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TAXES CONSOLIDATION ACT

Part 41A

Assessing Rules Including Rules for Self Assessment (ss. 959A-959AW)

Chapter 1 Interpretation (Part 41A) (ss. 959A-959B)

959A.

Interpretation.

In this Part, except where the context otherwise requires –

“Acts”
(a)the Income Tax Acts,
(b)the Corporation Tax Acts,
(c)the Capital Gains Tax Acts,
(ca)Part 18A,
(d)Part 18C,
(e)Part 18D,
and any instruments made under any of those Acts or Parts;

“amount of tax chargeable”, in relation to a person and an Act, means the amount of tax chargeable on the person under the Act after taking into account –
(a)each allowance, deduction or relief that is authorised by the Act to be given to the person against income, profits or gains or, as applicable, chargeable gains, and
(b)in the case of an individual to whom Chapter 2A of Part 15 applies, any increase in the taxable income of the individual by virtue of that Chapter;

“amount of tax payable”, in relation to a person and an Act, means the amount of tax computed by reducing the amount of tax chargeable on the person by the amount of any tax credit that is authorised by the Act to be given to the person in relation to a person and an Act, means the amount of tax payable by the person after reducing the amount of tax chargeable on the person under the Act by the amount of any tax credit that is authorised by the Act in relation to that person;

“assessment”, other than in section 959G, means an assessment to tax that is made under the Acts and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a self assessment;

“chargeable gain” has the same meaning as in section 545(3);

“chargeable period” means an accounting period of a company or a tax year;

“chargeable person” means, as respects a chargeable period, a person who is chargeable to tax for that period, whether on that person’s own account or on account of some other person but, as respects income tax, does not include a person to whom subsection (1) of section 959B relates;

“due date for the payment of an amount of preliminary tax” has the meaning assigned to it by Chapter 7;

“electronic means” includes electronic, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric, photonic means of transmission of data and other forms of related technology by means of which data is transmitted;

“electronic record” includes electronic, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric, photonic means of storing data and other forms of related technology by means of which data is stored;

“precedent partner” has the same meaning as in Part 43;

“prescribed form” means a form prescribed by the Revenue Commissioners or a form used under the authority of the Revenue Commissioners;

“preliminary tax” means the amount of tax which a chargeable person is required to pay in accordance with section 959AN;

“return” means the return which is required to be prepared and delivered in accordance with Chapter 3;

“Revenue assessment” shall be construed in accordance with section 959C;

“Revenue officer” means an officer of the Revenue Commissioners;

“self assessment” means an assessment to tax made by a chargeable person, or in relation to a chargeable person, in accordance with Chapter 4;

“specified provisions” means sections 877 to 881, section 884, paragraphs (a) and (d) of section 888(2), section 1023, and section 1031H;

“specified return date for the accounting period” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (b) of the definition of specified return date for the chargeable period;

“specified return date for the chargeable period” means –
(a)in relation to a tax year for income tax or capital gains tax purposes, 31 October in the tax year following that year,
(b)in relation to an accounting period of a company –
(i)subject to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii), the last day of the period of 9 months starting on the day immediately following the end of the accounting period, but in any event not later than day 21 of the month in which that period of 9 months ends,
(ii)where the accounting period ends on or before the date the winding up of the company starts and the specified return date in respect of that accounting period would, apart from this subparagraph, fall on a day after the date the winding up started but not within a period of 3 months after that date, the day which falls 3 months after the date the winding up started but in any event not later than day 21 of the month in which that period of 3 months ends, and
(iii)where, in relation to the accounting period, a return is made by electronic means in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part 38 and any payment which the company is required to make in accordance with the provisions of the Acts is made by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners –
(I)in circumstances other than those referred to in subparagraph (ii), the last day of the period of 9 months starting on the day immediately following the end of the accounting period, but in any event not later than day 23 of the month in which that period of 9 months ends provided that both the return and the payment is made by that day,
(II)in the circumstances referred to in subparagraph (ii), the day which falls 3 months after the date the winding up started but in any event not later than day 23 of the month in which that period of 3 months ends provided that both the return and the payment is made by that day;

“specified return date for the tax year” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (a) of the definition of specified return date for the chargeable period;

“tax”, other than in section 959G, means any income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax or any other levy or charge which under the Acts is placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners;

“tax credit”, in relation to a person and an Act, means an amount authorised by the Act to be given or set against, or deducted from, the amount of tax chargeable on the person under the Act;

“tax year” means a year of assessment

959B.

Supplemental interpretation provisions.

(1)For the purposes of the meaning assigned to ‘chargeable person’ in section 959A, it does not include a person –

(a)whose only source or sources of income for a tax year is or are sources the income from which consists of emoluments to which Chapter 4 of Part 42 applies, but for this purpose a person who, in addition to such source or sources of income, has another source or other sources of income shall be deemed for the tax year to be a person whose only source or sources of income for the tax year is or are sources the income from which consists of emoluments to which Chapter 4 of Part 42 applies if the income from that other source or those other sources, which does not exceed €5,000 in total –

(i)is taken into account in determining the amount of his or her tax credits and standard rate cut-off point for the tax year applicable to those emoluments, or

(ii)is fully taxed at source under section 261,

and, for the purposes of deciding whether such income should be taken into account in determining the amount of tax credits and standard rate cut-off point for the tax year, the Revenue Commissioners may have regard to the amount for that, or any previous, tax year of the income of the person from that other source or those other sources before deductions, losses, allowances and other reliefs,

(b)who for the tax year has been excluded by a Revenue officer from the requirements of Chapter 3 by reason of a notice given under section 959N, or

(c)who is chargeable to tax for the tax year by reason only of section 237, 238 or 239,

but paragraph (a) shall not apply to a person who is a director or, in the case of a person to whom section 1017 or 1031C applies, whose spouse or civil partner is a director (within the meaning of section 116) of a body corporate other than a body corporate which during a period of 3 years ending on 31 December in the tax year –

(i)was not entitled to any assets other than cash on hands, or a sum of money on deposit within the meaning of section 895, not exceeding €130,

(ii)did not carry on a trade, business or other activity including the making of investments, and

(iii)did not pay charges on income within the meaning of section 243.

(2)

(a)In the Acts (other than in this Part), any reference however expressed to a person being assessed to tax, to an assessment being made on a person, or to a person being charged to tax by an assessment, shall be construed as including a reference to a person being so assessed or so charged by a self assessment made under Chapter 4.

(b)For the purposes of paragraph (a), the reference to assessment and self assessment includes an amended assessment and an amended self assessment.

(3)

(a)Where any obligation or requirement is imposed on a person in any capacity under this Part and a corresponding obligation or requirement is imposed on that person in another capacity, the discharge of any one of those obligations or requirements shall not release the person from the other obligation or requirement.

