PART XVII TAX AVOIDANCE

CHAPTER VI MISCELLANEOUS

Other provisions

778 Power to obtain information.
(1) The Board or an inspector may by notice require any person to furnish them within such time as the Board or the inspector may direct (not being less than 30 days) with such particulars as the Board or the inspector think necessary for the purposes of sections 775 and 776.
Source—1970 s.490
(2) The particulars which a person must furnish under this section, if he is required by a notice from the Board or the inspector so to do, include particulars—
(a) as to transactions or arrangements with respect to which he is or was acting on behalf of others;
(b) as to transactions or arrangements which in the opinion of the Board or the inspector should properly be investigated for the purposes of sections 775 and 776 notwithstanding that, in the opinion of the person to whom the notice is given, no liability to tax arises under those sections; and
(c) as to whether the person to whom the notice is given has taken or is taking any, and if so what, part in any, and if so what, transactions or arrangements of a description specified in the notice.
See S.I.1989 No.1343 (N.I.14) Sch.1 para.38(3)for construction in the case of a solicitor who is an officer or employee of a recognised body.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) above, a solicitor—
(a) shall not be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that subsection to have taken part in any transaction or arrangement by reason only that he has given professional advice to a client in connection with the transaction or arrangement, and
(b) shall not, in relation to anything done by him on behalf of a client, be compellable under this section, except with the consent of his client, to do more than state that he is or was acting on behalf of a client, and give the name and address of his client.