Taxes Management Act 1970

SurtaxU.K.

22 Additional particulars for surtax. U.K.

The Board may F1. . . , 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

F1 Words omitted repealed for 1973—74 et seq. by Finance Act 1971 ss. 37, 38, Sch. 14 Part II.

23 Power to obtain copies of registers of securities. 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 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.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 23(2) modified by Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c.19), ss. 10, 16(1) (references to shillings and pence in enactments passed before 15.2.1971 to 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. 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.

[F2(3A)In this section “bank” has the meaning given by [F3section 991 of ITA 2007].]

(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

F2S. 24(3A) inserted (with application in accordance with Sch. 37 para. 11(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 37 para. 11(1)(2)(c)

F3Words in s. 24(3A) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), s. 1034(1), Sch. 1 para. 249 (with Sch. 2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)