C5C4C7C8 PART IX INTEREST ON OVERDUE TAX

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4

Pt. IX applied (27.7.1993 with effect in relation to the year 1993-94 and subsequent years of assessment) by Finance Act 1993 (c. 34), s. 122(2)(3)

C7

Pt. 9 applied by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), s. 281(5)(a) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 18 para. 17 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 18 paras. 15(2), 17)

C8

Pt. 9 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

C287F4Interest on overdue advance corporation tax and income tax on company payments.

C1C61

Any tax assessable in accordance with Schedule F6... [F116] to [F1the principal Act] shall carry interest at the [F2rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989] from the date when the tax becomes due and payable until payment .

2

Where—

F7a

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b

income tax paid in respect of payments made in any return period is repaid or discharged under paragraph 5 of the said Schedule [F116] 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.

F34

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F115

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6

In this section “return period” means a period for which a return is required to be made under the said Schedule F8... [F116].

C17

It is hereby declared that this section applies to F9... income tax which, in accordance with F10the said Schedule 16, 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.

C1C3F58

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.