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[F17U.K.After section 28C there shall be inserted the following sections—

28D Determination of corporation tax where no return delivered.

(1)Where—

(a)a section 11 notice has been served on a company, and

(b)no return is delivered to an officer of the Board in response to the notice before the relevant day,

the officer may make a determination of the amounts in which, to the best of his information and belief, the company is chargeable to corporation tax for the relevant period.

(2)In subsection (1) above “the relevant period” means—

(a)if there is only one accounting period ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice, that accounting period;

(b)if there is more than one accounting period ending in or at the end of the period so specified, each of those accounting periods;

(c)if the officer has insufficient information to identify the accounting periods of the company, such period or periods ending in or at the end of the period so specified as he may determine.

(3)Subject to subsections (4) and (5) below, a determination under subsection (1) above shall have effect for the purposes of Parts VA, VI, IX and XI of this Act as if—

(a)it were a self-assessment made under section 11AA of this Act; and

(b)(where subsection (2)(c) above applies) the period for which the determination is made were an accounting period of the company.

(4)If—

(a)the company delivers a return for a period ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice,

(b)the period is, or is treated in the return as, an accounting period, and

(c)the return includes a self-assessment under section 11AA of this Act,

the self-assessment shall supersede the determination under subsection (1) above or, if there is more than one determination under that subsection, the determination for the period which is, or most closely approximates to, the period for which the return is made.

(5)If the company shows—

(a)that there is no period ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice which is an accounting period of the company, or

(b)that it has delivered a return containing a self-assessment for the accounting period, or each accounting period, ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice,

any determination under subsection (1) above shall be of no effect.

28E Determination of corporation tax where notice complied with in part.

(1)Where—

(a)a company delivers a return for an accounting period ending in or at the end of the period specified in a section 11 notice served on the company, but

(b)there is another period so ending (an “outstanding period”) which it appears to an officer of the Board is or may be an accounting period but for which no return has been delivered before the relevant day,

the officer may make a determination of the amounts in which, to the best of his information and belief, the company is chargeable to corporation tax for the outstanding period.

(2)Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, a determination under subsection (1) above shall have effect for the purposes of Parts VA, VI, IX and XI of this Act as if—

(a)it were a self-assessment made under section 11AA of this Act; and

(b)where the officer has insufficient information to determine whether the outstanding period is an accounting period, the period for which the determination is made were an accounting period of the company.

(3)If, after the determination is made—

(a)the company delivers a further return for a period ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice,

(b)the period is, or is treated in the return as, an accounting period, and

(c)the return includes a self-assessment under section 11AA of this Act,

the self-assessment shall supersede the determination under subsection (1) above.

(4)If the company shows that it has delivered a return containing a self-assessment for the accounting period, or each accounting period, ending in or at the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice, the determination under subsection (1) above shall be of no effect.

28F Corporation tax determinations: supplementary.

(1)Notice of any determination under section 28D or 28E of this Act shall be served on the person in respect of whom it is made and shall state the date on which it is issued.

(2)No determination may be made under section 28D or 28E of this Act after the end of the period of five years beginning with the relevant day.

(3)A self-assessment shall not supersede a determination under section 28D or 28E of this Act if it is made after whichever is the later of—

(a)the end of the period of five years beginning with the relevant day; and

(b)the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the date of the determination.

(4)Where—

(a)an officer of the Board has commenced any proceedings for the recovery of any tax charged by a determination under section 28D or 28E of this Act, and

(b)before those proceedings are concluded, the determination is superseded by a self-assessment,

those proceedings may be continued as if they were proceedings for the recovery of so much of the tax charged by the self-assessment as is due and payable and has not been paid.

(5)In sections 28D and 28E of this Act and this section “the relevant day” means, in relation to a section 11 notice—

(a)if the final day for the delivery of any return required by the notice can be ascertained in accordance with section 11(4) of this Act, that day;

(b)in any other case, the day determined in accordance with subsection (6) below.

(6)The day is whichever is the later of—

(a)the last day of the period of 30 months from the end of the period specified in the section 11 notice; and

(b)the last day of the period of three months from the day on which the section 11 notice was served.]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 24 para. 7 repealed (31.7.1998 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 27 Pt. III(28), Note of the amending Act) by 1998 c. 36, s. 165, Sch. 27 Pt. III(28)

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