered, under section 12A above, the grouping or member shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3000 multiplied by the number of members of the grouping at the time of delivery F481 .]

Textual Amendments

F481 Finance Act 1990 s. 69and Sch. 11 para. 3(1)on and after 1 July 1989.

99 [Assisting in preparation of incorrect return, etc. U.K.

Any person who assists in or induces the preparation or delivery of any information, return, accounts or other document which—

(a) he knows will be, or is or are likely to be, used for any purpose of tax, and

(b) he knows to be incorrect,

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3,000 F482 .] F483

Textual Amendments

F482 Finance Act 1989 s. 166in relation to assistance and inducements occuring on or after 27 July 1989. Previously

“99. Any person who assists in or induces the making or delivery for any purposes of tax of any return or accounts which he knows to be incorrect shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £500(a).”

(a)

SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(3)—s.99applied to returns, etc., underFinance Act 1965 s.84 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).

F483 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application to the special tax on banking deposits.

Valid from 25/07/1991

[99A F484 Certificates of non-liability to income tax. U.K.

If a person who gives a certificate of non-liability to income tax in pursuance of regulations under section 477A of the principal Act (building societies) or section 480B of that Act (deposit-takers)—

(a) gives the certificate fraudulently or negligently, or

(b) fails to comply with any undertaking contained in the certificate in pursuance of the regulations,

he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3,000.]

Textual Amendments

F484 S. 99A inserted (25.7.1991) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 82

100 [Determination of penalties by officer of the Board. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below and except where proceedings for a penalty have been instituted under section 100D below or a penalty has been imposed by the Commissioners under section 53 of this Act, an officer of the Board authorised by the Board for the purposes of this section may make a determination imposing a penalty under any provision of the Taxes Acts and setting it at such amount as, in his opinion, is correct or appropriate.

(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply where the penalty is a penalty under—

(a) section 93(1) above as it has effect before the amendments made by section 162 of the Finance Act 1989 or section 93(1)(a) above as it has effect after those amendments,

(b) section 94(1) above as it has effect before the substitution made by section 83 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987,

(c) section 98(1) above as it has effect before the amendments made by section 164 of the Finance Act 1989 or section 98(1)(i) above as it has effect after those amendments, or

(d) paragraph (a)(i) of section 98A(2) above as it has effect by virtue of section 165(2) of the Finance Act 1989, [or

(e) section 98B(2)(a) above F485 ]

(3) Notice of a determination of a penalty under this section shall be served on the person liable to the penalty and shall state the date on which it is issued and the time within such an appeal against the determination may be made.

(4) After the notice of a determination under this section has been served the determination shall not be altered except in accordance with this section or on appeal.

(5) If it is discovered by an officer of the Board authorised by the Board for the purposes of this section that the amount of a penalty determined under this section is or has become insufficient the officer may make a determination in a further amount so that the penalty is set at the amount which, in his opinion, is correct or appropriate.

(6) In any case where—

(a) a determination under this section is of a penalty under section 94(6) above, and

(b) after the determination has been made it is discovered by an officer of the Board authorised by the Board for the purposes of this section that the amount which was taken into account as the relevant amount of tax is or has become excessive,

the determination shall be revised so that the penalty is set at the amount which is correct; and, where more than the correct amount has already been paid, the appropriate amount shall be repaid.

Textual Amendments

F485 Finance Act 1990 s. 69and Sch. 11 para. 3(1)on and after 1 July 1989.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C63 Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

S. 100 restricted (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(4)(b)

100A Provisions supplementary to section 100. U.K.

(1) Where a person who has incurred a penalty has died, a determination under section 100 above which could have been made in relation to him may be made in relation to his personal representatives, and any penalty imposed on personal representatives by virtue of this subsection shall be a debt due from and payable out of his estate.

(2) A penalty determined under section 100 above shall be due and payble at the end of the period of thirty days beginning with the date of the issue of the notice of the determination.

(3) A penalty determined under section 100 above shall for all purposes be treated as if it were charged in an assessment and due and payable.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C64 Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

100B Appeals against penalty determinations. U.K.

(1) An appeal may be brought against the determination of a penalty under section 100 above and, subject to the following provisions of this section, the provisions of this Act relating to appeals shall have effect in relation to an appeal against such a determination as they have effect in relation to an appeal against an assessment to tax.

(2) On an appeal against the determination of a penalty under section 100 above section 50(6) to (8) of this Act shall not apply but—

(a) in the case of a penalty which is required to be of a particular amount, the Commissioners may—

(i) if it appears to them that no penalty has been incurred, set the determination aside,

(ii) if the amount determined appears to them to be correct, confirm the determination, or

(iii) if the amount determined appears to them to be incorrect, increase or reduce it to the correct amount.

