28.—(1) Sections 13 (persons in receipt of taxable income belonging to others), 15 (return of employees’ earnings etc), 16 (fees, commissions, etc), 16A (agency workers), 20A (power to call for papers of tax accountant), 20BA (orders for the delivery of documents) and 20BB (falsification etc of documents) of the 1970 Act apply for the purposes of establishing the amount of the repayment a borrower may be required to make under this Part as they apply for the purposes of establishing the amounts in which a person is chargeable to income tax.
(2) Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2008(1) (information and inspection powers) applies in relation to checking a borrower’s compliance with this Part as it applies in relation to checking a person’s tax position (as defined in that Schedule) subject to the modifications in paragraph (3).
(3) The modifications are —
(a)any reference to any provision of the Taxes Acts is to be treated as a reference to this Part;
(b)any reference to prejudice to the assessment or collection of tax is to be treated as a reference to prejudice to the assessment or collection of student loan repayments;
(c)the reference to information relating to the conduct of a pending appeal relating to tax is to be treated as a reference to information relating to the conduct of a pending appeal relating to compliance with this Part; and
(d)in paragraph 21(6)—
(i)paragraphs (a) and (c) are omitted; and
(ii)in paragraph (b) the reference to relevant tax for the chargeable period is to be treated as a reference to the amount of the student loan repayment shown in the self-assessment under regulation 26.