(b)A person shall not in any capacity have an obligation or requirement imposed on that person under this Part by reason only that such obligation or requirement is imposed on that person in any other capacity.

(c)Where but for any of the subsequent provisions of this Part any such obligation or requirement would have been imposed on a person in more than one capacity, a release from such obligation or requirement under any of those provisions by reason of any fact or circumstance applying in relation to that person’s liability to tax in any one capacity shall not release that person from such obligation or requirement as is imposed on that person in a capacity other than that in which that fact or circumstance applies.

(4)

(a)References in this Part to tax payable, tax which would be payable or tax found to be payable shall be construed in accordance with the definition of ‘amount of tax payable’ in section 959A and any related references shall also be construed accordingly.

(b)Paragraph (a) shall apply regardless of the type of tax to which the reference applies.

Chapter 2

Assessments: General Rules (ss. 959C-959H)

959C.

Making of assessments: general rules.

(1)Any assessment made under the Acts, other that a self assessment, shall be made by or on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners and shall be known as a ‘Revenue assessment’.

(2)A Revenue assessment shall be made by a Revenue officer.

(3)An assessment made under an Act shall be an assessment to tax in relation to a person for a chargeable period and all tax that falls to be charged on the person under the Act for the chargeable period shall be included in one assessment.

(4)An assessment to tax in relation to a person shall be an assessment, in accordance with the Acts, for the chargeable period involved of –

(a)the amount of the income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains arising to the person for the period,

(b)the amount of tax chargeable on the person for the period,

(c)the amount of tax payable by the person for the period, and

(d)the balance of tax, taking account of any amount of tax paid directly by the person to the Collector-General for the period, which under the Acts –

(i)is due and payable by the person to the Revenue Commissioners for the period, or

(ii)is overpaid by the person for the period and which, subject to the Acts, is available for offset or repayment by the Revenue Commissioners.

(5)Subject to section 959E(5), an assessment to tax in relation to a person for a chargeable period may relate to –

(a)tax chargeable under more than one of the Acts, and

(b)an amount due under an enactment other than the Acts which by virtue of that enactment is to be assessed and charged as if it were an amount of income tax.

(6)An assessment to tax in relation to a person shall, where required under section 1084, include the amount of any surcharge due for the chargeable period.

959D.

Record of assessments and generation of notices by electronic means.

(1)The Revenue Commissioners shall keep a record of –

(a)each Revenue assessment made, and

(b)each self assessment made by a Revenue officer in relation to a chargeable person under section 959U.

(2)The requirements of subsection (1) shall be satisfied where a Revenue officer enters details of the assessment, including the tax charged in the assessment, in an electronic record.

(3)Where a Revenue officer –

(a)enters details of an assessment in accordance with subsection (2), and

(b)a notice of assessment in the name of another Revenue officer is produced or generated by electronic means,

the Revenue officer whose name appears on the notice shall, for the purposes of the Acts, be deemed to have –

(i)other than where section 959U(3) applies, made the assessment to which the notice relates,

(ii)where the notice relates to a Revenue assessment, made the assessment to the best of his or her judgement, and

(iii)given the notice that was so issued, produced or generated.

959E.

Notice of assessment by Revenue officer.

(1)Where a Revenue assessment is made or a self assessment is made by a Revenue officer in relation to a chargeable person under section 959U, a Revenue officer shall give notice to the person assessed of the assessment made.

(2)Notice of an assessment, which is given by a Revenue officer, may be given in writing or by electronic means.

(3)Where a return is prepared and delivered in accordance with section 959L by another person acting under a chargeable person’s authority, a copy of the notice of assessment shall be given to that other person.

(4)Subject to subsection (5) and section 959AC, a notice of assessment given by a Revenue officer to a person for a chargeable period shall include details of –

(a)the amount of the income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains arising to the person for the period,

(b)the amount of tax chargeable on the person for the period,

(c)the amount of tax payable by the person for the period,

(d)the balance of tax, taking account of any amount of tax paid directly by the person to the Collector-General for the period, which under the Acts –

(i)is due and payable by the person to the Revenue Commissioners for the period, or

(ii)is overpaid by the person for the period and which, subject to the Acts, is available for offset or repayment by the Revenue Commissioners,

(e)the amount of any surcharge which, under section 1084, is required to be included in the assessment,

(f)the name of the Revenue officer who is giving the notice and the address of the Revenue office at which that officer is based, and

(g)the time allowed for giving notice of appeal against the assessment to which the notice relates.

(5)

(a)Where an assessment relates to tax chargeable under more than one of the Acts, the notice of assessment shall identify the amount of tax chargeable under each of the Acts.

(b)Where by virtue of an enactment other than the Acts, an amount due under that enactment is to be assessed and charged as if it were an amount of income tax, the notice of assessment shall identify the amount so chargeable by virtue of that enactment.

(6)A notice of assessment may include details of one or more of the following for the chargeable period involved:

(a)the Case or Schedule under which an amount of income, profits or gains has been charged in the assessment;

(b)the provision of the Act by virtue of which an amount of income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains has been charged in the assessment;

(c)the amount of each allowance, deduction, relief or tax credit to which the person assessed is entitled for the period;

(d)the calculation of the amount of tax chargeable on the person for the period;

(e)the calculation of the amount of tax payable by the person for the period;

(f)the calculation of the balance of tax payable by, or repayable to, the person for the period.

959F.

Double assessment.

(1)Where it appears to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that a person, either on the person’s own account or on behalf of another person, has been assessed to tax more than once for the same chargeable period for the same cause and on the same account, they shall vacate the whole, or the part, of any assessment as appears to them to constitute a double assessment.

(2)A person who, either on the person’s own account or on behalf of another person, has been assessed to tax and is again assessed for the same chargeable period for the same cause and on the same account, may apply for relief to the Revenue Commissioners who, on proof to their satisfaction of the double assessment, shall cause the assessment, or so much of the assessment as constitutes a double assessment, to be vacated.

(3)Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that any double assessment has been made and that payment has been made on both assessments, they shall, subject to section 865B, offset the amount of the overpayment (in whole or in part as appropriate) against any other liability of that person in accordance with section 960H or, as the case may be but subject to section 865, repay the amount of the overpayment (or the balance of it after any offset) to the person on whom the double assessment has been made.

(4)A person aggrieved by a decision of the Revenue Commissioners to not grant (to that person) relief under this section may appeal the decision to the Appeal Commissioners, in accordance with section 949I, within the period of 30 days after the date of the notice of that decision and such an appeal shall be treated as an appeal against an assessment for the purpose of section 949AK.