(b) in the case of any other penalty, the Commissioners may—

(i) if it appears to them that no penalty has been incurred, set the determination aside,

(ii) if the amount determined appears to them to be appropriate, confirm the determination,

(iii) if the amount determined appears to them to be excessive, reduce it to such other amount (including nil) as they consider appropriate, or

(iv) if the amount determined appears to them to be insufficient, increase it to such amount not exceeding the permitted maximum as they consider appropriate.

(3) Without prejudice to section 56 of this Act, an appeal from a decision of the Commissioners against the amount of a penalty which has been determined under section 100 above or this section shall lie, at the instance of the person liable to the penalty, to the High Court or, in Scotland to the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland; and on that appeal the court shall have the like jurisdiction as is conferred on the Commissioners by virtue of this section.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C65 Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

100C Penalty proceedings before Commissioners. U.K.

(1) An officer of the Board authorised by the Board for the purposes of this section may commence proceedings before the General or Special Commisioners for any penalty to which subsection (1) of section 100 above does not apply by virtue of subsection (2) of that section.

(2) Proceedings under this section shall be by way of information in writing, made to the Commissioners, and upon summons issued by them to the defendant (or defender) to appear before them at a time and place stated in the summons; and they shall hear and decide each case in a summary way.

(3) Any penalty determined by the Commissioners in proceedings under this section shall for all purposes be treated as if it were tax charged in an assessment and due and payable.

(4) An appeal against the determination of a penalty in proceedings under this section shall lie to the High Court or, in Scotland, the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland—

(a) by any party on a question of law, and

(b) by the defendant (or, in Scotland, the defender) against the amount of the penalty.

(5) On any such appeal the court may—

(a) if it appears that no penalty has been incurred, set the determination aside,

(b) if the amount determined appears to be appropriate, confirm the determination,

(c) if the amount determined appears to be excessive, reduce it to such other amount (including nil) as the court considers appropriate, or

(d) if the amount determined appears to be insufficient, increase it to such amount not exceeding the permitted maximum as the court considers appropriate.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C66 Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

100D Penalty proceedings before court. U.K.

(1) Where in the opinion of the Board the liability of any person for a penalty arises by reason of the fraud of that person or any other person, proceedings for the penalty may be instituted before the High Court or, in Scotland, the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

(2) Proceedings under this section which are not instituted (in England, Wales or Northern Ireland) under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 by and in the name of the Board as an authorised department for the purposes of that Act shall be instituted—

(a) in England and Wales, in the name of the Attorney General,

(b) in Scotland, in the name of the Lord Advocate, and

(c) in Northern Ireland, in the name of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.

(3) Any proceedings under this section instituted in England and Wales shall be deemed to be civil proceedings by the Crown within the meaning of Part II of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 and any such proceedings instituted in Northern Ireland shall be deemed to be civil proceedings within the meaning of that Part of that Act as for the time being in force in Northern Ireland.

(4) If in proceedings under this section the court does not find that fraud is proved but consider that the person concerned is nevertheless liable to a penalty, the court may determine a penalty notwithstanding that, but for the opinion of the Board as to fraud, the penalty would not have been a matter for the court F486 .]

Textual Amendments

F486 Finance Act 1989 s. 167.Previously

“100.—(1)Except as otherwise provided in this section, no proceedings shall be commenced against any person for the recovery of any penalty under the Taxes Acts except by order of the Board(a). (2) Any such proceedings which are not instituted (in England, Wales or Northern Ireland) under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 by and in the name of the Board as an authorised department for the purposes of that Act shall be instituted in the name of an officer, or—(a) in England and Wales, in the name of the Attorney General,(b) in Scotland, in the name of the Lord Advocate, and(c) in Northern Ireland, in the name of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland. (3)....(b) any such proceedings may, except as otherwise provided in the Taxes Acts, be commenced either before the General or(a) Special Commissioners, or (a) in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, in the High Court, (b) in Scotland, in the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland,and any proceedings commenced as mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be deemed to be civil proceedings by the Crown within the meaning of Part II of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 or, as the case may be, that Part as for the time being in force in Northern Ireland.(4)....(b) the inspector may, without an order of the Board, commence before the General Commissioners (or, in Northern Ireland, the Special Commissioners)(c) proceedings for a penalty incurred by any person under section 93(1) or section 98(1) of this Act for a failure to deliver, furnish or produce anything to the inspector; but in any proceedings so commenced the Commissioners shall not in any case award, in respect of the penalty under paragraph (a) of the said section 93(1), a sum exceeding £50(b).(5) Where the person who has incurred any penalty has died, any proceedings under this section which have been or could have been commenced against him may be continued or commenced against his personal representatives, and any penalty awarded in proceedings so continued or commenced shall be a debt due from and payable out of his estate; but nothing in this subsection shall extend the time for commencing proceedings against personal representatives.(6) Where any proceedings under this section are brought before any Commissioners, an appeal shall lie to the High Court(d) or, in Scotland, the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from their decision—(a) by any party, on a question of law, and(b) by the defendant (or, in Scotland, the defender) against the amount of any penalty awarded,and on any appeal under paragraph (b) above the court may either confirm the decision or reduce or increase the sum awarded.(7) Proceedings under this section before any Commissioners shall be by way of information in writing, made to them, and upon summons issued by them to the defendant (or defender) to appear before them at a time and place stated in the summons, and they shall hear and determine each case in a summary way; and any penalty awarded by them in such proceedings shall for all purposes be treated as if it were tax charged in an assessment and due and payable.(8) The Commissioners or the court before whom any proceedings for a penalty of a fixed amount are brought under this section may, if they think fit, give judgment for a less amount.(9) [The Secretary of State(e)] may, if he thinks fit, appoint some other person to act instead of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland in relation to any matters to which this section relates, and in that case the reference in this section to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland shall be construed as a reference to the person so appointed(f)

