SCHEDULES
Section 6.
SCHEDULE 1Forms of Declarations
PART IGeneral and Special Commissioners and Others
“I, A.B., do solemnly declare that I will impartially and to the best of my ability execute my duties under the Income Tax Acts and the enactments relating to any tax on company profits or capital gains ; and that I will not disclose any information received by me in the execution of my duties except for the purposes of my duties or for the purposes of any prosecution for an offence relating to income tax or any tax on company profits or capital gains, or in such other cases as may be required by law.”
PART IICommissioners of Inland Revenue
“I, A.B., do solemnly declare that I will not disclose any information received by me in the execution of my duties except for the purposes of those duties or for the purposes of any prosecution for an offence relating to inland revenue, or in such other cases as may be required by law.”
PART IIIInspectors, Collectors and other Officers
“I, A.B., do solemnly declare that I will not disclose any information received by me in the execution of the duties which may from time to time be assigned to me by the Board of Inland Revenue except for the purposes of my duties, or to the Board of Inland Revenue or in accordance with their instructions, or for the purposes of any prosecution for an offence relating to inland revenue, or in such other cases as may be required by law.”
Section 42.
SCHEDULE 2Jurisdiction in Appeals on Claims
Appeal from inspector
1(1)Except as otherwise provided by the following provisions of this Schedule, or any other provision of the Taxes Acts, an appeal against the decision of an inspector on a claim shall lie to the General Commissioners, but the appellant may elect to bring the appeal before the Special Commissioners instead of the General Commissioners.
(2)If an appeal to either body of Commissioners is pending against an assessment on the appellant which relates to the same source of income as that to which the claim relates, the appeal on the claim shall lie to that body of Commissioners.
2(1)An appeal from a decision of an inspector on a claim under any provision in column 1 of the Table below shall be to the General Commissioners, and paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall not apply.
(2)An appeal from a decision of an inspector on a claim under any provision in column 2 of the said Table shall be to the Special Commissioners, and paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall not apply.
TABLE
1 | 2 |
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Appeal exclusively to General Commissioners | Appeal exclusively to Special Commissioners |
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In the principal Act— | In the principal Act— |
Chapter II of Part I | section 158(1) |
section 65(4) | section 310 |
Schedule 3 | section 311 |
section 315(3) |
section 331 |
section 332 |
section 338 |
section 339 |
section 384 |
section 389 |
section 391 |
section 392 |
Chapter I of Part XVIII |
Appeal from Board
3Except as otherwise provided by any provision of the Taxes Acts, an appeal against the decision of the Board on a claim shall lie to the Special Commissioners.
Section 44.
SCHEDULE 3Rules for Assigning Proceedings to Commissioners
Description of proceedings | Place given by these rules |
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Rules 3 and 5 have effect subject to rule 4 above. |
Rules 7 and 8 have effect to the exclusion of any other rules. |
Where under rules 3 and 5 above a right of election for the place of residence is provided in column 2 above, the appellant may, by notice in writing to the inspector or the Board (given not later than the notice of appeal), elect for the place where he ordinarily resided in the year of assessment to which the proceedings relate. |
The rules in this Schedule have effect subject to sections 11, 137, 154(5), 252(9) and section 494(9) of the principal Act, to paragraph 22 of Schedule 7 to the principal Art and to section 81 of the [1968 c. 3.] Capital Allowances Art 1968 (all of which relate to proceedings to which more than one taxpayer may be a party) and to any other express provisions in the Taxes Acts. |
Income tax and capital gains tax |
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1. An appeal against an assessment under Case I or Case II of Schedule D. | } The place where the trade, profession or vocation is carried on, or in which the head office or principal place of business is situated. |
2. Any other proceedings relating to a trade, profession or vocation the profits of which are assessable under Case I or Case II of Schedule D, or would be so assessable if there were any. |
3. An appeal against an assessment under Schedule E and any appeal in exercise of a right conferred by regulations under section 204 of the principal Act (pay as you earn). | Subject to the right of election for place of residence, the place of employment or such other place as may be assigned instead by regulations under section 204 of the principal Act. |
4. An appeal against an assessment under Schedule B and any proceedings concerning the annual value of land. | The place where the property is situated. |
5. An appeal against an assessment under Schedule A or under Schedule D, other than Cases I and II.
An appeal against an assessment to capital gains tax.
| Subject to the right of election for place of residence,—
(a) if the person assessed is carrying on a trade, profession or vocation, the place in which the trade, profession or vocation is carried on, or in which the head office or principal place of business is situated, or
(b) if the person assessed is employed, and does not carry on a trade, profession or vocation, the place of employment.
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6. Any proceedings under the Income Tax Acts not covered by the preceding rules.
Any proceedings relating to capital gains tax not covered by rule 5.
| The place where the appellant or other party to the proceedings (not being an inspector or the Board) ordinarily resided in the year of assessment to which the proceedings relate.
If the party was resident or ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom, the Board may give directions, which may be either general or addressed to a particular occasion, to meet the case.
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Corporation tax, etc. |
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7. Proceedings which relate to corporation tax.
Proceedings which relate to income tax, but to which a company resident in the United Kingdom and within the charge to corporation tax is a party.
| The place where the company or other body concerned carries on its trade or business, or in which its head office or principal place of business is situated, or where it resides. |
8. Proceedings relating to tax assessable under section 286, 288 or 289 of the principal Act. | The place where the company concerned carries on its trade or business, or in which its head office or principal place of business is situated, or where it resides. |
Section 119.
