PARTS I AND IIU.K.

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1U.K.

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2U.K.

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3U.K.

4—8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4U.K.

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5U.K.

PART IIIU.K. INCOME TAX, CORPORATION TAX AND CAPITAL GAINS TAX

10—31.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6U.K.

F732 Information as to arrangements for transferring relief, etc.U.K.

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33—36.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8U.K.

37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9U.K.

F1038 Territorial extension of charge to income tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax.U.K.

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39, 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11U.K.

F1241 General Commissioners’ divisions.U.K.

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42. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13U.K.

43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14U.K.

44. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15U.K.

PART IVU.K.

45,46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F16U.K.

Part VU.K. Stamp Duty

47, 48.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17U.K.

49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18U.K.

50 Temporary statutory effect of House of Commons resolution affecting stamp duties. U.K.

(1)Where the House of Commons passes a resolution which—

(a)provides for the variation or abolition of an existing stamp duty . . . F19; and

(b)is expressed to have effect for a period stated in the resolution in accordance with the following provisions of this section; and

(c)contains a declaration that it is expedient in the public interest that the resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of this section;

then, subject to subsection (3) of this section, the resolution shall for the period so stated have statutory effect as if contained in an Act of Parliament.

(2)The period to be stated in a resolution is a period expressed as beginning on a date so stated and ending on, or thirty-one days or such less number of days as may be so stated after, the earliest of the dates mentioned in this subsection; and those dates are—

(a)the [F20thirtieth] day on which, after the day the resolution is passed, the House of Commons sits without a Bill containing provisions to the same effect as the resolution being read a second time and without a Bill being amended (whether by the House or a Committee of the House or a [F21Public Bill Committee]) so as to include such provisions;

(b)the rejection of such provisions during the passage through the House of a Bill containing them;

(c)the dissolution or prorogation of Parliament; and

(d)the expiration of the period of [F22six] months beginning with the day on which the resolution takes effect.

(3)A resolution shall cease to have statutory effect under this section if an Act comes into operation varying or abolishing the duty.

(4)The ending of the period for which a resolution has statutory effect under the provisions of this section shall not affect the validity of anything done during that period.

PART VIU.K.

51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F23U.K.

52, 53.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24U.K.

54 Amendments consequential on establishment of The Stock Exchange.U.K.

(1)In the enactments relating to . . . F25, . . . F26, . . . F27 . . . F25 stamp duty—

(a)references to the Stock Exchange, London or the London Stock Exchange, a stock exchange in the United Kingdom or a recognised stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to The Stock Exchange;

(b)references to quotation on a stock exchange in the United Kingdom on a recognised stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to listing in the Official List of The Stock Exchange; and

(c)references to a member of a stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to a member of The Stock Exchange;

and those enactments shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 21 to this Act.

(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on 25th March 1973 but shall not affect the operation of any enactment in relation to anything done before that day.

55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28U.K.

56 Charges for services, etc., by Government departments. U.K.

(1)Where a Government department, in pursuance of any Community obligation or any international agreement or arrangement, provides any services or facilities or issues any authorisation, certificate or other document, it may, in connection therewith, require the payment of such fees or other charges as may be prescribed by, or determined under, regulations made by the Minister in charge of the department with the consent of the Treasury.

(2)Regulations under this section may provide for the recovery and disposal of any sums payable under the regulations and make different provision for different circumstances.

(3)The powers conferred by this section are without prejudice to any powers exercisable apart from this section to require the payment of fees or other charges.

(4)Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5)In this section “Government department” includes a department of the Government of Northern Ireland, and any regulations which the Minister in charge of such a department is empowered to make under this section may be made either by him or by the department, and with the consent of the [F29Department of Finance] for Northern Ireland instead of the Treasury; and in relation to regulations so made subsection (4) of this section shall not apply but they shall be subject to negative resolution, within the meaning of section 41(6) of the M1Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, as if they were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act.

