Capital Allowances Act 2001

203 Amendment of returns etc.U.K.
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(1)If a person who has made a tax return (“the taxpayer”) becomes aware that, after making it, anything in it has become incorrect for any of the reasons given in subsection (2), the taxpayer must give notice to the Inland Revenue specifying how the return needs to be amended.

(2)The reasons are that—

(a)an approval given for the purposes of section 180 (affordable warmth programme) has been withdrawn;

(b)section 181(2), 182(2) [F1, 182A(2)] or 184(2) (another person has a prior right) applies in the taxpayer’s case;

(c)section 185 (restriction on qualifying expenditure where another person has claimed an allowance) applies in the taxpayer’s case;

(d)an election is made under section 198 or 199 (election to fix apportionment);

(e)section 200(4) (reduction in amount which can be fixed by an election) applies in the taxpayer’s case.

(3)The notice must be given within 3 months beginning with the day on which the taxpayer first became aware that anything contained in the tax return had become incorrect for any of the reasons given in subsection (2).

(4)All such assessments and adjustments of assessments are to be made as are necessary to give effect to this Chapter.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 203(2)(b) inserted (with effect as mentioned in s. 66 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), s. 66, Sch. 18 para. 11