(5)Anything required to be done under this section by the Revenue Commissioners may be done by a Revenue officer.

959G.

Transmission to Collector-General of particulars of sums to be collected.

(1)In this section –

‘assessment’ has the same meaning as in Chapter 1A of Part 42 and, by virtue of section 959B(2), includes a self assessment;

‘tax’ has the same meaning as in Chapter 1A of Part 42.

(2)After assessments to tax have been made, a Revenue officer shall transmit particulars of the sums to be collected to the Collector-General or to a Revenue officer nominated in writing under section 960B for collection.

(3)The entering by a Revenue officer of details of an assessment to tax and of the tax charged in such an assessment in an electronic record from which the Collector-General or a Revenue officer nominated in writing under section 960B may extract such details by electronic means shall constitute transmission of such details by a Revenue officer to the Collector-General or to the Revenue officer nominated in writing under section 960B.

959H.

Amended assessment and notice of amended assessment.

For the purposes of the Acts, the other provisions of this Chapter shall with any necessary modifications apply in like manner to an amended assessment and a notice of an amended assessment as it applies to an assessment and a notice of assessment.

Chapter 3 Chargeable Persons: Returns (ss. 959I-959Q)
959I. Obligation to make a return.
(1)Every chargeable person shall as respects a chargeable period prepare and deliver to the Collector-General on or before the specified return date for the chargeable period a return in the prescribed form.

(2)The prescribed form referred to in subsection (1) may include such matters in relation to gift tax and inheritance tax as may be required by that form.

(3)Where under this Chapter a person delivers a return to the Collector-General, the person shall be deemed to have been required by a notice under section 877 to deliver a statement containing the matters and particulars contained in the return or to have been required by a notice under section 879, 880 or 884 to deliver the return, as the case may be.

(4)A chargeable person shall prepare and deliver to the Collector-General, a return for a chargeable period as required by this Chapter notwithstanding that the chargeable person has not received a notice to prepare and deliver a statement or return for that period under section 877, 879, 880 or 884, as the case may be.

(5)Nothing in the specified provisions or in a notice given under any of those provisions shall operate so as to require a chargeable person to deliver a return for a chargeable period on a date earlier than the specified return date for the chargeable period.

959J.

Requirements for returns for income tax and capital gains tax purposes.

In the case of a chargeable person who is chargeable to income tax or capital gains tax for a tax year, the return required by this Chapter shall include –

(a)all such matters and particulars as would be required to be contained in a statement delivered pursuant to a notice given to the chargeable person under section 877, if the period specified in such notice were the tax year,

(b)where the chargeable person is an individual who is chargeable to income tax or capital gains tax for a tax year, in addition to those matters and particulars referred to in paragraph (a), all such matters and particulars as would be required to be contained in a return for the tax year delivered pursuant to a notice given to the chargeable person under section 879, and

(c)such further particulars, including particulars relating to the preceding tax year where the profits or gains of that preceding year are determined in accordance with section 65(3), as may be required by the prescribed form.

959K.

Requirements for returns for corporation tax purposes.

In the case of a chargeable person who is chargeable to corporation tax for an accounting period, the return required by this Chapter shall include –

(a)all such matters, information, accounts, statements, reports and further particulars in relation to the accounting period as would be required to be contained in a return delivered pursuant to a notice given to the chargeable person under section 884, and

(b)such information, accounts, statements, reports and further particulars as may be required by the prescribed form.

959L.

Delivery of return by person acting under authority.

(1)A return required by this Chapter may be prepared and delivered by the chargeable person or by another person acting under the chargeable person’s authority in that regard.

(2)Where a return is prepared and delivered by that other person, the Acts shall apply as if it had been prepared and delivered by the chargeable person.

(3)A return purporting to be prepared and delivered by or on behalf of any chargeable person shall for the purposes of the Acts be deemed to have been prepared and delivered by that person or by that person’s authority, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.

959M.

Delivery of return by precedent partner.

The precedent partner of any partnership shall –

(a)be deemed to be a chargeable person for the purposes of this Chapter, and

(b)as respects any chargeable period, deliver to the Collector-General on or before the specified return date for that chargeable period the return which that partner would be required to deliver for that period under section 880, if notice under that section had been given to that partner before that specified date.

959N.

Exclusion from obligation to deliver a return.

(1)A Revenue officer may exclude a person from the application of this Chapter by giving the person a notice in writing stating that the person is excluded from its application.

(2)The notice shall have effect for such chargeable period or periods or until such chargeable period or until the happening of such event as is specified in the notice.

(3)Where a person who has been given a notice under this section is chargeable to capital gains tax for any chargeable period, this section shall not operate so as to remove the person’s obligation under this Chapter to make a return of the person’s chargeable gains for that chargeable period.

959O.

Failure to deliver a return.

(1)Any provision of the Acts relating to the taking of any action on the failure of a person to deliver a statement or return pursuant to a notice given under any of the sections referred to in section 959I(3) shall apply to a chargeable person in a case where such a notice has not been given as if the chargeable person had been given a notice on the specified return date for the chargeable period under such one or more of those sections as is appropriate to the provision in question.

(2)A certificate signed by a Revenue officer which certifies that he or she has examined the relevant records and that it appears from those records –

(a)that as respects a chargeable period a named person is a chargeable person, and

(b)that on or before the specified return date for the chargeable period a return in the prescribed form was not received from that chargeable person,

shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that the person so named is a chargeable person as respects that chargeable period and that that person did not on or before the specified return date deliver that return.

(3)A certificate certifying as provided by subsection (2) and purporting to be signed by a Revenue officer may be tendered in evidence without proof and shall be deemed until the contrary is proved to have been signed by such officer.

(4)Sections 1052 and 1054 shall apply to a failure by a chargeable person to deliver a return in accordance with this Chapter as they apply to a failure to deliver a return referred to in section 1052.

959P.

Expression of doubt.

(1)In this section –

‘law’ means one or more provisions of the Acts;

‘letter of expression of doubt’, in relation to a matter, means a communication by written or electronic means, as appropriate, which –

(a)sets out full details of the facts and circumstances of the matter,

(b)specifies the doubt, the basis for the doubt and the law giving rise to the doubt,

(c)identifies the amount of tax in doubt in respect of the chargeable period to which the expression of doubt relates,

(d)lists or identifies the supporting documentation that is being submitted to the appropriate inspector in relation to the matter, and

(e)is clearly identified as a letter of expression of doubt for the purposes of this section,

and reference to ‘an expression of doubt’ shall be construed accordingly.

