Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 6 applied by The Income Tax (Entertainers and Sportsmen) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/530), reg. 11(3)
C2Pt. 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)
C3Pt. 6 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 18 para. 39(2)(a) (with Sch. 18 para. 59(2)); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
C4Pt. 6: power to apply conferred (with effect in accordance with s. 114(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1999 (c. 16), Sch. 17 para. 17(a)
C5Pt. 6 applied (with modifications) by The Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/744), reg. 49(7) (as amended (19.8.1999) by The Income Tax (Employments) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2155), regs. 1(1), 7)
(1)[F1Any amount due and payable by way of income tax, capital gains tax or corporation tax which does not exceed £2,000] 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 F2... may be brought in England and Wales at any time within one year from the time when the matter complained of arose.
(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 [F3in proceedings under Article 62 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981].
[F4(5)The Treasury may by order made by statutory instrument increase the [F5sum] 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.]
Subordinate Legislation Made
P1S. 65: power exercised (11.9.1989) by S.I. 1989/1300.
P2S. 65(5): power exercised (16.7.1991) by S.I.1991/1625.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 65(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 30(2); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F2Words in s. 65(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 30(3), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F5Word in s. 65(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 30(4); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C6S. 65 applied (with modifications) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Stamp Duty (Collection and Recovery of Penalties) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2537), regs. 1(1), 3(1), Sch. Pt. I