Finance Act 1942

39 Successions and amalgamations.

The right of appeal to the Board of Referees conferred by the proviso to subsection (4) of section thirty-eight of the Finance Act, 1940 (which subsection enables the Commissioners to modify the enactments relating to the computation, for, the purposes of excess profits tax, of profits and capital in certain cases of succession or amalgamation) shall extend to cases where the Commissioners refuse to make any modification requested by the person carrying on the trade or business, and accordingly for the said proviso the following proviso shall be substituted :—

“Provided that if the Commissioners make any such modifications and the person carrying on the trade or business is dissatisfied with the modifications so made, or if the Commissioners refuse to make any modification requested by the person carrying on the trade or business and he is dissatisfied with the refusal, he may appeal to the Board of Referees.”