{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998/schedule-18/paragraph-51B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998/schedule-18/paragraph-51B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/36",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/51B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A claim under paragraph 51 may not be made more than 4 years after the end of the relevant accounting period.\n(2) In relation to a claim made in reliance on paragraph 51(1)(a), the relevant accounting period is—\n(a) where the amount paid, or liable to be paid, is excessive by reason of a mistake in a company tax return or returns, the accounting period to which the return (or, if more than one, the first return) relates, and\n(b) otherwise, the accounting period in respect of which the amount was paid.\n(3) In relation to a claim made in reliance on paragraph 51(1)(b), the relevant accounting period is—\n(a) where the amount liable to be paid is excessive by reason of a mistake in a company tax return or returns, the accounting period to which the return (or, if more than one, the first return) relates, and\n(b) otherwise, the accounting period to which the assessment, determination or direction relates.\n(4) A claim under paragraph 51 may not be made by being included in a company tax return.\n(5) Sub-paragraph (1) is subject to paragraph 51BA.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 paras. 51-51G and cross-headings substituted for Sch. 18 para. 51 (with effect in accordance with s. 100(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 52 para. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 18 para. 51B(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 232(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), s. 232(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 51B(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 5 of the amending S.I.) by The Enactment of Extra-Statutory Concessions Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1037), arts. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 paras. 50-50G applied (with modifications) (8.4.2010) by Finance Act 2010 (c. 13), Sch. 1 paras. 31, 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 18 paras. 51-51G applied (with modifications) (temp.) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 10 para. 43 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 10 para. 24 (as amended (5.1.2023) by The Finance Act 2022, Schedule 10 (Public Interest Business Protection Tax) (Substitution of Date) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1321), reg. 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "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/51B",
    "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."
}