(g).[(10)—A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.26. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.]”

(a)

SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)andS.I. 1966 No.1191 regn.4(2) (inPart III Vol.5)—application of this subsection to proceedings for penalties for fraudulent or negligent claims underFinance Act 1965 s.84 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).

(b)

Words omitted relate to development land tax. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

(c)

Repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 135and s. 148and Sch. 14 Part IXfrom 3 April 1989—commencement order S.I. 1989 No. 473 (in Part III Vol. 5).

(d)

SeeR.S.C. Ord.91, (S.I. 1965 No. 1776under

“Appeals tribunals Supreme Court, Rules of”

inPart III Vol.5) r. 5as to procedure in the High Court in England and Wales.

(e)Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) s.40andSch.5 para.4(1).

(f)

SeeTaxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1,2) s.45(5)—two or more Special Commissioners to be a quorum for proceedings unders.100.

(g)

See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) Sch. 5 para. 10(5)—s. 100not to apply to certain penalties on underwriters' agents

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C67 Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 100-100D power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

101 Evidence of profits for purposes of preceding provisions of Part X. [1960 s.60; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 3(5); 1969 Sch.XX 19(5).] U.K.

For the purposes of the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, any assessment which can no longer be varied by any Commissioners on appeal or by order of any court shall be sufficient evidence that the income or chargeable gains F487 in respect of which tax is charged in the assessment arose or were received F487 as stated therein F488 F489 .

Textual Amendments

F487 Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24) Sch.8 para.27. Development Land Tax Act 1976 repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F488 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modifications in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F489 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 5 para. 10(5)—s. 100not to apply to certain penalties on underwriters' agents.

102 Mitigation of penalties. [1952 s.500; 1965 Sch.XI(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

The Board may in their discretion mitigate any penalty, or stay or compound any proceedings for [a penalty F490 ], and may also, after judgment, further mitigate or entirely remit the penalty F491 F492 .

Textual Amendments

F490 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(4).Previously

“recovery thereof”.

F491 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 5 para. 10(5)—s. 100not to apply to certain penalties on underwriters' agents.

F492 SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)(b)andS.I. 1966 No.1191, regn.4 (inPart III Vol.5)—application of this section in relation to penalties underpara.23 (transitional relief to companies with overseas trading income).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C68 Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

103 [Time limits for penalties. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, where the amount of a penalty is to be ascertained by reference to tax payable by a person for any period, the penalty may be determined by an officer of the Board, or proceedings for the penalty may be commenced before the Commissioners or a Court—

(a) at any time within six years after the date on which the penalty was incurred, or

(b) at any later time within three years after the final determination of the amount of tax by reference to which the amount of the penalty is to be ascertained.

(2) Where the tax was payable by a person who has died, and the determination would be made in relation to his personal representatives, section (1)(b) above does not apply if the tax was charged in an assessment made later than six years after the end of the chargeable period for which it was charged.

(3) A penalty under section 99 of this Act may be determined by an officer of the Board, or proceedings for such a penalty may be commenced before a court, at any time within twenty years after the date on which the penalty was incurred.

(4) A penalty to which neither subsection (1) nor subsection (3) above applies may be so determined, or proceedings for such a penalty may be commenced before the Commissioners or a court, at any time within six years after the date on which the penalty was incurred or began to be incurred F493 .]

