2(1)A company may be required by a notice served on the company by an inspector or other officer of the Board to deliver to the officer within the time limited by the notice a return of the profits of the company computed in accordance with the Corporation Tax Acts—
(a)specifying the income taken into account in computing those profits, with the amount from each source,
(b)giving particulars of all disposals giving rise to chargeable gains or allowable losses under Parts III and IV of the Finance Act 1965, and particulars of those chargeable gains or allowable losses, and
(c)giving particulars of all charges on income to be deducted against those profits for the purpose of the assessment to corporation tax.
(2)A notice under this paragraph may require a return of profits arising in any period during which the company was within the charge to corporation tax.
(3)Every return under this paragraph shall include a declaration to the effect that the return is correct and complete.
(4)A return under this paragraph which includes profits which are payments on which the company has borne income tax by deduction shall specify the amount of income tax so borne.
(5)A notice under this paragraph may require the inclusion in the return of particulars of management expenses, capital allowances and balancing charges which have been taken into account in arriving at the profits included in the return.
(6)Paragraph 6 of Schedule 10 to the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 (power to demand information about the acquisition of assets) shall apply in relation to a notice under this paragraph as it applies in relation to a notice under section 7 of the [1964 c. 37.] Income Tax Management Act 1964.
(7)Section 31 of the [1952 c. 10.] Income Tax Act 1952 (production of books and accounts) shall apply where a company is required to make, or makes, a return under this paragraph relating to profits which consist of or comprise those arising from a trade as it applies where a person is required to make, or makes, a return for the purposes of income tax of the profits or gains arising to him from any trade.