Finance Act 1989

156 Interest on overdue tax

(1) In section 86 of the [1970 c. 9.] Taxes Management Act 1970, for subsection (3) and the words in subsection (4) preceding the Table there shall be substituted—

“(3) For the purposes of this section—

(a) the reckonable date in relation to any tax charged by an assessment to income tax under Schedule E, and

(b) subject to subsection (3A) below, the reckonable date in relation to tax charged by any other assessment to which this section applies,

is the date on which the tax becomes due and payable.

(3A) Where an appeal has been made against an assessment and any of the tax charged by the assessment is due and payable on a date later than the date given by the Table in subsection (4) below, the reckonable date in relation to the tax so due and payable is the later of—

(a) the date given by that Table, and

(b) the date on which the tax would have been due and payable if there had been no appeal against the assessment (assuming in a case where the tax would not have been charged by the assessment if there had been no appeal that it was so charged).

(4) The Table referred to in subsection (3A) above is as follows—”.

(2) In section 55 of that Act—

(a) in subsection (2), for the words “it were” onwards there shall be substituted the words “there had been no appeal.”,

(b) in subsection (6), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted—

“(a) in the case of a determination made on an application under subsection (3) above, other than an application made by virtue of subsection (3A) above, the date on which any tax the payment of which is not so postponed is due and payable shall be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment notice of which was issued on the date of that determination and against which there had been no appeal; and

(b) in the case of a determination made on an application under subsection (4) above—

(i) the date on which any tax the payment of which ceases to be so postponed is due and payable shall be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment notice of which was issued on the date of that determination and against which there had been no appeal; and

(ii) any tax overpaid shall be repaid.”, and

(c) for subsection (9) there shall be substituted—

“(9) On the determination of the appeal—

(a) the date on which any tax payable in accordance with that determination is due and payable shall, so far as it is tax the payment of which had been postponed, or which would not have been charged by the assessment if there had been no appeal, be determined as if the tax were charged by an assessment—

(i) notice of which was issued on the date on which the inspector issues to the appellant a notice of the total amount payable in accordance with the determination, and

(ii) against which there had been no appeal; and

(b) any tax overpaid shall be repaid.”

(3) In section 56(9) of that Act, for the words “amount of” there shall be substituted the words “amount charged by”.

(4) This section shall apply to tax charged by any assessment notice of which is issued after 30th July 1982.