Textual Amendments

F493 Finance Act 1989 s. 169.Previously

“Time limit for recovery of penalties. 103.—(1) Proceedings for the recovery of any penalty incurred under the Taxes Acts in connection with or in relation to tax may be commenced at any time within six years next after the date on which it was incurred, or at any later time allowed under the following provisions of this section(a).(2) Proceedings for the recovery of any penalty from any person in connection with or in relation to any tax covered by any assessment may, where any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed by him or on his behalf in connection with or in relation to that tax, be commenced at any time within three years from the final determination of the amount of tax covered by the assessment(b):Provided that this subsection shall not extend the time for the bringing of any proceedings against the personal representatives of any person by whom or on whose behalf any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed.(3) Where the amount of any penalty to which a person is liable under the Taxes Acts is determined by reference to tax(c) charged in an assessment for any chargeable period which is made not later than six years after the end of that chargeable period, proceedings for the recovery of the penalty may be commenced within three years from the final determination of the amount of that tax.[(3A)—A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.28. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.](4) In any proceedings for the recovery of a penalty which could not have been commenced but for subsection (3)(c) above, any tax charged in an assessment made under section 37, 39 or 40(2) of this Act shall be left out of account in determining the amount of the penalty(d).”

(a)

See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) Sch. 5 para. 10(5)—s. 100not to apply to certain penalties on underwriters' agents.

(b)

SeeTaxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1) s.119andSch.4 para.11—not applicable to tax for any year before1936—37.

(c)

Amended in relation to development land tax byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.28. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

(d)

SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)(b)andS.I. 1966 No.1191, regn.4 (inPart III Vol.5)—application of this section in relation to penalties underpara.23 (transitional relief to companies with overseas trading income).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C69 Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

104 Saving for criminal proceedings. [1952 s.503; 1965 Sch.X 1(1);1966 Sch.VI 13; Criminal Law Act 1967 s.1.] U.K.

The provisions of the Taxes Acts F494 shall not, save so far as is otherwise provided, affect any criminal proceedings for any misdemeanour F495 F496 .

Textual Amendments

F494 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—for modifications regarding petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F495 SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)(b)andS.I. 1966 No.1191, regn.4 (inPart III Vol.5)—application of this section in relation to penalties underpara.23 (transitional relief to companies with overseas trading income).

F496 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application to special tax on banking deposits.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C70 Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (E.W.S.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), ss. 1(4), 177(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)99)-(12)

Ss. 102-104 power to apply conferred (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 173(4), Sch. 1, para. 7(2)(b)(9)-(12)

105 Evidence in cases of fraud or wilful default. [1952 s.504; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) Statements made or documents produced by or on behalf of a person shall not be inadmissable in any such proceedings as are mentioned in subsection (2) below by reason only that it has been drawn to his attention that—

[(a) pecuniary settlements may be accepted instead of a penalty being determined, or proceedings being instituted, in relation to any tax F497 ,]

(b) though no undertaking can be given as to whether or not the Board will accept such a settlement in the case of any particular person, it is the practice of the Board to be influenced by the fact that a person has made a full confession of any [fraudulent conduct F498 ] to which he had been a party and has given full facilities for investigation,

and that he was or may have been induced thereby to make the statements or produce the documents.

(2) The proceedings mentioned in subsection (1) above are—

(a) any criminal proceedings against the person in question for any form of [fraudulent conduct F498 ] in connection with or in relation to tax F499 , and

(b) any proceedings against him for the recovery of any [tax due from him F500 ] F501 .[and

(c) any proceedings for a penalty or on appeal against the determination of a penalty F502 .]

Textual Amendments

F497 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(5)(a).Previously

“(a) in relation to tax(a), the Board may accept pecuniary settlements instead of instituting proceedings,”

a

SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 s.537andSch.14 para.27(4)— “tax”

ins.105includes excess profits tax and the profits tax.

F498 Finance Act 1989 s. 149(5)but not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84 or for accounting periods ending before 1 April 1983. Previously

“fraud or default”

and

“fraud or wilful default”.

F499 SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 s.537andSch.14 para.27(4)— “tax”

ins.105includes excess profits tax and the profits tax.

F500 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(5)(b).Previously

“sum due from him, whether by way of tax or penalty, in connection with or in relation to tax(a)

(b)”

(a)

SeeIncome and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 s.537andSch.14 para.27(4)— “tax”

ins.105includes excess profits tax and the profits tax.

(b)

SeeFinance Act 1966 s.27andSch.6 para.23(7)(b)andS.I. 1966 No.1191 regn.4 (inPart III Vol.5)—application of this section in relation to penalties underpara.23 (transitional relief for companies with overseas trading income).

F501 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

F502 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(5)(c).

106 Refusal to allow a deduction of income tax, and avoidance of agreements for payment without deduction. [1952 s.506; 1966 Sch.VI 17(4).] U.K.

(1) A person who refuses to allow a deduction of income tax authorised by the Taxes Acts to be made out of any payment shall incur a penalty of £50.

(2) Every agreement for payment of interest, rent or other annual payment in full without allowing any such deduction shall be void.