(2)Where a chargeable person is in doubt as to the correct application of the law to any matter to be contained in a return required for a chargeable period by this Chapter, which could –

(a)give rise to a liability to tax by that person, or

(b)affect that person’s liability to tax or entitlement to an allowance, deduction, relief or tax credit,

then, the chargeable person may –

(i)prepare the return for the chargeable period to the best of that person’s belief as to the correct application of the law to the matter, and deliver the return to the Collector-General,

(ii)include a letter of expression of doubt with the return, and

(iii)submit supporting documentation to the appropriate inspector in relation to the matter.

(3)This section applies only if –

(a)the return referred to in subsection (2) is delivered to the Collector-General, and

(b)the documentation referred to in paragraph (iii) of that subsection is delivered to the appropriate inspector,

on or before the specified return date for the chargeable period involved.

(3A)

(a)The documentation referred to in subsection (3)(b) shall be delivered by electronic means where the return referred to in subsection (2) is delivered by electronic means.

(b)The electronic means by which the documentation referred to in subsection (3)(b) shall be delivered shall be such electronic means as may be specified by the Revenue Commissioners for that purpose.

(4)Where a return is delivered in accordance with subsection (2), a self assessment shall, where required under section 959R, be included in the return by reference to the particulars included in the return.

(5)Subject to subsection (6), where a letter of expression of doubt is included with a return delivered by a chargeable person to the Collector-General for a chargeable period –

(a)that person shall be treated as making a full and true disclosure with regard to the matter involved, and

(b)any additional tax arising from the amendment of an assessment for the chargeable period by a Revenue officer to give effect to the correct application of the law to that matter shall be due and payable in accordance with section 959AU(2).

(6)Subsection (5) does not apply where a Revenue officer does not accept as genuine an expression of doubt in respect of the application of the law to a matter, and an expression of doubt shall not be accepted as genuine in particular where –

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(b)the officer is of the opinion, having regard to any guidelines published by the Revenue Commissioners on the application of the law in similar circumstances and to any relevant supporting documentation delivered to the appropriate inspector in relation to the matter in accordance with subsections (2) and (3), that the matter is sufficiently free from doubt as not to warrant an expression of doubt, or

(c)the officer is of the opinion that the chargeable person was acting with a view to the evasion or avoidance of tax.

(7)Where a Revenue officer does not accept an expression of doubt as genuine, he or she shall notify the chargeable person accordingly and any additional tax arising from the amendment of an assessment for the chargeable period by a Revenue officer to give effect to the correct application of the law to the matter involved shall be due and payable in accordance with section 959AU(1).

(8)A person aggrieved by a Revenue officer’s decision that the person’s expression of doubt is not genuine may appeal the decision to the Appeal Commissioners, in accordance with section 949I, within the period of 30 days after the date of the notice of that decision.

959Q.

Miscellaneous (Chapter 3).

(1)

(a)This Chapter does not affect the giving of a notice under any of the specified provisions and does not remove from any person any obligation or requirement imposed on the person by such a notice.

(b)The giving of a notice under any of the specified provisions to a person does not remove from that person any obligation to prepare and deliver a return under this Chapter.

(c)The giving by a chargeable person of a notice pursuant to section 876 does not remove from the person an obligation to prepare and deliver a return under this Chapter.

(2)

(a)The Collector-General may designate an address for the delivery of returns which in accordance with this Chapter are required to be delivered to the Collector-General.

(b)Where the Collector-General designates an address under paragraph (a), that address shall be published in Iris Oifigiúil as soon as is practicable after such designation.

Chapter 4

Chargeable Persons: Self Assessments (ss. 959R-959X)

959R.

Inclusion of self assessment in return.

(1)Subject to sections 959S and 959T, every return prepared and delivered under Chapter 3 in respect of a chargeable period shall include a self assessment by the chargeable person to whom the return relates.

(2)A self assessment shall be made in, and as part of, the return and shall include such details as the Revenue Commissioners may require.

(3)The details referred to in subsection (2) shall include an assessment by the chargeable person, in accordance with the Acts, for the chargeable period involved of –

(a)the amount of the income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains arising to the person for the period,

(b)the amount of tax chargeable on the person for the period,

(c)the amount of tax payable by the person for the period, and

(d)the balance of tax, taking account of any amount of tax paid directly by the person to the Collector-General for the period, which under the Acts –

(i)is due and payable by the person to the Revenue Commissioners for the period, or

(ii)is overpaid by the person for the period and which, subject to the Acts, is available for offset or repayment by the Revenue Commissioners.

(4)

(a)Where a self assessment relates to tax chargeable on a person under more than one of the Acts, the self assessment shall identify the amount of tax chargeable under each of the Acts.

(b)Where by virtue of an enactment other than the Acts, an amount due under that enactment is to be assessed and charged as if it were an amount of income tax, the self assessment shall include such amount and shall identify the amount so chargeable by virtue of that enactment.

(c)A self assessment shall include and identify the amount of any surcharge which, under section 1084, is required to be included in the assessment for the chargeable period.

(5)Subject to subsection (6), where the obligation to make a return for a chargeable period is treated as fulfilled under Chapter 6 of Part 38 and the chargeable person –

(a)includes a self assessment in the return in accordance with such indicative tax calculation as may be provided by the electronic system that is made available by the Revenue Commissioners for the purposes of that Chapter, and

(b)pays tax in accordance with that calculation,

then, in the event that the indicative tax calculation is incorrect –

(i)any additional tax due for the chargeable period that arises by reason of the indicative tax being incorrect shall be deemed to be due and payable not later than one month from the date of amendment of the self assessment, and

(ii)Part 47 does not apply to the extent that the return included a self assessment that was in accordance with the indicative tax calculation.

(6)Subsection (5) applies where the chargeable person retains either an electronic or printed record of the indicative tax calculation and, on request from a Revenue officer, submits a copy of that record, and the various elements of the calculation are in accordance with the information, statements and particulars provided in the return.

959S.

Option for self assessment to be made by Revenue.

(1)An individual who is chargeable to income tax or capital gains tax for a tax year shall not be required to comply with section 959R where a return, which is delivered by means other than electronic means, is delivered on or before 31 August in the tax year following the tax year to which the return relates.

(2)Where subsection (1) applies, a Revenue officer shall make the self assessment on behalf of the chargeable person in accordance with section 959U.

(3)This section shall not apply to an individual who is, by virtue of section 917EA, a specified person who is required to deliver the return concerned by electronic means.

(4)Where the chargeable person is assessed to tax under section 1023 or 1031H, and his or her spouse or civil partner, as the case may be, is also a chargeable person, then, in relation to the return concerned, no self assessment shall be made under subsection (2) until such time as the spouse or civil partner, as the case may be, has delivered his or her return for the year of assessment.

959T.

Self assessment by person acting under authority.

