(1)A person may provide the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs with particulars of a transaction or transactions effected or to be effected by the person in order to obtain a notification about them under this section.
(2)If the Commissioners consider that the particulars, or any further information provided under this subsection, are insufficient for the purposes of this section, they must notify the person what further information they require for those purposes within 30 days of receiving the particulars or further information.
(3)If any such further information is not provided within 30 days from the notification, or such further time as the Commissioners allow, they need not proceed further under this section.
(4)The Commissioners must notify the person whether they are satisfied that the transaction or transactions, as described in the particulars, were or will be such that no counteraction notice ought to be served about the transaction or transactions.
(5)The notification must be given within 30 days of receipt of the particulars, or, if subsection (2) applies, of all further information required.
(1)This section applies if the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs notify a person under section 701 that they are satisfied that a transaction or transactions, as described in the particulars provided under that section, were or will be such that no counteraction notice ought to be served about the transaction or transactions.
(2)No such notice may be served on the person in respect of the transaction or transactions.
(3)But the notification does not prevent such a notice being served on the person in respect of transactions including not only the ones to which the notification relates but also others.
(4)The notification is void if the particulars and any further information given under section 701 about the transaction or transactions do not fully and accurately disclose all facts and considerations which are material for the purposes of that section.
(1)This section applies if it appears to an officer of Revenue and Customs that a person may be a person to whom section 684 (person liable to counteraction of income tax advantage) applies in respect of one or more transactions.
(2)The officer may serve a notice on the person requiring the person to give the officer information in the person’s possession about the transaction or, if there are two or more, about any of them.
(3)That information must be information about matters which are relevant to the question whether a counteraction notice should be served on the person.
(4)Those matters must be specified in the notice under subsection (2).
(5)That notice must require the information to be given within such period as is specified in it.
(6)That period must be at least 30 days.