{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998/schedule-18/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998/schedule-18/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/36",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A company may amend its company tax return by notice to an officer of Revenue and Customs.\n(2) The notice must be in such form as an officer of Revenue and Customs may require.\n(3) The notice must contain such information and be accompanied by such statements as an officer of Revenue and Customs may reasonably require.\n(4) Except as otherwise provided, an amendment may not be made more than twelve months after—\n(a) the filing date, or\n(b) in the case of a return for the wrong period, what would be the filing date if the period for which the return was made were an accounting period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 18 substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 68(a); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 15 applied (with modifications) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Lloyds Underwriters (Tax) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3338), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 15 applied (with modifications) (15.11.2011 for specified purposes, 30.3.2012 for E.W.) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(5)(o), Sch. 24 para. 8(2); S.I. 2012/628, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 15(4): power to modify conferred by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010, Sch. 7A para. 71(2)(c) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 5 para. 25(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 5 para. 28))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 15(4) modified by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010, Sch. 7A para. 69(8) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 5 para. 25(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 5 para. 28))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/3",
      "affecting_title": "Finance Act 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/3",
      "affecting_title": "Finance Act 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/3",
      "affecting_title": "Finance Act 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/36/schedule/18/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:30.566925+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}