Part II Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax

CHAPTER IV Management

Interest etc.

158 Small amounts of interest.

1

In the Taxes Management Act 1970—

a

section 86(6) (remission of interest payable on overdue income tax,capital gains tax or corporation tax where interest would not exceed£30), and

b

section 87(4) (no interest payable on overdue advance corporation tax orincome tax on company payments where interest would not exceed £30),

shall cease to have effect.

2

The words “of not less than £25” in—

a

[F1section 283(1) of the M1Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992] (norepayment supplement where overdue repayment of capital gains tax less than£25), and

b

section 824(1)(a) and (b) and (5) of the Taxes Act 1988 (no repaymentsupplement where overdue repayment of income tax etc. less than £25),

and the words “of not less than £100” in section 825(2) of theTaxes Act 1988 (no repayment supplement where overdue repayment of company taxless than £100) shall cease to have effect.

3

Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above shall have effect—

a

in relation to income tax under Schedule E, where the demand for the taxis made on or after the appointed day, and

b

in any other case, where the tax is charged by an assessment notice ofwhich is issued on or after the appointed day.

4

Paragraph (b) of that subsection shall have effect where the tax ischarged by an assessment relating to an accounting period beginning on orafter the appointed day.

5

Subsection (2) above shall have effect in relation to repayments of taxmade on or after the appointed day.

6

In this section “the appointed day” means such day as theTreasury may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different daysmay be appointed for different enactments or for different purposes of thesame enactment.