Where a return is prepared and delivered in accordance with section 959L by another person acting under the chargeable person’s authority –

(a)the self assessment required under section 959R shall be made by that other person, and

(b)where the self assessment is so made by that other person –

(i)the Acts apply as if it had been made by the chargeable person, and

(ii)a self assessment purporting to have been made by or on behalf of any chargeable person shall for the purposes of the Acts be deemed to have been made by that person or by that person’s authority, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.

959U.

Self assessment by Revenue officer in relation to chargeable person.

(1)Where a chargeable person, or a person to whom section 959T applies, delivers a return but does not include a self assessment in the return, a Revenue officer, subject to section 959AA(1) –

(a)shall, where section 959S applies, and

(b)may, in any other case,

make the self assessment in relation to the chargeable person.

(2)Where a self assessment is made under this section, a Revenue officer shall give notice of the assessment in accordance with section 959E.

(3)Any self assessment made by a Revenue officer under this section shall be deemed to be a self assessment made by the chargeable person and references in the Acts to the self assessment of a chargeable person shall be treated as including a self assessment made under this section.

959V.

Amendment by chargeable person of return and of self assessment in return.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, a chargeable person may, by notice to the Revenue Commissioners, amend the return delivered by that person for a chargeable period.

(2)Where a return is amended in accordance with subsection (1), the chargeable person shall as part of that notice amend the self assessment for the chargeable period at the same time.

(2A)A return and self assessment may be amended under this section only where such an amendment –

(a)arises from an allowance, credit, deduction or relief due under the Acts,

(b)is necessary to correct either an error or a mistake, or

(c)is necessary to comply with any other provision of the Acts,

and notice of an amendment under this section shall specify which of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) applies.

(3)Subject to subsection (4), notice under this section shall be given in writing to a Revenue officer in the Revenue office dealing with the tax affairs of the chargeable person.

(4)

(a)Notice under this section in relation to the amendment of a return and a self assessment shall be given by electronic means where the return was delivered by electronic means.

(b)The electronic means by which notice under this section shall be given shall be such electronic means as may be specified by the Revenue Commissioners for that purpose.

(c)This subsection shall not apply to an amendment to a return or self assessment in so far as it relates to capital gains tax.

(5)Where another person, as referred to in section 959L, is acting under the chargeable person’s authority –

(a)notice under subsections (1) and (2) may be given by that other person, and

(b)where notice is so given by that other person –

(i)the Acts apply as if the return and the self assessment had been amended by the chargeable person, and

(ii)a return and a self assessment purporting to have been amended by or on behalf of any chargeable person shall for the purposes of the Acts be deemed to have been amended by that person or by that person’s authority, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.

(6)

(a)Subject to paragraph (b) and subsection (7), notice under this section in relation to a return and a self assessment may only be given within a period of 4 years after the end of the chargeable period to which the return relates.

(b)Where a provision of the Acts provides that a claim for an exemption, allowance, credit, deduction, repayment or any other relief from tax is required to be made within a period shorter than the period of 4 years referred to in paragraph (a), then notice of an amendment under this section shall not be given after the end of that shorter period where the amendment relates to either the making or adjustment of a claim for such exemption, allowance, credit, deduction, repayment or other relief.

(7)Notice under this section shall not be given in relation to a return and a self assessment after a Revenue officer has started to make enquiries under section 959Z in relation to the return or self assessment or after he or she has commenced an audit or other investigation which relates to the tax affairs of the person to whom the return or self assessment relates for the chargeable period involved.

(8)This section is without prejudice to the operation of section 1077E or 1077F, as appropriate.

959W.

Making of self assessment in accordance with return.

(1)A self assessment made by a chargeable person under section 959R shall be made by reference to the particulars contained in the chargeable person’s return for the chargeable period involved.

(2)A self assessment amended by a chargeable person under section 959V shall be amended by reference to the particulars contained in the chargeable person’s return, as amended by notice under that section, for the chargeable period involved.

(3)A self assessment made by a Revenue officer in relation to a chargeable person under section 959U shall be made by reference to the particulars contained in the chargeable person’s return for the chargeable period involved.

(4)Nothing in this Chapter prevents a Revenue officer from making a Revenue assessment on a chargeable person under Chapter 5 and where a Revenue officer makes an assessment under that Chapter any self assessment previously made under this Chapter shall, for the purposes of determining the chargeable person’s liability to tax for the chargeable period, be treated as if it had not been made and shall be void for such purposes.

(5)Nothing in this Chapter prevents a Revenue officer from amending, under Chapter 5, a self assessment previously made under this Chapter.

959X.

Penalty for failure to make or amend self assessment.

(1)A person who is required under this Chapter to make a self assessment in a return prepared and delivered under Chapter 3 for a chargeable period and who does not make the self assessment in the return shall be liable to a penalty of €250.

(2)A person who is required under this Chapter to amend a self assessment in a return amended by notice under section 959V for a chargeable period and who does not amend the self assessment in the return shall be liable to a penalty of €100.

Chapter 5

Revenue Assessments and Enquiries and Related Time Limits (ss. 959Y-959AE)

959Y.

Chargeable persons and other persons: assessment made or amended by Revenue officer.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, a Revenue officer may at any time –

(a)make a Revenue assessment on a person for a chargeable period in such amount as, according to the officer’s best judgment, ought to be charged on the person,

(b)amend a Revenue assessment on, or a self assessment in relation to, a person for a chargeable period in such manner as he or she considers necessary, notwithstanding that –

(i)tax may have been paid or repaid in respect of the assessment, or

(ii)the assessment may have been amended on a previous occasion or on previous occasions.

(2)For the purpose of making an assessment on or in relation to a chargeable person for a chargeable period or for the purpose of amending such an assessment, a Revenue officer –

(a)may accept either in whole or in part any statement or other particular contained in a return delivered by the chargeable person for that chargeable period, and

(b)may assess any amount of income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains, or allow any allowance, deduction, relief or tax credit by reference to such statement or particular.

(3)The amendment of an assessment by a Revenue officer does not preclude that Revenue officer or any other Revenue officer from further amending the assessment in such manner as he or she considers necessary.

(4)

(a)Where any amount of income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains is omitted from, or not properly reflected in, an assessment for a chargeable period or the tax stated in an assessment is less than the tax payable by the chargeable person for the chargeable period, then a Revenue officer may make such amendments to the assessment as are necessary to ensure that the assessment includes the correct amount or to ensure that the tax stated in the assessment is equal to the tax payable by the chargeable person for the chargeable period.

(b)For the purposes of paragraph (a), the amendment of an assessment by a Revenue officer may include the addition of an amount of income, profits or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains that is not reflected in the assessment.

959Z.

Right of Revenue officer to make enquiries.

