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(1)Subsection (2) applies if the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs give a notice to a company under section 24 or 26 before the company has made its company tax return for the accounting period specified in the notice.
(2)If the company makes its return for that period before the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the notice is given, it may—
(a)make a return that disregards the notice, and
(b)at any time after making the return and before the end of the period of 90 days, amend the return for the purpose of complying with the provision referred to in the notice.
(3)If a company has made a company tax return for an accounting period, the Commissioners may only give the company a notice under section 24 or 26 in relation to that period if a notice of enquiry has been given to the company in respect of its return for that period.
(4)After any enquiries into the return for that period have been completed, the Commissioners may only give the company a notice under section 24 or 26 if the requirements in subsections (5) and (7) are satisfied.
(5)The first requirement is that at the time the enquiries into the return were completed, the Commissioners could not have been reasonably expected, on the basis of information made available to them or to an officer of Revenue and Customs before that time, to have been aware that the circumstances were such that a notice under section 24 or 26 could have been given to the company in relation to that period.
(6)Paragraph 44(2) and (3) of Schedule 18 to FA 1998 (information made available) applies for the purposes of subsection (5) as it applies for the purposes of paragraph 44(1).
(7)The second requirement is that—
(a)the company was requested to produce or provide information during an enquiry into the return for that period, and
(b)if the company had duly complied with the request, the Commissioners could reasonably have been expected to give the company a notice under section 24 or 26 in relation to that period.
(8)If a company is given a notice under section 24 or 26 in relation to an accounting period after having made a company tax return for that period, the company may amend the return for the purpose of complying with the provision referred to in the notice at any time before the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the notice is given.
(9)If the notice under section 24 or 26 is given to the company after it has been given a notice of enquiry in respect of its return for the period, no closure notice may be given in relation to the company's tax return until—
(a)the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the notice under section 24 or 26 is given, or
(b)the earlier amendment of the company tax return for the purpose of complying with the provision referred to in the notice.
(10)If the notice under section 24 or 26 is given to the company after any enquiries into the return for the period are completed, no discovery assessment may be made as regards the income or chargeable gain to which the notice relates until—
(a)the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the notice under section 24 or 26 is given, or
(b)the earlier amendment of the company tax return for the purpose of complying with the provision referred to in the notice.
(11)Subsections (2)(b) and (8) do not prevent a company tax return for a period becoming incorrect if—
(a)a notice under section 24 or 26 is given to the company in relation to that period,
(b)the return is not amended in accordance with subsection (2)(b) or (8) for the purpose of complying with the provision referred to in the notice, and
(c)the return ought to have been so amended.
(12)In this section—
“closure notice” means a notice under paragraph 32 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998;
“company tax return” means the return required to be delivered pursuant to a notice under paragraph 3 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998, as read with paragraph 4 of that Schedule;
“discovery assessment” means an assessment under paragraph 41 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998;
“notice of enquiry” means a notice under paragraph 24 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998.
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