The Finance Act 1985 (Interest on Tax) (Prescribed Rate) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 421

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The Finance Act 1985 (Interest on Tax) (Prescribed Rate) Order 1993

Made

2nd March 1993

Laid before the House of Commons

3rd March 1993

Coming into force

6th March 1993

The Treasury, in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 18(8) of the Finance Act 1985(1), hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Finance Act 1985 (Interest on Tax) (Prescribed Rate) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 6th March 1993.

2.  For the purposes of subsections (1), (3) and (6) of section 18 of the Finance Act 1985 the prescribed rate shall be 6.25 per cent.

Tim Wood

Tim Kirkhope

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

2nd March 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order reduces the prescribed rate of interest for the purposes of section 18 of the Finance Act 1985 (interest on tax etc. recovered or recoverable by assessment) from 7 per cent. to 6.25 per cent. with effect from 6th March 1993.

(1)

1985 c. 54; section 18 was amended by the Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), sections 14 and 18 and Schedule 14, Part III, the Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), section 16 and Schedule 19, Part III and the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), section 14 and Schedule 3, paragraph 83.