(1)A Revenue officer may, subject to this section, make such enquiries or take such actions within his or her powers as he or she considers necessary to satisfy himself or herself as to –

(a)whether a person is chargeable to tax for a chargeable period,

(b)whether a person is a chargeable person as respects a chargeable period,

(c)the amount of income, profit or gains or, as the case may be, chargeable gains in relation to which a person is chargeable to tax for a chargeable period, or

(d)the entitlement of a person to any allowance, deduction, relief or tax credit for a chargeable period.

(2)The making of an assessment or the amendment of an assessment in accordance with subsection (2) of section 959Y by reference to any statement or particular referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection does not preclude a Revenue officer from, subject to this section, making such enquiries or taking such actions within his or her powers as he or she considers necessary to satisfy himself or herself as to the accuracy or otherwise of that statement or particular.

(3)Subject to subsection (4), any enquiries or actions to which either subsection (1) or (2) applies shall not be made in the case of a chargeable person for a chargeable period at any time after the expiry of the period of 4 years commencing at the end of the chargeable period in which the chargeable person has delivered a return for the chargeable period.

(4)Enquiries and actions to which either subsection (1) or (2) applies may be made at any time in relation to a person or a return for a chargeable period where –

(a)any of the circumstances referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 959AC(2) apply, or

(b)a Revenue officer has reasonable grounds for believing, in accordance with section 959AD(3), that any form of fraud or neglect has been committed by or on behalf of the person in connection with or in relation to tax due for the chargeable period.

(5)[deleted]

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(9)Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 811, 811A, 811C or 811D.

959AA.

Chargeable persons: time limit on assessment made or amended by Revenue officer.

(1)Where a chargeable person has delivered a return for a chargeable period and has made in the return a full and true disclosure of all material facts necessary for the making of an assessment for the chargeable period –

(a)an assessment for that period, or

(b)an amendment of an assessment for that period,

shall not be made by a Revenue officer on the chargeable person after the end of 4 years commencing at the end of the chargeable period in which the return is delivered and –

(i)no additional tax shall be payable by the chargeable person after the end of that period of 4 years, and

(ii)no tax shall be repaid after the end of a period of 4 years commencing at the end of the chargeable period for which the return is delivered,

by reason of any matter contained in the return.

(2)Nothing in this section prevents a Revenue officer from, at any time, amending an assessment for a chargeable period –

(a)where the return for the period does not contain a full and true disclosure of all material facts necessary for the making of an assessment for that period,

(b)to give effect to –

(i)a determination of an appeal against an assessment,

(ii)a determination of an appeal, other than one made against an assessment, that affects the amount of tax charged by the assessment, or

(iii)an agreement within the meaning of section 949V.

(c)to take account of any fact or matter arising by reason of an event occurring after the return is delivered,

(d)to correct an error in calculation in the assessment, or

(e)to correct a mistake of fact whereby any matter in the assessment does not properly reflect the facts disclosed by the chargeable person,

and tax shall be paid or repaid (notwithstanding any limitation in section 865(4) on the time within which a claim for a repayment of tax is required to be made) where appropriate in accordance with any such amendment.

(2A)Notwithstanding subsection (1), section 959AB(1) and any limitation in the Acts on the time within which a claim for relief from tax is required to be made, a Revenue officer may, at any time, make or amend an assessment for a chargeable period to give effect to a mutual agreement reached, under an arrangement having the force of law by virtue of section 826(1), between the competent authority of the State and a competent authority of another jurisdiction and tax shall be paid or repaid (notwithstanding any limitation in section 865(4) on the time within which a claim for repayment of tax is required to be made) where appropriate in accordance with any such assessment or amended assessment.

(3)Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 804(3), 811, 811A, 811C, 811D or 1048.

959AB.

Persons other than chargeable persons: time limit on Revenue assessment and amended assessment.

(1)Subject to the other provisions of this section, a Revenue assessment on a person other than a chargeable person may be made or amended by a Revenue officer at any time not later than 4 years after the end of the chargeable period to which the assessment relates.

(2)In a case in which emoluments to which subsection (3) applies are received in a year of assessment subsequent to that for which they are assessable, a Revenue assessment on a person other than a chargeable person may be made or amended by a Revenue officer for the year of assessment for which the emoluments are assessable at any time not later than 4 years after the end of the year of assessment in which the emoluments were received.

(3)The emoluments to which this subsection applies are –

(a)emoluments within the meaning of section 112(2), including any payments chargeable to tax by virtue of section 123 and any sums which by virtue of Chapter 3 of Part 5 are to be treated as perquisites of a person’s office or employment, being emoluments, payments or sums other than those taken into account in an and assessment to income tax for the year of assessment in which they are received and, for the purposes of subsection (2) –

(i)any such payment shall, notwithstanding anything in section 123(4), be treated as having been received at the time it was actually received, and

(ii)any such sums which are not actually paid to that person shall be treated as having been received at the time when the relevant expenses were incurred or are treated for the purposes of Chapter 3 of Part 5 as having been incurred,

and

(b)a gain realised by the exercise of, or by the assignment or release of, a right on or after 1 January 2024 which is chargeable to tax by virtue of section 128.

(4)Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 811, 811A, 811C or 811D.

959AC.

Chargeable persons: Revenue assessment and amendment of assessments in absence of return, etc.

(1)In this section ‘information’ includes information received from a member of the Garda Síochána.

(2)Notwithstanding section 959AA, where in relation to a chargeable person –

(a)the person fails to deliver a return for a chargeable period,

(b)a Revenue officer is not satisfied with the sufficiency of a return delivered by the person having regard to any information received in that regard, or

(c)a Revenue officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a return delivered by the person does not contain a full and true disclosure of all material facts necessary for the making of an assessment for the chargeable period,

then a Revenue officer may, at any time, make a Revenue assessment on the chargeable person for the chargeable period in such sum as, according to the best of the officer’s judgment, ought to be charged on that person.

(3)Where a Revenue officer makes a Revenue assessment on a chargeable person under this section in the event of the failure of the person to deliver a return, it shall not be necessary to set out in the notice of assessment any particulars other than the amount of tax payable by the person for the chargeable period on the basis of that assessment.

(4)In any of the circumstances referred to in subsection (2), a Revenue officer may, at any time, amend a Revenue assessment on, or a self assessment in relation to, a chargeable person for the chargeable period involved in such manner as the officer considers necessary.

959AD.

Chargeable persons and other persons: Revenue assessment and amendment of assessments where there is fraud or neglect.