(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F30

57. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F31U.K.

58 Trustee Investments Act 1961—dividends of water companies.U.K.

(1)The Treasury may by order make such amendments in paragraph 10 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the M2Trustee Investments Acts 1961 (under which a trustee’s power to invest in certain securities depends on the amount of dividends paid) and in any enactment or instrument modifying that paragraph as appear to them required in consequence of the repeal by the Finance Act 1972 of the provisions relating to the deduction of income tax from distributions made by companies.

(2)An order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order under this section, and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

59 Citation, interpretation, construction, extent and repeals.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1973.

[F32(2)In this Act—

(a)“the Taxes Act 1970” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970; and

(b)“the Taxes Act 1988” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.]

(3)In this Act—

(a)Part I shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Act 1952;

(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F33

(c)Part III, so far as it relates to income tax, shall be construed as one with the Income Tax Acts, so far as it relates to corporation tax, shall be construed as one with the COrporation Tax Acts and, so far as it relates to capital gains tax, shall be construed as one with [F34the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979];

(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F35

(e)Part V shall be construed as one with the M3Stamp Act 1891.

(4)Except so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference to that enactment as applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

(5)Except as otherwise expressly provided, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws do not extend to Northern Ireland.

(6)If the Parliament of Northern Ireland passes provisions amending or replacing any enactment of that Parliament referred to in this Act the reference shall be construed as a reference to the enactment as so amended or, as the case may be, as a reference to those provisions.

(7)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 22 to this Act (which include certain enactments which had ceased to have effect before the commencement of this Act) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any provision at the end of any Part of that Schedule.

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULES 1—4.U.K. . . . F36

SCHEDULE 5.U.K. . . . F37

SCHEDULES 6 AND 7.U.K. . . . F38

SCHEDULES 8—14.U.K. . . . F39

Section 38.

F40SCHEDULE 15U.K. TERRITORIAL EXTENSION OF CHARGE TO TAX—SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

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SCHEDULE 16U.K. . . . F41

[F42SCHEDULE 16AU.K. UNDERWRITERS ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAX

PreliminaryU.K.

1U.K.In this Schedule—

• “agent”, in relation to a syndicate and a year of assessment, means—

(a)the person who was acting as underwriting agent for that syndicate at the end of the corresponding underwriting year; or

(b)such other person as may be detertnined in accordance with regulations made by the Board by statutory instrument;

• “closing year”, in relation to a year of assessment, means the year of assessment next but one following that year;

• “inspector” includes any officer of the Board;

• “profits” includes gains;

• “syndicate” means a syndicate of underwriting members of Lloyds formed for an underwriting year;

• “syndicate profit or loss”, in relation to a syndicate, means the aggregate amount of the profits or losses arising to all the members of the syndicate (taken together), and “syndicate profits” and “syndicate losses” shall be construed accordingly.

(2)References in this Schedule to profits or losses arising to a member of a syndicate are references to profits or losses which—

(a)arise to him in his capacity as such a member, whether from his underwriting business or from assets forming part of a premiums trust fund; and

(b)are chargeable or, as the case may be, allowable under Case I of Schedule D.

(3)Regulations under this paragraph may make provision with respect to the year of assessment next but one preceding the year of assessment in which they are made.

Returns by agentU.K.

2(1)An inspector may, at any time after the end of the closing year for a year of assessment, by notice in writing to the agent require him to deliver to the inspector, on or before the final day determined under sub-paragraph (2) below, a return of the syndicate profit or loss for the year of assessment—U.K.

(a)containing such information as may be required in pursuance of the notice; and

(b)accompanied by such accounts, statements and reports as may be so required; and

(c)in the case of a syndicate profit, containing a statement of the amount of tax which would be payable on that profit if the whole of it were charged to tax at the basic rate of income tax for that year.

(2)The final day for the delivery of any return required by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above is whichever is the later of—

(a)the 1st September next following the end of the closing year for the year of assessment; and

(b)the end of the period of three months beginning on the day following that on which the notice was served.

