SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 51Withdrawal of notice to file etc

2TMA 1970

1

Section 7 (notice of liability to income tax and capital gains tax) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1)—

a

for paragraph (b) substitute—

b

falls within subsection (1A) or (1B),

b

for “six months from the end of that year” substitute “the notification period”.

3

After subsection (1) insert—

1A

A person falls within this subsection if the person has not received a notice under section 8 requiring a return for the year of assessment of the person’s total income and chargeable gains.

1B

A person falls within this subsection if the person—

a

has received a notice under section 8 requiring a return for the year of assessment of the person’s total income and chargeable gains, and

b

has received a notice under section 8B withdrawing the notice under section 8.

1C

In subsection (1) “the notification period” means—

a

in the case of a person who falls within subsection (1A), the period of 6 months from the end of the year of assessment, or

b

in the case of a person who falls within subsection (1B)—

i

the period of 6 months from the end of the year of assessment, or

ii

the period of 30 days beginning with the day after the day on which the notice under section 8 was withdrawn,

whichever ends later.

4

In subsection (2), for the words from “shall have effect” to the end substitute “and subsections (1A) to (1C) have effect as if references to a notice under section 8 were references to a notice under section 8A.”