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Version Superseded: 01/04/2010

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26(1)Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, an assessment under—U.K.

(a)any provision of section 56 of this Act, or

(b)paragraph 25 above,

shall not be made more than [F1three years] after the end of the accounting period concerned or, in the case of an assessment under paragraph 25 above of an amount due by way of a penalty which is not a penalty referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, [F1three years] after the event giving rise to the penalty.

(2)An assessment under paragraph 25 above of—

(a)an amount due by way of any penalty referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, or

(b)an amount due by way of interest,

may be made at any time before the expiry of the period of two years beginning with the time when the amount of tax due for the accounting period concerned has been finally determined.

(3)In relation to an assessment under paragraph 25 above, any reference in sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above to the accounting period concerned is a reference to that period which, in the case of the penalty or interest concerned, is the relevant period referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph.

(4)If tax has been lost—

(a)as a result of conduct falling within paragraph 12(1) above or for which a person has been convicted of fraud, or

(b)in circumstances giving rise to liability to a penalty under paragraph 14 above,

an assessment may be made as if, in sub-paragraph (1) above, each reference to [F1three years] were a reference to twenty years.

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