(3)If the agent, having been required by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above to deliver a return, fails to deliver the return on or before the final day for its delivery, he shall be liable to a penalty equal to the prescribed amount multiplied by the number of days on which the failure continues; and in this sub-paragraph “the prescribed amount” means £10 for each fifty members of the syndicate (counting any number of members left over as fifty).

(4)If the agent fraudulently or negligently delivers an incorrect return under sub-paragraph (1) above, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the prescribed amount multiplied by the number of members of the syndicate; and in this sub-paragraph “the prescribed amount” means £500 in the case of fraud and £250 in the case of negligence.

(5)In relation to a return required by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above—

(a)any reference in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) above to the delivery of the return is a reference to its delivery together with the accompanying documents referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above; and

(b)the reference in sub-paragraph (4) above to the return being incorrect includes a reference to any of those documents being incorrect.

Payments on account of taxU.K.

3(1)In the case of a syndicate profit for a year of assessment, the agent shall, on or before the 1st January next following the end of the closing year for that year—U.K.

(a)pay to the collector, on account of the liabilities to tax of the members of the syndicate, the amount stated in his return for that year under paragraph 2(1)(c) above; and

(b)deliver to the inspector a return apportioning, between those members, the amount so paid.

(2)Where an amount is paid to the collector under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above for a year of assessment, the following provisions shall apply as between each member of the syndicate and the agent—

(a)where the member’s proportion of the amount so paid exceeds the amount deducted by the agent in accounting to the member for his share of the syndicate profit for that year, the amount of the excess shall be paid by the member to the agent; and

(b)where the amount, so deducted exceeds that proportion, the amount of the excess shall be paid by the agent to the member.

(3)Where an amount is paid to the collector under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above for a year of assessment, the following provisions shall apply as respects the liability to tax for that year of each member of the syndicate—

(a)where the amount in which the member is charged to tax exceeds his proportion of the amount so paid, the amount of the excess shall be the amount of tax due and payable; and

(b)where that proportion exceeds the amount in which the member is so charged, the amount of the excess shall be treated as tax overpaid.

(4)Any amount which is payable under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above shall carry interest at the prescribed rate from the date when it becomes payable until payment, whether or not that date is a non-business day within the meaning of the M4Bills of Exchange Act 1882; and—

(a)section 89 of the M5Taxes Management Act 1970 (the prescribed rate of interest); and

(b)section 90 of that Act (disallowance of relief for interest on tax),

shall apply for the purposes of this sub-paragraph as they apply for the purposes of any provision of Part IX of that Act.

Determinations by inspectorU.K.

4(1)If the inspector is satisfied that a return under paragraph 2(1) above affords correct and complete information concerning the syndicate profit or loss for a year of assessment, he shall determine that profit or loss accordingly.U.K.

(2)If for a year of assessment the inspector is dissatisfied with a return under paragraph 2(1) above, or there is no such return, the inspector shall determine the syndicate profit or loss for that year to the best of his judgment.

(3)If the inspector discovers that a determination under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above—

(a)understates the syndicate profits for the year of assessment; or

(b)overstates the syndicate losses for that year,

he may, by a determination under this sub-paragraph, vary the first-mentioned determination accordingly.

(4)Notice of a determination under this paragraph shall be served on the agent and shall state the time within which any appeal against the determination may be made under paragraph 5 below.

(5)After notice of a determination under this paragraph has been served on the agent, the determination shall not be altered except in accordance with the express provisions of the Taxes Acts.

AppealsU.K.

5(1)The agent may appeal against a determination under paragraph 4 above by a notice of appeal in writing given to the inspector within thirty days after the date of the notice of determination.U.K.

