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Article 18 Joint taxpayers' notice

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(1)

In this article, the expression “adjusted amount” has the same meaning as in regulation 28.

(2)

Subject to article 73, an authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the functions—

(a)

of preparing and serving a notice (“a joint taxpayers' notice”) on a person who is one of joint taxpayers;

(b)

for the purposes of a joint taxpayers' notice, of determining and requiring payment of the adjusted amount;

(c)

where a joint taxpayers' notice is issued after the end of the financial year to which it relates or after the unpaid balance of the estimated amount has become due as mentioned in regulation 23(3) or (4), of requiring payment of the amount in question;

(d)

of determining the amounts of instalments of the amount specified in a joint taxpayers' notice and the intervals at which, and days on which, the instalments are payable;

(e)

subject to article 67, of reaching agreement with a person on whom a joint taxpayers' notice is served as to the manner of payment of the amount required to be paid under the notice, and as to provision for the cessation or adjustment of payments, the making of fresh estimates, and the treatment of any sums paid in accordance with Part I of the Schedule or a Part II scheme before the agreement was entered into;

(f)

of determining whether the amount required to be paid under a joint taxpayers' notice is incorrect, and serving a further notice on every person on whom an incorrect notice was served stating the revised sum required to be paid;

(g)

where the amount stated in such further notice is greater than the amount required to be paid under the joint taxpayers' notice, of determining the revised amount of each remaining instalment; and

(h)

where the amount stated in such further notice is less than the amount required to be paid under the joint taxpayers' notice, of repaying any overpayment or crediting any overpayment against any subsequent liability of the person concerned to make a payment in respect of council tax.