Section 30 Recovery of overpayment of tax, etc.C10 F1 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6

United Kingdom

Where an amount of F2income tax or capital gains tax has been repaid to any person which ought not to have been repaid to him, that amount of tax may be assessed and recovered as if it were unpaid tax.

(F31A)

Subsection (1) above shall not apply where the amount of tax which has been repaid is assessable under section 29 of this Act.

(F41B)

Subsections (2) to (8) of section 29 of this Act shall apply in relation to an assessment under subsection (1) above as they apply in relation to an assessment under subsection (1) of that section; and subsection (4) of that section as so applied shall have effect as if the reference to the loss of tax were a reference to the repayment of the amount of tax which ought not to have been repaid.

(2)

In any case where—

(a)

a repayment of tax has been increased in accordance with section F5824 F6... of the principal Act or section F7283 of the 1992 Act (supplements added to repayments of tax, etc.) F8or section 102 of the Finance Act 2009 (repayment interest); and

(b)

the whole or any part of that repayment has been paid to any person but ought not to have been paid to him; and

(c)

that repayment ought not to have been increased either at all or to any extent;

then the amount of the repayment assessed under subsection (1) above may include an amount equal to the amount by which the repayment ought not to have been increased.

F9(2A)

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(3)

In any case where—

(a)

a payment, other than a repayment of tax to which subsection (2) above applies, is increased in accordance with section 824 or 825 of the principal Act or section 283 of the 1992 Act; and

(b)

that payment ought not to have been increased either at all or to any extent;

then an amount equal to the amount by which the payment ought not to have been increased may be assessed and recovered as if it were unpaid income tax F10... .

F11(3A)

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F12(4)

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F13(4A)

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(F145)

An assessment under this section shall not be out of time under section 34 of this Act if it is made before the end of whichever of the following ends the later, namely—

(a)

the F15year of assessment following that in which the amount assessed was repaid or paid as the case may be, or

(b)

where a return delivered by the person concerned F16... is enquired into by an officer of the Board, the period ending with the day on which, by virtue of section F1728A(1B) of this Act, F18the enquiry is completed.

(6)

Subsection (5) above is without prejudice to F19section 36 of this Act.

(7)

In this section any reference to an amount repaid or paid includes a reference to an amount allowed by way of set-off.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 30 substituted (in relation to any amount repaid or paid on or after 6 April 1982) by Finance Act 1982 (c. 39), s. 149(1)(3)
F2: Words in s. 30(1) substituted for word (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(2); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F3: S. 30(1A) inserted (in relation to amounts of tax repaid on or after 26 July 1990) by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), s. 105
F4: S. 30(1B) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 199(2)(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 19 para. 4(1); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F5: Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), Sch. 29 para 32.
F6: Words in s. 30(2)(a) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(3), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F7: Words in s. 30(2)(a)(3)(a) substituted (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch. 10 para 2(6) (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))
F8: Words in s. 30(2)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2009, Sections 101 and 102 (Interest on Late Payments and Repayments), Appointed Days and Consequential Provisions Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/992), arts. 1(1), 4(a)
F9: S. 30(2A) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(4), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F10: Words in s. 30(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(5), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F11: S. 30(3A) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(6), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F12: S. 30(4) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), s. 883(1), Sch. 1 para. 369, Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2)
F13: S. 30(4A) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(8), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(28); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F14: S. 30(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 199(2)(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 19 para. 4(2); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F15: Words in s. 30(5)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 117(4)(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 19 para. 13(9); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2
F16: Words in s. 30(5)(b) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 88(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), Sch. 29 para. 23(2)(a), Sch. 33 Pt. 2(13) Note
F17: Word in s. 30(5)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 15 para. 44 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 15 para. 16
F18: Words in s. 30(5)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 88(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), Sch. 29 para. 23(2)(c)
F19: Words in s. 30(6) substituted by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), s. 149(3)(a) (but not to affect the making of assessments before 1983-84 or for accounting periods before 1 April 1983)