The Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) (1990–91) Regulations 1993

Citation, commencement and effect

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) (1990–91) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 23rd March 1993 but shall have effect for the year of assessment 1990–91 only.

(2) Except for regulations 2, 3, 7 and 21(1) to (3), the Lloyd’s Underwriters (Tax) Regulations 1974(1) shall not have effect for the year of assessment 1990–91.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Board” means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue;

“inspector” includes any officer of the Board;

“managing agent” and “members' agent” have the meanings that they have in Schedule 19A;

“member” means an underwriting member of Lloyd's;

“Schedule 19A” means Schedule 19A to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;

“section 207” means section 207 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992;

“section 450” means section 450 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(2);

“syndicate gains” means the chargeable gains accruing to a member on the disposal of assets forming part of a premiums trust fund;

“syndicate investment income” means the profits or gains arising to a member from assets forming part of a premiums trust fund;

“the Taxes Acts” means the Taxes Management Act 1970(3) and—

(2) For the purposes of construing any reference in these Regulations to the year of assessment which corresponds to an underwriting year or to the underwriting year which corresponds to a year of assessment, an underwriting year and a year of assessment correspond to each other if the underwriting year ends in the year of assessment.

Assessment and collection: general

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations 4 to 7, the like provisions as are contained in the Taxes Acts relating to the assessment and collection of tax shall have effect in relation to tax charged in accordance with section 207 or section 450 as they have effect by virtue of regulation 9.

(2) The like provisions as are specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall have effect in relation to the assessment and collection of tax as if the modifications specified in the second column had been made.

Date for payment

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2)—

(a)tax charged by an assessment on—

(i)the profits or gains arising to a member from his underwriting business, and

(ii)syndicate investment income,

shall be payable on or before 1st July 1994, and

(b)tax charged by an assessment on syndicate gains shall be payable on or before 1st January 1994.

(2) Tax charged by an assessment made less than 30 days before, or after, the date specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) shall be payable at the expiration of a period of 30 days beginning with the date of the issue of the notice of assessment.

Reasonable excuse

5.—(1) For the purposes of Schedule 19A, a managing agent shall be deemed not to have failed—

(a)to deliver a return of a syndicate profit or loss within the time specified in paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule(4), or

(b)to deliver a return apportioning a syndicate profit or loss within the period referred to in paragraph 7(3) of that Schedule(5),

if he delivered it within such further time, if any, as the inspector may have allowed.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 2B of Schedule 19A(6), a members' agent shall be deemed not to have failed to deliver a return of the member’s profit within the time specified in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph if he delivered it within such further time, if any, as the inspector may have allowed.

(3) Where a managing agent or a members' agent had a reasonable excuse for not delivering such a return as is mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2), he shall be deemed not to have failed to deliver it unless the excuse had ceased and, after the excuse ceased, not to have failed to deliver it if he did so without unreasonable delay after the excuse had ceased.

Determinations and notices of determinations

6.  The like provisions as are contained in section 113(1B)(7) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 shall apply to a determination or a notice of a determination under Schedule 19A as if the determination were an assessment and the notice of the determination were a notice of an assessment.

Error or mistake

7.—(1) If a members' agent alleges that a statement of the amount of tax payable in the case of a member’s profit under paragraph 2B(1)(c) of Schedule 19A was excessive because of some error or mistake in a return made by him under paragraph 2B(1) of that Schedule, he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment 1992–93 make a claim to the Board for relief.

(2) On receiving the claim the Board shall inquire into the matter and having regard to all the relevant circumstances of the case, but subject to paragraph (3), give by way of repayment or otherwise such relief in respect of the error or mistake as is reasonable and just.

(3) No relief shall be given under this regulation in respect of an error or mistake as to the basis on which a syndicate profit or loss, or as the case may be a member’s profit, ought to have been computed where the return was in fact made on the basis or in accordance with the practice generally prevailing at the time when the return was made.

(4) An appeal may be brought against the decision of the Board on the claim by giving written notice to the Board within 30 days of receipt of written notice of that decision, and the Special Commissioners shall hear and determine the appeal in accordance with the principles to be followed by the Board in determining claims under this regulation; and either the appellant or the Board shall be entitled to require a case to be stated under the like provisions as are contained in section 56 of the Taxes Management Act 1970(8) but only on a point of law arising in connection with the computation of the amount of tax payable in the case of the member’s profit.

(5) In this regulation “return” includes the documents referred to in paragraph 2B(1)(a) and (b) of Schedule 19A.

Managing agents and members' agents

8.—(1) For the purposes of Schedule 19A and of these Regulations, if the person who is acting as a managing agent or a members' agent in respect of the underwriting year corresponding to the year of assessment 1990–91 is different from the person who was so acting at the end of that underwriting year (in this regulation referred to as “the original agent”), then “managing agent” and “members' agent” have the meanings given to them by sub-paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2).

(2) If the original agent ceases to act—

(a)before the beginning of the year of assessment 1993–94, then “managing agent” and “members' agent” mean—

(i)the person who is so acting at the beginning of that year of assessment, or

(ii)if that person ceases so to act, such person as the Board may determine having regard to all the circumstances;

(b)after the end of the year of assessment 1992–93, then “managing agent” and “members' agent” mean such person as the Board may determine having regard to all the circumstances.

Extension of time limits—member and spouse

9.  Where a claim or election or application falls to be made by a member or his spouse (or both) under a provision specified in the first column of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, that provision shall have effect as if it imposed the extended time limit specified in the second column.