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Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 6 para. 5(3) word omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(a)
Sch. 6 para. 19 20 omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) omitted by Finance Act 2016 s. 144(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 20A omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 5(3) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(a)
Sch. 6 para. 20B omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(b)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(i)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(ii)
Sch. 6 para. 24(2) words omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(c)(iii)
Sch. 6 para. 149A omitted by Finance Act 2012 Sch. 32 para. 22(2)(d)

(1)

The Commissioners may by regulations make provision in relation to any case where—

(a)

a person is under a duty to pay to the Commissioners at any time an amount or amounts in respect of levy; and

(b)

the Commissioners are under a duty to pay to that person at the same time an amount or amounts in respect of levy or any of the other taxes under their care and management.

(2)

Regulations under this paragraph may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) exceeds the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), the latter shall be set off against the former.

(3)

Regulations under this paragraph may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) exceeds the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a), the Commissioners may set off the latter in paying the former.

(4)

Regulations under this paragraph may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) is the same as the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) no payment need be made in respect of the former or the latter.

(5)

Regulations under this paragraph may provide for any limitation on the time within which the Commissioners are entitled to take steps for recovering any amount due to them in respect of levy to be disregarded, in such cases as may be described in the regulations, in determining whether any person is under such a duty to pay as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a).

(6)

Regulations under this paragraph may include provision treating any duty to pay mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) as discharged accordingly.

(7)

References in sub-paragraph (1) to an amount in respect of a particular tax include references not only to an amount of tax itself but also to other amounts such as interest and penalties that are or may be recovered as if they were amounts of tax.

(8)

In this paragraph “tax” includes duty.

Notes on Schedule 6

Modifications

C1: Sch. 6 modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Climate Change Levy (Suspension of Recycling Exemption) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1023), arts. 1, 2, 3
C2: Sch. 6 modified (retrospective to 26.3.2013) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 42 para. 1(1)