Finance Act 1993

Interest on overdue corporation tax: transitional cases E+W+S+N.I.

3 (1) Section 86 of that Act of 1970 (interest on overdue tax) shall be amended as follows. E+W+S+N.I.

(2) In subsection (3)(b), for “subject to subsection (3A)” there shall be substituted “ subject to subsections (3A) and (4A) ”.

(3) In subsection (3A), at the beginning there shall be inserted “ Subject to subsection (4A) below, ”.

(4) After subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsections—

“(4A) For the purposes of this section where—

(a) a notice served under section 11 above at any time after the appointed day for the purposes of section 82 of the M1 Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (amendment of section 11 for the purposes of pay and file) is to be taken as requiring a company to make a return for any accounting period ending on or before the day appointed for the purposes of section 10 of the principal Act; and

(b) the tax charged by any assessment to corporation tax for that accounting period does not become due and payable until after the date nine months from the end of that accounting period,

the reckonable date, in relation to tax charged for that accounting period by that assessment, is the date mentioned in paragraph (b) above (instead of the date which would otherwise be determined under subsection (3) or (3A) above).

(4B) The Board may at their discretion mitigate (whether before or after judgment) any interest due under this section in a case where the reckonable date is determined under subsection (4A) above and may stay or compound any proceedings for the recovery thereof.”

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Marginal Citations

M1 1987 c. 51.