Scotland U.K.

107 Criminal liability for false statements made to obtain allowances. [1952 s.505; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] [1960 s.55(1).] U.K.

(1) This section applies only in Scotland.

(2) If any person, for the purpose of obtaining any allowance, reduction, rebate or repayment in respect of tax, either for himself or for any other person, or, in any return made with reference to tax, knowingly makes any false statement or false representation, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954, proceedings for an offence under this section may be commenced at any time within three years from the time when the offence was committed.

(4) The expression “return” in this section shall be construed without regard to the definition in section 118(1) of this Act F503 .

Textual Amendments

F503 See—Taxes Management Act 1970 s.119andSch.4 para.12—1952 s.505remains in force as regards proceedings for offences committed in England and Wales before its repeal by theTheft Act 1968and in Northern Ireland before its repeal by theTheft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

PART XI U.K. MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL

Companies U.K.

108 Responsibility of company officers. [1966 Sch.VI 24; 1969 Sch.XX 23(3).] U.K.

(1) Everything to be done by a company under the Taxes Acts F504 shall be done by the company acting through the proper officer of the company, and service on a company of any document under or in pursuance of the Taxes Acts F504 may be effected by serving it on the proper officer.

This subsection is without prejudice to Part VIII of this Act (charges on non-residents) as it applies to corporation tax.

(2) Corporation tax or other tax chargeable under the Corporation Tax Acts F504 on a company which is not a body corporate, or which is a body corporate not incorporated under the [Companies Act 1985 F505 ] or any other enactment forming part of the law of the United Kingdom, or by Charter, may, at any time after the tax becomes due, and without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered from the proper officer of the company, and that officer may retain out of any money coming into his hands on behalf of the company sufficient sums to pay that tax, and, so far as he is not so reimbursed, shall be entitled to be indemnified by the company in respect of the liability so imposed on him.

(3) For the purposes of this section—

(a) the proper officer of a company which is a body corporate shall be the secretary or person acting as secretary of the company, except that if a liquidator has been appointed for the company the liquidator shall be the proper officer,

(b) the proper officer of a company which is not a body corporate or for which there is no proper officer within paragraph (a) above, shall be the treasurer or the person acting as treasurer, of the company F506 .

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F507

Textual Amendments

F504 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F505 Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 9) s. 30and Sch. 2with effect from 1 July 1985. Previously

“Companies Act 1948”.

F506 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this section to the special tax on banking deposits.

F507 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.29. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

109 [Corporation tax on close company in connection with loans to participators etc. U.K.

(1) The provisions of [sections 419 and 420 F508 ] of the principal Act (charge of tax in connection with loans by close companies to participators etc.) directing that tax be assessed and recoverable as if it were an amount of corporation tax shall be taken as applying, subject to the provisions of the Taxes Acts, and to any necessary modifications, all enactments applying generally to corporation tax, including those relating to the assessing, collecting and receiving of corporation tax, those conferring or regulating a right of appeal and those concerning administration, penalties, interest on unpaid tax and priority of tax in cases of insolvency under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

(2) Section 86 of this Act shall apply in relation to tax under the said [sections 419 and 420 F508 ] as if [the date given by the Table in subsection (4) of the said section 86 were the last day of the three months following the end of the financial year in which the loan or advance was made F509 ]. F510

(3) For the purposes of section 88 F510 of this Act as applied by subsection (1) above, the date when tax charged under the said [sections 419 and 420 F508 ] ought to have been paid shall be taken to be the first day of the [financial year F509 ] following that in which the loan or advance was made. F510

(3A)

F510 (4) Section 91 of this Act shall not apply in consequence of any discharge or repayment of tax under section [419(4) F508 ] of the principal Act.

(5) For the purposes of the said section 91, a relief from tax under the said [sections 419 and 420 F508 ] shall not be treated as affecting tax charged by any assessment unless the assessment is to tax under that section F511 .]

Textual Amendments

F508 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 32.

F509 Words substituted byFinance (No.2) Act 1975 s.46(5)in relation to tax charged by assessments where notices issued after31July1975.

F510 See Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 91for changes in respect of loans or advances made (or treated as made) in accounting periods ending after a day to be appointed. See also Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 10(8)(a)(b)for later changes.

F511 Finance Act 1972 s.111andSch.24 para.13in relation to times after5April1973 (subject tos.111(3)).

Valuation U.K.

110 Valuation of land: power of entry. [1963 s.30(2); 1969 Sch.XX 20(4).] U.K.

Any person authorised in that behalf by the Board may, on producing if so required evidence of his authority, at any reasonable time enter on and inspect, with a view to establishing its annual value, any land the annual value of which falls to be determined for purposes of income tax or corporation tax F512 .