(1)In this section ‘neglect’ means negligence or a failure to give any notice, to make any return, statement or declaration, or to produce or furnish any list, document or other information required by or under the Acts.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed not to have failed to do anything required to be done within a limited time if the person did it within such further time, if any, as the Revenue Commissioners or Revenue officer concerned may have allowed and, where a person had a reasonable excuse for not doing anything required to be done, the person shall be deemed not to have failed to do it if the person did it without unreasonable delay after the excuse had ceased.

(3)Notwithstanding sections 959AA and 959AB, where a Revenue officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any form of fraud or neglect has been committed by or on behalf of a person in connection with or in relation to tax due for a chargeable period, a Revenue officer may, at any time, make a Revenue assessment on that person for the chargeable period.

(4)An assessment to which this section applies shall be made by a Revenue officer in such sum as, according to the best of the officer’s judgment, ought to be charged on the person involved.

(5)In the circumstances referred to in subsection (3), a Revenue officer may, at any time, amend a Revenue assessment on, or a self assessment in relation to, a person for a chargeable period in such manner as the officer considers necessary.

959AE. Other Revenue assessments and miscellaneous matters.
(1)Nothing in this Chapter prevents an inspector or other Revenue officer from making an assessment in accordance with –

(a)section 960Q,

(b)section 977(3) or subsection (2) or (3) of section 978, as appropriate, and, notwithstanding Chapter 7, tax specified in such an assessment shall be due and payable in accordance with section 979,

(c)subsection (5A) or (6), as appropriate, of section 980 and, notwithstanding Chapter 7, tax specified in such an assessment shall be due and payable in accordance with that section 980, or

(d)section 1042 and, notwithstanding Chapter 7, tax specified in such an assessment shall be due and payable in accordance with that section.

(2)Subject to subsection (1), an assessment under this Chapter shall not be made on a chargeable person for a chargeable period at any time before the specified return date for the chargeable period unless at that time the chargeable person has delivered a return for the chargeable period.

(3)Nothing in this Chapter affects the right of an inspector or other Revenue officer to make or amend an assessment where a provision of the Acts (other than this Chapter) includes either a right to assess or charge a person to tax or a right to make or amend an assessment on a person.

(4)An assessment which is otherwise final and conclusive shall not for any purpose of the Acts be regarded as not final and conclusive or as ceasing to be final and conclusive by reason only of the fact that a Revenue officer has amended or may amend the assessment.

(5)After an assessment has been made, it shall not be amended unless such amendment is authorised by the Acts.

Chapter 7

Chargeable Persons: Preliminary Tax and Dates for Payment of Tax (ss. 959AM-959AV)

959AM.

Interpretation and miscellaneous (Chapter 7).

(1)In this Chapter –

“accounting period” means an accounting period of a company;

“corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period” in relation to an accounting period and a company, means an amount determined by the formula – where –
Tis the corporation tax payable for the preceding accounting period
Cis the number of days in the accounting period, and
Pis the number of days in the preceding accounting period;

“corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period” in relation to an accounting period and a company, means an amount determined by the formula – where –
Iis the income tax payable under section 239 or 241 for the preceding accounting period
Cis the number of days in the accounting period, and
Pis the number of days in the preceding accounting period;

“final instalment” shall be construed in accordance with section 959AS(1);

“final relevant instalment” shall be construed in accordance with section 959AS(5);

“initial instalment” shall be construed in accordance with section 959AS(1);

“initial relevant instalment” shall be construed in accordance with section 959AS(5);

“pre-preceding tax year” in relation to income tax and a tax year, means the tax year next before the preceding tax year;

“relevant accounting standards” has the same meaning as in Schedule 17A;

“relevant company” means a company in respect of which profits or gains for the purposes of Case I or II of Schedule D are computed in accordance with relevant accounting standards, which are, or include, relevant accounting standards in relation to profits or gains or losses on financial assets or liabilities;

“relevant limit” in relation to an accounting period, means, subject to subsection (3), €200,000;

“small company” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (4);

“tax payable for the initial period” in relation to capital gains tax and a tax year, means the tax that would be payable by the chargeable person if the tax year ended on 30 November in the year instead of 31 December in that year;

“tax payable for the later period” in relation to capital gains tax and a tax year, means the tax payable by the chargeable person for the tax year less the tax payable for the initial period in relation to that year.

(2)An accounting period is not a relevant accounting period where, but for this subsection, the final instalment of preliminary tax would, by reason of the dates on which the accounting period starts and ends, be due and payable in accordance with section 959AS(2) on or before the date on which the initial instalment would be due and payable in accordance with that section.

(3A)Where, apart from this subsection, C or, as the case may be, P in the definitions in subsection (1) of ‘corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period’ and ‘corresponding income tax for the 25 preceding accounting period’ would be 366 in the case where the accounting period concerned contains the date 29 February, then, in that case, C or, as the case may be, P in those definitions shall be deemed to be 365.

(3)Where the length of an accounting period is less than 12 months, the relevant limit in relation to the accounting period shall be proportionately reduced.

(4)A company is a small company in relation to an accounting period if the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period does not exceed the relevant limit in relation to the accounting period.

(5)References in this Chapter to the due date for the payment of an amount of preliminary tax shall, in the case where that tax is due for an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company, be construed in accordance with section 959AR(1).

(6)References in this Chapter to the due date for the payment of the initial instalment, or the final instalment, of preliminary tax shall, in the case where that tax is due for a relevant accounting period, be construed in accordance with section 959AS(2).

(7)The provisions of this Chapter apply as respects chargeable persons only.

(8)The provisions of this Chapter as respects due dates for payment of tax apply subject to sections 579(4)(b) and 981.

959AN.

Obligation to pay preliminary tax.

(1)Every person who is a chargeable person as respects any chargeable period is liable to pay to the Collector-General in accordance with this Chapter the amount of that person’s preliminary tax appropriate to that chargeable period.

(2)The amount of a chargeable person’s preliminary tax appropriate to a chargeable period is the amount of tax which in the opinion of the chargeable person is likely to become payable by that person for the chargeable period by reason of either a self assessment under Chapter 4 or a Revenue assessment under Chapter 5.

(2A)Reference in subsection (2) to the amount of tax which in the opinion of the chargeable person is likely to become payable shall be construed in accordance with the definition of ‘amount of tax payable’ in section 959A.

(3)Any amount of preliminary tax appropriate to a chargeable period which is paid by and not repaid to a chargeable person in any capacity shall, to the extent of the amount of that payment or the extent of the amount of that payment less any amount that has been repaid, be treated as a payment on account of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the chargeable period.

(4)Where –

(a)the tax payable by a company for an accounting period does not exceed the relevant limit, and

(b)the accounting period started on the company coming within the charge to corporation tax,

then the preliminary tax appropriate to the accounting period shall be deemed to be nil and neither subsection (3) of section 959AR nor subsection (4) of section 959AS apply as respects that accounting period.