SCHEDULE 4Savings and Transitory Provisions
Declaration of secrecy
1(1)Section 6(4) of this Act shall not apply to a person who, before 10th July 1964, made a declaration in any of the forms set out in Schedule 2 to the [1952 c. 10.] Income Tax Act 1952, or a declaration of secrecy in a form approved by the Board.
(2)General or Special Commissioners or other persons who made declarations in the form in Part I of Schedule 1 to the [1964 c. 37.] Income Tax Management Act 1964, or in the form in Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Act 1952, before the coming into force of paragraph 16 of Schedule 10 to the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 (which included in the form of declaration a reference to the new taxes imposed by that Act) shall be subject to the same obligations as to secrecy with respect to those taxes as they are subject to with respect to income tax.
(3)The repeals made by the principal Act shall not alter the effect or validity of any declaration made before the commencement of this Act.
Information about interest paid or credited without deduction of tax by banks, etc.
2A notice served under section 29 of the Income Tax Act 1952 (re-enacted in section 17 of this Act) on the Postmaster General before 1st October 1969 shall, if it has not been complied with before that date, be deemed to have been served on the Director of Savings; and section 17(1) of this Act shall, in its application to the National Savings Bank, have effect as if the reference to interest paid or credited by the Director of Savings included, as regards any period before the said date, a reference to interest paid or credited by the Postmaster General to depositors.
Assessments
3(1)Section 36 of this Act shall not apply to tax for any year before the year 1.936-37.
(2)Section 41 of this Act shall not apply to any assessment signed before 6th April 1965.
Claims
4(1)This paragraph has effect as respects relief under any enactment repealed by the principal Act, or repealed or terminated by any Act passed before that Act, so far as it remains in force after the commencement of this Act.
(2)Section 42 of this Act shall apply to any such relief in like manner as section 9 of the [1964 c. 37.] Income Tax Management Act 1964 would have applied but for the passing of this Act, and nothing in the repeals made by the principal Act shall affect any enactment determining whether the claim is made to the inspector or the Board, or the Commissioners to whom an appeal lies on the claim.
5An appeal, or other proceedings in the nature of an appeal, instituted on a claim, or proceedings in the nature of a claim, made before 6th April 1965 shall be continued before the same Commissioners notwithstanding that, under Schedule 2 to this Act or Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Management Act 1964, an appeal on the claim should have been made to some other Commissioners.
6(1)Any relief obtainable under section 87(8) of the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 (transitional relief for existing companies on cessation of trade) by way of discharge or repayment of tax shall be given on the making of a claim.
(2)After the making of such a claim in respect of a trade no notice as regards the trade shall be given or revoked under section 129 of the [1952 c. 10.] Income Tax Act 1952 or section 80(6) of the Finance Act 1965 (period of computation of profits for second and third years of trade).
Choice of Commissioners to hear proceedings
7Neither section 44 of this Act nor any other provision in this Act shall apply to an appeal against an assessment signed, claim made, or other proceedings instituted, before 6th April 1965 so as to require the proceedings to be heard by Commissioners other than those who would have heard the proceedings if the Income Tax Management Act 1964 had not passed.
Settling of appeals by agreement
8Section 54 of this Act shall apply to the Board of Referees as it applies to the General or Special Commissioners (that is to say in any appeal to the Board of Referees in any jurisdiction under an enactment repealed by the Finance Act 1965).
Interest on tax
9(1)For the purposes of section 86(3) of this Act, the tax charged by any assessment by virtue of section 15(2) of the [1967 c. 54.] Finance Act 1967 (increase of surtax rates for 1965-66) shall be treated as if it had been charged by an assessment separately made.
(2)For the purposes of section 88 of this Act the due date for payment of so much of any surtax for the year 1965-66 as is attributable to subsection (1) of the said section 15 shall be taken to be 1st September 1967, instead of 1st January 1967.
Penalties, etc.
10Section 98 of this Act shall have effect as if the Table contained in it (columns 1 and 2 of which correspond respectively to columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 6 to the [1960 c. 44.] Finance Act 1960) included, in the appropriate column, so far as they remain in force, the enactments and regulations mentioned in or added to the said Schedule 6 which were repealed or terminated by any Act passed before this Act.
11Section. 103(2) of this Act shall not apply to tax for any year before the year 1936-37.
12The repeals made by the principal Act shall not affect proceedings for any offence punishable under section 505 of the [1952 c. 10.] Income Tax Act 1952 and committed before the repeal of the said section 505 by the [1968 c. 60.] Theft Act 1968, or, in Northern Ireland, by the [1969 c. 16 (N.I.).] Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.
Northern Ireland
13For the purposes of section 3 of the [1962 c. 30.] Northern Ireland Act 1962 (appellate jurisdiction of High Court in Northern Ireland under enactments passed before that Act) any provision of this Act reproducing such an enactment shall be treated as also having been passed before the passing of the said Act of 1962.
14Part V of this Act, and the repeal by the principal Act of the provisions corresponding to Part V of this Act, shall not apply to proceedings falling within paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 5 to the [1964 c. 37.] Income Tax Management Act 1964 (assessments, etc. for 1964-65 and earlier years).