{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-collection-and-management-wales-act-2016/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-collection-and-management-wales-act-2016/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/6",
  "legislation_title": "Tax Collection and Management (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-collection-and-management-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Determination of tax chargeable if no tax return made",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) WRA has reason to believe that a person is chargeable to a WRA-collected tax,\n(b) the person has not made a tax return in relation to the WRA-collected tax chargeable, and\n(c) the relevant filing date has passed.\n(2) “The relevant filing date” means the date by which WRA believes a tax return was required to be made.\n(3) WRA may make a determination (a “WRA determination”) of the amount of WRA-collected tax to which the person is, in WRA's opinion, chargeable.\n(4) Notice of the determination must be issued to the person.\n(5) The person must pay the WRA-collected tax payable in accordance with the WRA determination before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which notice of the determination is issued.\n(6) No WRA determination may be made more than 4 years after the relevant date.\n(7) The relevant date is—\n(a) the relevant filing date, or\n(b) such other date as the Welsh Ministers may by regulations prescribe.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Act substituted (19.9.2025) by Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 5), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 52(5) substituted (1.4.2018) by Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (anaw 1), s. 81(2)(3), Sch. 23 para. 16; S.I. 2018/34, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52 in force at 1.4.2018 by S.I. 2018/33, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/6/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:13.778220+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."
}