Finance Act 1920

57 Repeal of land values duties

(1) As from the commencement of this Act the land values duties shall cease to be chargeable, and the obligation of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue under section twenty-six of the [10 Edw. 7. c. 8.] Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, to cause a valuation to be made of all land in the United Kingdom shall cease.

(2) Any land value duty which has been assessed at the date of the commencement of this Act but which is unpaid at that date shall not be collected, and no assessment shall be made in respect of any land value duty which became chargeable before that date.

(3) Where any person shows to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue that he or any person of whom he is, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the legal representative has at any time paid any sum on account of any land value duty, he shall, on making an application in that behalf to the Commissioners at any time within six months after the date of the commencement of this Act and in such form as may be prescribed by the Commissioners, be entitled to repayment of the sum so paid.

(4) Where an immediate lessor has paid or borne any annual increment value duty and has made a deduction in respect of that duty from the rent payable by him to his lessor, he shall, on obtaining a repayment under this section of that duty, refund to the lessor or the representative of the lessor a sum equal to the amount so deducted.

(5) In this section the expression " land values duties" means the increment value duty (including annual increment value duty), reversion duty, and undeveloped land duty imposed by Part I. of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, but does not include mineral rights duty.