Claims in returns
19.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, a person entitled to credit may claim it by deducting its amount from any tax due from him for the relevant accounting period or any subsequent accounting period and, where he does so, he shall make his return for that accounting period accordingly.
(2) Where the entitlement to credit arises under Part VII of these Regulations paragraph (1) above shall apply as if there were substituted for “or any subsequent accounting period” the words “or any subsequent accounting period in the same contribution year as determined in relation to that person under regulation 31”.
(3) The Commissioners may make directions generally or with regard to particular cases prescribing rules in accordance with which credit may or shall be held over to be credited in an accounting period subsequent to the relevant accounting period; and where such a direction has been made that credit, subject to any subsequent such direction varying or withdrawing the rules, may only be claimed in accordance with those rules.