{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970/section-37A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970/section-37A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/9",
  "legislation_title": "Taxes Management Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970",
  "path": "section/37A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37A",
  "heading": "Effect of assessment where allowances transferred.",
  "text": "Where an assessment is made on any person in a case falling within section 36(1) or (1A) or 36A, the fact that the person’s liability to income tax or total income for any year of assessment is assessed as greater than it was previously taken to be shall not affect the validity of any deduction from net income or tax reduction made in the case of that person’s spouse or civil partner ... by virtue of ... section 39, 51 or 52 of ITA 2007 ... ; and the entitlement in that case of the first-mentioned person for the year in question to any deduction from net income or tax reduction shall be treated as correspondingly reduced.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37A inserted (for 1990-91 and subsequent years) by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), s. 35, Sch. 3 para. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A substituted (1.4.2010) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), s. 118(2), Sch. 39 para. 10; S.I. 2009/403, art. 2(2) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 80(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 80(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 77(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 8 para. 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 77(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 8 para. 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), s. 1034(1), Sch. 1 para. 252(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), s. 1034(1), Sch. 1 para. 252(3) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A repealed (27.8.2002 for specified purposes, 6.4.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 6; S.I. 2002/1727, art. 2; S.I. 2003/962, art. 2(3)(e), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 7 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 1 para. 6(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), s. 1034(1), Sch. 1 para. 252(4) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 37A substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 77(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 8 para. 13(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pts. 4-6 applied (22.7.2020) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), Sch. 16 para. 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/9/section/37A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:31.747484+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."
}