{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1983-repealed-191994/section-38B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1983-repealed-191994/section-38B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/55",
  "legislation_title": "Value Added Tax Act 1983 (repealed 1.9.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1983-repealed-191994",
  "path": "section/38B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38B",
  "heading": "Interest: general treatment.",
  "text": "(1) Any interest payable by the Commissioners (whether under an enactment or instrument or otherwise) to a person on a sum due to him under or by virtue of—\n(a) any provision of this Act,\n(b) section 25 of the Finance Act 1985, or\n(c) section 24 of the Finance Act 1989,\nshall be treated as an amount due to him by way of credit under section 14(5) above.\n(2) Subsection (1) above shall be disregarded for the purpose of determining a person’s entitlement to interest or the amount of interest to which he is entitled.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 38B inserted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 40:2), s. 17(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/55/section/38B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:04:55.994456+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."
}