(2)An appeal under this paragraph shall be to the General Commissioners, except that the agent may elect (in accordance with section 46(1) of the Taxes Management Act 1970) to bring the appeal before the Special Commissioners instead of the General Commissioners; and subsections (5) to (5E) of section 31 of that Act shall apply for the purposes of an election under this sub-paragraph as they apply for the purposes of an election under subsection (4) of that section.

Modification of determinations pending appealU.K.

6U.K.-

(1)Where the agent appeals against a determination under paragraph 4 above, then, for the purpose of establishing, in the event of a member of the syndicate appealing against an assessment made on him, the amount of tax the payment of which should, pending the determination of that appeal, be postponed under section 55 of the Taxes Management Act 1970, that section shall apply to the first-mentioned appeal with the modifications specified in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2)The modifications are as follows—

(a)any reference to the notice of assessment shall be construed as a reference to the notice of determination;

(b)any reference to the appellant believing that he is overcharged to tax by the assessment shall be construed as a reference to him believing that the determination overstates the syndicate profits, or understates the syndicate losses, for the year of assessment, and any reference to the appellant having grounds for so believing, or there being reasonable grounds for so believing, shall be construed accordingly;

(c)any reference to a determination of the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed pending the determination of the appeal shall be construed as a reference to a direction that the determination shall, pending the, determination of the appeal, have efect for the purpose stated in sub-paragraph (1) above as if the syndicate profits there stated were reduced, or the syndicate losses there stated were increased, by such amount as may be specified in the direction, and any reference to an amount of tax so determined, or to the amount of tax which should be so postponed, shall be construed accordingly; and

(d)subsections (2) and (9) and, in subsection (6), paragraphs (a) and (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding paragraph (a) shall be omitted.

Apportionments of syndicate profit or lossU.K.

7(1)Where a determination of a syndicate profit or loss for a year of assessment is made, varied or modified (whether under the foregoing provisions of this Schedule or on appeal), the inspector may, by notice in writing to the agent, require him to make to the inspector, within the specified period, a return apportioning, between the members of the syndicate, the syndicate profit or loss as stated in the determination as so made, varied or modified.U.K.

(2)If the agent, having been required by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above to deliver a return within the specified period, fails to deliver the return within that period, he shall be liable to a penalty equal to the prescribed amount multiplied by the number of days on which the failure continues; and in this sub-paragraph “the prescribed amount” means £5 for each fifty members of the syndicate (counting any number of members left over as fifty).

(3)In this paragraph “the specified period” means such period, not being less than thirty days and beginning with the day following the date of the notice under sub-paragraph (1) above, as may be specified in that notice.

Individual members: effect of determinationsU.K.

8(1)A determination of a syndicate profit or loss for a year of assessment (whether as originally made or as varied or modified) shall, for the purpose of determining the liability to tax of each member of the syndicate, be conclusive against that member that the syndicate profit or loss for that year is as there stated.U.K.

(2)Where a determination of a syndicate profit or loss for a year of assessment is varied or modified at any time after the issue of a notice of assessment assessing any member of the syndicate to tax—

(a)section 31 of the M6Taxes Management Act 1970 (right of appeal) and section 55 of that Act (postponement of tax) shall have effect, in relation to that member, as if any reference to the date of the notice of assessment, or the date of the issue of the notice of assessment, were a reference to the date of the variation or modification; and

(b)in the case of a variation, an assessment which gives effect to the determination as varied shall not be out of time if it is made within one year of the date of the variation.

(3)Sub-paragraph (2)(b) above shall not apply in the case of a variation under paragraph 4(3) above which is made later than six years after the end of the closing year.

Assessment of individual members: time limitsU.K.

9U.K.For the purposes of sections 36, 37,40 and 41 of the M7Taxes Management Act 1970 (extension of time in cases of fraud, wilful default or neglect), anything done or omitted to be done by the agent shall be deemed to have been done or omitted to be done by each member of the syndicate.

Suppleptiental: penaltiesU.K.