Textual Amendments

F512 SeeInland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 (c. 21, SIF 63:1) s.11 (reproduced inPart II Vol.5)—fine for obstruction of officers.

111 Valuation of assets: power to inspect. [1965 Sch.X 14.] U.K.

(1) If for the purposes of [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F513 ] the Board authorise an inspector or other officer of the Board to inspect any property for the purpose of ascertaining its market value the person having the custody or possession of that property shall permit the inspector or other officer so authorised to inspect it at such reasonable times as the Board may consider necessary.

(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F514

(2) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector or other officer of the Board acting in pursuance of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5 F515 .

Textual Amendments

F513 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.8for1979—80et seq.

F514 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.30. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F515 Increased to£25by virtue of theCriminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48) ss.37, 38and54from11April1983by S.I. 1982 No.1857andS.I. 1983 No.24and to £50from 1 May 1984 by S.I. 1984 No. 447and S.I. 1984 No. 526 (s. 61).

Documents U.K.

112 Loss, destruction or damage to assessments, returns, etc. [1952 s.513; 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13, 27(1).] U.K.

(1) Where any assessment to tax, or any duplicate of assessment to tax, or any return or other document relating to tax, has been lost or destroyed, or been so defaced or damaged as to be illegible or otherwise useless, the Commissioners, inspectors, collectors and other officers having powers in relation to tax may, notwithstanding anything in any enactment to the contrary, do all such acts and things as they might have done, and all acts and things done under or in pursuance of this section shall be as valid and effectual for all purposes as they would have been, if the assessment or duplicate of assessment had not been made, or the return or other document had not been made or furnished or required to be made or furnished F516 :

Provided that, where any person who is charged with tax in consequence or by virtue of any act or thing done under or in pursuance of this section proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioners having jurisdiction in the case that he has already paid any tax for the same chargeable period in respect of the subject matter and on the account in respect of and on which he is so charged, relief shall be given to the extent to which the liability of that person has been discharged by the payment so made either by abatement from the charge or by repayment, as the case may require.

(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F517

(2) In this section, “the Commissioners” means, as the case may require, either the Board or the General or Special Commissioners concerned F518 .

[(3) The references in subsection (1) above to assessments to tax include references to determinations of penalties; and in its application to such determinations the proviso to that subsection shall have effect with the appropriate modifications F519 .]

Textual Amendments

F516 SeeOil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—regarding modifications relating to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.

F517 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.31. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F518 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

F519 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(6).

113 Form of returns and other documents. [1952 s.25; 1964(M) Sch.IV; 1966 Sch.VI 5(2)(3); 1969 Sch.XX 15.] U.K.

(1) Any returns under the Taxes Acts shall be in such form as the Board prescribe, and in prescribing income tax forms under this subsection the Board shall have regard to the desirability of securing, so far as may be possible, that no person shall be required to make more than one return annually of the sources of his income and the amounts derived therefrom.

[(1A) Any notice or direction requiring any return to be made under the Taxes Acts to an inspector or other officer of the Board may be issued or given in the name of that officer, or as the case may be in the name of the Board, by any officer of the Board, and so as to require the return to be made to the first-mentioned officer F520 .

(1B) Where the Board or an inspector or other officer of the Board have in accordance with section 29 of this Act, or any other provision of the Taxes Acts, decided to make an assessment to tax, and have taken all other decisions needed for arriving at the amount of the assessment, they may entrust to some other officer of the Board responsibility for completing the assessing procedure, whether by means involving the use of a computer or otherwise, including responsibility for serving notice of the assessment on the person liable for tax F521 .] F522

(1C) Where an officer of the Board has decided that an amount of tax carries interest under section 88 of this Act and has taken the decisions needed for arriving at the date when for the purposes of that section that tax ought to have been paid, he may entrust to any other officer of the Board responsibility for completing the determination procedure, whether by means involving the use of a computer of otherwise, including responsibility for serving notice of the determination on the person liable to the interest F523 .]

(1D) Where an officer of the Board has decided to impose a penalty under section 100 of this Act and has taken all other decisions needed for arriving at the amount of the penalty, he may entrust to any other officer of the Board responsibility for completing the determination procedure, whether by means involving the use of a computer or otherwise, including responsibility for serving notice of the determination on the person liable to the penalty F524 .]

M74 (2) Any return or assessment or other documentrelating to chargeable gains or tax on capital gains may be combined with one relating to income or income tax.

M75 (3) Every assessment, [determination of a penalty F525 ,] duplicate, warrant, notice ofassessment [, of determination F525 ] or of demand, or other document required to be used in assessing, charging, collecting and levying tax [or determining a penalty F525 ] shall be in accordance with the forms prescribed from time to time in that behalf by the Board, and a document in the form prescribed and supplied or approved by them shall be valid and effectual F522 F526 .

