{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-taxation-act-1975/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-taxation-act-1975/schedule-2/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/22",
  "legislation_title": "Oil Taxation Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-taxation-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, tax charged in an assessment for a chargeable period shall carry interest at the rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 from two months after the end of the period until payment.\n(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) above shall authorise or require interest to be charged from any time before 30th April 1976.\n(3) Where, under paragraph 14(3) above, tax may be withheld until the determination or abandonment of an appeal, the interest on that tax may also be withheld until the determination or abandonment of the appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 179(1)(4) and S.I. 1989 No. 1298 (C. 44) for periods beginning on or after 18 August 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Petroleum Revenue Tax Act 1980 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 2 in relation to tax charged for any period ending on or after 31 December 1979"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "See Finance Act 1982 (c. 39), ss. 139(6), 142(5) and Sch. 19 para. 13(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rates applicable: 12 per cent. for periods after 31 December 1979 by S.I. 1979 No. 1687; 8 per cent. after 30 November 1982 by S.I. 1982 No. 1587; 11 per cent. after 30 April 1985 by S.I. 1985 No. 563; 8.5 per cent. after 5 August 1986 by S.I. 1986 No. 1181; 9.5 per cent. after 5 November 1986 by S.I. 1986 No. 1832; 9 per cent. after 5 April 1987 by S.I. 1987 No. 513; 8.25 per cent. after 5 June 1987 by S.I. 1987 No. 898; 9 per cent. after 5 September 1987 by S.I. 1987 No. 1492; and 8.25 per cent. after 5 December 1987 by S.I. 1987 No. 1988 (for later orders see Part III). See also S.I. 1989 No. 1297 for regulations made and interest rates set under Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 178"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/22/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:39:15.522827+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."
}