10(1)If it appears to an inspector or the Board that the agent is liable to a penalty under paragraph 2(3) or 7(2) above, the amount appearing to be due may be assessed by the inspector or the Board as if it were tax for the year of assessment in which the failure to make the return occurred; and, subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the provisions of the Taxes Management Act 1970 relating to the assessment and collection of tax shall apply accordingly.U.K.

(2)An amount assessed by way of penalty under paragraph 2(3) or 7(2) above shall be due at the end of the period of thirty days beginning with the date of the issue of the notice of assessment.

(3)On an appeal against an assessment of an amount by way of penalty under sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 or sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 7 above, subsections (6) to (8) of section 50 of that Act shall not apply but the Commissioner—

(a)may confirm the amount of the assessment or, if it appears to them that the amount assessed is greater or smaller than the penalty provided for under that sub-paragraph, may reduce it or increase it to such an amount as is appropriate having regard to the provisions of that sub-paragraph; and

(b)if it appears to them that no penalty has been incurred, may set the assessment aside.

(4)Where an amount has been assessed by way of penalty under sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 or sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 7 above and either no appeal has been brought against that assessment or the amount assessed has been confirmed or varied on appeal—

(a)a certificate of an inspector or other officer of the Board that an amount is due by way of penalty under that sub-paragraph; and

(b)a certificate of a collector that payment of that amount has not been made to him or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector, or to a person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector,

shall be sufficient evidence that the amount mentioned in the certificates is unpaid and is due to the Crown; and any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this sub-paragraph shall be deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved.

(5)Section 100 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (procedure for recovery of penalties) shall not apply to a penalty under paragraph 2(3) or 7(2) above.

Supplemental: interestU.K.

11(1)Interest charged under paragraph 3(4) above shall be treated for the purposes of the enactments mentioned in section 69 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (interest on tax) as if it were tax charged and due and payable under an assessment.U.K.

(2)References to section 86 of that Act in sections 70(2) and 92 of that Act (evidence, and remission of interest in certain cases) shall include a reference to paragraph 3(4) above.]

SCHEDULE 17U.K. . . . F43

SCHEDULE 18U.K. . . . F44

SCHEDULE 19U.K. . . . F45

SCHEDULE 20U.K. . . . F46

Section 54.

SCHEDULE 21U.K. AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE

1U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F47

2U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F48

3U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F49

4U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F50

5U.K.In section 21 of the Taxes Management Act 1970—

(a)the words “or dealing broker”, wherever they occur, and the definition of “dealing broker” in subsection (7) shall be omitted; and

(b)for the definitions of “broker” and “jobber” in subsection (7) there shall be substituted the following:—

““broker” means a member of The Stock Exchange who carries on his business in the United Kingdom and is not a jobber;

“jobber” means a member of The Stock Exchange who is recognised by the Council thereof as carrying on the business of a jobber and carries on that business in the United Kingdom”.

6—9.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F51

Section 59.

SCHEDULE 22U.K. ENACTMENTS REPEALED

PART IU.K. Revenue Duties

PART IIU.K. INCOME TAX AND CORPORATION TAX

PART IIIU.K. UNDERWRITERS

These repeals have effect for the year 1973-74 and subsequent years of assessment and, so far as they relate to proviso (a) of paragraph 7(2) and paragraph 11(2)(a)(iii), also for the year 1972-73.

PART IVU.K. THE STOCK EXCHANGE

Part VU.K. Stamp Duty

1U.K.Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3 below, these repeals have effect on and after 1st August 1973 but do not apply in relation to any case where stamp duty may be chargeable after that date in accordance with subsection (1) of section 49 of this Act.

2U.K.In so far as they relate to duty chargeable—

(a)by virtue of the heading “Marketable Security” in Schedule 1 to the Stamp Act 1891, and

(b)under section 8 of the Finance Act 1899 (on loan capital), these repeals shall be deemed to have had effect on and after 1st January 1973.

3U.K.These repeals are without prejudice to subsections (3)(a) and (9) of section 49 of this Act.