Textual Amendments

F520 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

F521 Finance Act 1970, s.18andSch.4, para.10.

F522 See—Finance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.Oil Taxation Act 1975 s.1andSch.2 para.1(1)—Oil Taxation Acts—ss.113and114applied with modifications in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 19 para. 13(7)—ss 113(1B)and (3)and 114(2)applied in relation to apportionment of close company's income.S.I. 1990 No. 627, regn. 8 (in Part III Vol. 5)—application of ss. 113(1B)and (3)to underwriters for 1987-88.

F523 Finance Act 1989 s. 160(4).

F524 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(7)(a).

F525 Finance Act 1989 s. 168(7)(b).

F526 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 16 para. 13(7)—ss. 113(1B)and (3)applied in relation to apportionment of close company's income.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C71 S. 113(1B)(3) applied (19.4.1991) for the year of assessment 1988-1989 by S.I. 1991/851, regs. 1, 6

S. 113(1B) applied (28.3.1992) for the year of assessment 1989-90 by S.I. 1992/511, reg.6

C72 S. 113(1B) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1993 with effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 only) by S.I. 1993/415, regs. 1(1),6

Marginal Citations

M74 1965

Sch. X 17.

M75 1952 s.514(1); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.

114 Want of form or errors not to invalidate assessments, etc. [1952 s.514(2)(3); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] U.K.

(1) An assessment [or determination F527 ], warrant or other proceeding which purports to be made in pursuance of any provision of the Taxes Acts shall not be quashed, or deemed to be void or voidable, for want of form, or be affected by reason of a mistake, defect or omission therein, if the same is in substance and effect in conformity with or according to the intent and meaning of the Taxes Acts, and if the person or property charged or intended to be charged or affected thereby is designated therein according to common intent and understanding.

(2) An assessment [or determination F527 ] shall not be impeached or affected—

(a) by reason of a mistake therein as to—

(i) the name or surname of a person liable, or

(ii) the description of any profits or property, or

(iii) the amount of the tax charged, or

(b) by reason of any variance between the notice and the assessment [or determination F527 .] F528 .

Textual Amendments

F527 Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 160(5).

F528 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 16 para. 13(7)—ss. 114(2)applied in relation to apportionment of close company's income.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C73 S. 114 applied by See Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch.17 para.18 (special tax on banking deposits).

115 Delivery and service of documents. [1952 s.515(1); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.] [1969 Sch.XX 16(1)(2).] U.K.

(1) A notice or form which is to be served under the Taxes Acts on a person may be either delivered to him or left at his usual or last known place or residence F529 .

(2) Any notice or other document to be given, sent, served or delivered under the Taxes Acts may be served by post F529 , and, if to be given, sent, served or delivered to or on any person by the Board, by any officer of the Board, or by or on behalf of any body of Commissioners, may be so served addressed ot that person—

(a) at his usual or last known place of residence, or his place of business or employment, or

(b) in the case of a company, at any other prescribed place, and in the case of a liquidator of a company, at his address for the purposes of the liquidation or any other prescribed place .

(3) In subsection (2) above “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Board, and the power of making regulations for the purposes of that subsection shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons .

M76 (4) Notices to be given or delivered to, or served on, the General Commissioners shall be valid and effectual if given or delivered to or served on their clerk .

Textual Amendments

F529 See also the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30): “References to service by post.7. Where an Act authorises or requires any document to be served by post (whether the expression “serve” or the expression “give” or “send” or any other expression is used) then, unless the contrary intention appears, the service is deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the document and, unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C74 S. 115(1)-(3) applied by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), s. 134, Sch.17 para.18 (special tax on banking deposits).

C75 See Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(1) (Oil Taxation Acts) regarding modification in relation to petroleum revenue tax and supplementary petroleum duty

Marginal Citations

M76 1952 s.515(5); 1965 Sch.X 1(1); 1966 Sch.VI 13.

116 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F530 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F530 (Receipts, etc. exempt from stamp duty.)Repealed byFinance Act 1970 s.36(8)andSch.8 Part V,as from1February1971.

Northern Ireland U.K.

117 Action of ejectment in Northern Ireland. [1952 Sch.XXIII 12.] U.K.

Unless other provision is made in that behalf by any enactment F531 , an action of ejectment in Northern Ireland for non-payment of rent shall not be defeated on the ground that the person liable to pay the rent is entitled under the Income Tax Acts to a deduction which would reduce the amount due by him below a year’s rent.

Textual Amendments

F531 See theNorthern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36), s.40andSch.5 para.1—includes, from appointed day, a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Interpretation U.K.

118 Interpretation. [1952 s.526(1).] U.K.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Act” includes an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland F532 and “enactment” shall be construed accordingly,

• “the Board” means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue,

• “body of persons” means any body politic, corporate or collegiate, and any company, fraternity, fellowship and society of persons, whether corporate or not corporate,

• “branch or agency” means any factorship, agency, receivership, branch or management, and “branch or agent” shall be construed accordingly F533 ,

• “chargeable gain” has the same meaning as in [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F534 ],

• “chargeable period” means a year of assessment or a company’s accounting period,

• “collector” means any collector of taxes,

• “company” has the meaning given by [sections 419 and 420 F535 ] of the principal Act (with section 468 F535 ] of that Act) . . . F536 ,

• “incapacitated person” means any infant, person of unsound mind, lunatic, idiot or insane person,

• “inspector” means any inspector of taxes,

• “neglect”means negligence or a failure to give any notice, make any return or to produce or furnish any document or other information required by or under the Taxes Acts F537 ,

• “the principal Act” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act [1988 F535 ],

• “return” includes any statement or declaration under the Taxes Acts,

• “tax”, where neither income tax nor capital gains tax nor corporation tax [nor development land tax F538 ] is specified, means any of those taxes [except that in sections 20, 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D it does not include development land tax F539 ],

• “the Taxes Acts” F540 means this Act and—

(a) the Tax Acts . . . [Repealed by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s. 844and Sch. 31.See 1987edition for text] and

(b) [The Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F534 ] and all other enactments relating to capital gains tax,

(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F541

• “trade” includes every trade, manufacture, adventure or concern in the nature of trade F542 .

M77 (2) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be deemed not to have failed to do anything required to be done within a limited time if he did it within such further time, if any, as the Board or the Commissioners or officer concerned may have allowed; and where a person had a reasonable excuse for not doing anything required to be done he shall be deemed [not to have failed to do it unless the excuse ceased and, after the excuse ceased, he shall be deemed F543 ] not to have failed to do it if he did it without unreasonable delay after the excuse had ceased:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F544

F542 M78 (3) For the purposes of [section 36 F545 ] and Part X of this Act, an assessment made in the partnership name and the tax charged in such an assessment shall, according to the law in Scotland as well as according to the law elsewhere in the United Kingdom, be deemed to be respectively an assessment made on the partners and tax charged on and payable by them F542 .

M79 (4) For the purposes of this Act, the amount of tax covered by any assessment shall not be deemed to be finally determined until that assessment can no longer be varied, whether by any Commissioners on appeal or by the order of any court.

Textual Amendments

F532 See theNorthern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36), s.40andSch.5 para.1—includes, from appointed day, a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

F533 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) ss. 606and 612 (administration of retirement benefits schemes)—definition applied.

F534 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.8for1979—80et seq.

F535 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 Sch. 29 para. 32.

F536 Words omitted related to development land tax. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F537 See Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 63:1,2) s. 127—production of computer records. Definition repealed by Finance Act 1989 s. 187and Sch. 17 Part VIIIbut does not affect the making of assessments for years before 1983-84or accounting periods ending before 1 April 1983.

F538 Development Land Tax Act 1976 s.41andSch.8 para.32.Repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part Xin respect of disposals taking place on or after19March1985.

F539 Finance Act 1976 s.57(2).

F540 See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) s. 754(9)—application to s. 754 (controlled foreign companies.).

F541 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.32. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

F542 SeeFinance Act 1981 s.134andSch.17 para.18—application of this provision to the special tax on banking deposits.

F543 Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 s. 94.

F544 Proviso repealed byFinance Act 1970 s.36(8)andSch.8 Part VII.

F545 Finance Act 1989 s. 149(3)(b)but not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84or for accounting periods ending before 1 April 1983. Previously

“sections 37 to 39”.

Marginal Citations

M77 1960

s. 63(2).

M78 1960

s. 63(3).

M79 [1952 s. 501(1); 1960 s.63(4).]

PART XII U.K. GENERAL

119 Commencement and construction. U.K.

(1) This Act shall come into force for all purposes on 6th April 1970 to the exclusion of the corresponding enactments repealed by the principal Act.

(2) This Act, and the repeals made by the principal Act, have effect subject to Schedule 4 to this Act.

(3) This Act, so far as it relates to income tax or corporation tax, shall be construed as one with the principal Act.

(4) This Act, so far as it relates to chargeable gains, shall be construed as one with [the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F546 ].

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F547

Textual Amendments

F546 Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2) s.157(2)andSch.7 para.8for1979—80et seq.

F547 A development land tax provision added byDevelopment Land Tax Act 1976 Sch.8 para.33. Development Land Tax Act 1976repealed byFinance Act 1985 s.98(6)andSch.27 Part X.

120 Short title. U.K.

This Act may be cited as the Taxes Management Act 1970.