(5)This section does not apply to capital gains tax.

959AO.

Date for payment of income tax.

(1)Subject to section 959AP, preliminary tax appropriate to a tax year for income tax purposes is due and payable on or before 31 October in the tax year.

(2)

(a)Subject to subsections (3) to (6), income tax payable by a chargeable person for a tax year shall be due and payable on or before the specified return date for the tax year whether or not an assessment is made on or by the chargeable person for the tax year on or before that date.

(b)Where an assessment to income tax for a tax year has not been made on or by a chargeable person on or before the specified return date for the tax year then the amount of tax payable that is specified in any subsequent assessment made on or by the chargeable person for that year shall be deemed to have been due and payable on or before the specified return date for the tax year.

(3)Income tax payable by a chargeable person for a tax year shall be deemed to have been due and payable on 31 October in the tax year where –

(a)the chargeable person has defaulted in the payment of preliminary tax for the tax year,

(b)the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the tax year is less than, or less than the least of, as the case may be –

(i)90 per cent of the income tax payable by the chargeable person for the tax year,

(ii)the income tax payable by the chargeable person for the preceding tax year, and

(iii)in the case of a chargeable person to whom section 959AP applies (other than a chargeable person in relation to whom the amount of income tax payable, or taken in accordance with subsection (4)(a) to be payable, for the pre-preceding tax year was nil), 105 per cent of the income tax payable by the chargeable person for the pre-preceding tax year,

(c)the preliminary tax payable by the chargeable person for the tax year was not paid by 31 October in the tax year.

(4)For the purposes of subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of subsection (3)(b) –

(a)subject to subsection (5), where the chargeable person was not a chargeable person for the preceding tax year or for the pre-preceding tax year, the income tax payable for the preceding year or the pre-preceding year, as the case may be, shall be taken to be nil,

(b)where, after 31 October in a tax year, an amount of additional income tax for the preceding tax year or, in the case of a chargeable person to whom section 959AP applies, the pre-preceding tax year becomes payable, that additional income tax shall not be taken into account if it became due and payable one month following the amendment to the assessment or the determination of the appeal, as the case may be, by virtue of section 959AU(2) or section 959AV(2), and

(c)the tax payable for the preceding tax year, or in the case of a chargeable person to whom section 959AP applies, the pre-preceding tax year, shall be determined without regard to any relief to which the chargeable person is or may become entitled for the preceding year or the pre-preceding year, as the case may be, under section 481 or Part 16.

(5)Where, for a tax year, a chargeable person is assessed to income tax in accordance with section 1017 or 1031C, and that person was not so assessed for the preceding tax year or for the pre-preceding tax year or for both of those years either –

(a)because the person’s spouse or civil partner was so assessed for either or both of those years, or

(b)because the person and the person’s spouse or civil partner were assessed to income tax in accordance with section 1016 or 1023, or section 1031B or 1031H, as the case may be, for either or both of those years,

subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of subsection (3)(b) and subsection (4)(a) apply as if the person and the person’s spouse or civil partner had elected in accordance with section 1018, 1019 or 1031D, as the case may be, for the person to be assessed to income tax in accordance with section 1017 or 1031C for any of those years for which the person or the person’s spouse or civil partner were entitled to so elect or, in the case of married persons, would have been so entitled if section 1019 had applied.

(6)

(a)Where, in relation to a tax year, the profits or gains of a corresponding period relating to the preceding tax year are taken to be the profits or gains of that preceding tax year in accordance with section 65(3), then, notwithstanding that the assessment for that preceding tax year has not been amended, any income tax payable for that preceding tax year which exceeds the income tax due and payable for that year without regard to the operation of section 65(3) is due and payable on or before the specified return date for the tax year.

(b)An amount of income tax to which paragraph (a) applies shall not be taken into account for the purposes of subsection (3).

(c)Notwithstanding section 959AU, where, in relation to a tax year, any additional tax for the preceding tax year is due and payable by virtue of an amendment of the assessment for that year made in accordance with section 65(3), then, such additional tax as specified in the amendment to the assessment for that year shall be deemed to have been due and payable on or before the specified return date for the tax year.

959AP.

Payment of preliminary tax by direct debit.

(1)This section applies to a chargeable person who –

(a)authorises the Collector-General to collect preliminary tax for income tax purposes by the debiting of a bank account of that person in accordance with subsection (2), and

(b)complies with such conditions as the Collector-General may reasonably impose to ensure that an amount of preliminary tax payable by a chargeable person for a tax year will be paid by the chargeable person in accordance with this section.

(2)Preliminary tax appropriate to a tax year for income tax purposes is due and payable in the case of a chargeable person to whom this subsection applies –

(a)as respects the first tax year for which the Collector-General is authorised in accordance with subsection (1) to debit that person’s bank account, by way of a minimum of 3 equal monthly instalments in that year, and

(b)as respects any subsequent tax year in which the Collector-General is so authorised, by way of a minimum of 8 equal monthly instalments in that year,

and the Collector-General shall debit the bank account of that person with such instalments on day 9 of each month for which the Collector-General is so authorised.

(3)The Collector-General may, in any particular case, in order to facilitate the payment of preliminary tax in accordance with this section, agree at the Collector-General’s discretion to vary the number of equal monthly instalments to be collected in a year or agree at the Collector-General’s discretion to an increase or decrease in the amount to be collected in any subsequent instalment to be made in that year.

(4)A chargeable person shall not be treated as having paid an amount of preliminary tax in accordance with this subsection unless that person pays in the tax year the monthly instalments due in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), as appropriate.

(5)For the purposes of section 959AO, a chargeable person who pays an amount of preliminary tax appropriate to a tax year in accordance with this section shall be deemed to have paid that amount of preliminary tax on 31 October in the tax year.

959AQ.

Date for payment of capital gains tax.

(1)Capital gains tax payable by a chargeable person for a tax year is, where an assessment has not been made on or by the chargeable person for the tax year, due and payable –

(a)as respects tax payable for the initial period, on or before 15 December in the tax year, and

(b)as respects tax payable for the later period, on or before 31 January in the next following tax year.

(2)Where the capital gains tax payable by a chargeable person for a tax year is due and payable in accordance with subsection (1), then the amount of tax payable that is specified in any subsequent assessment made on or by the chargeable person for that year shall be deemed to have been due and payable –

(a)on or before 15 December in the tax year, as respects tax payable for the initial period, and

(b)on or before 31 January in the next following tax year, as respects tax payable for the later period.

959AR. Date for payment of corporation tax: companies other than with relevant accounting periods.
(1)Preliminary tax appropriate to an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company is due and payable –

(a)subject to paragraph (b), not later than the day (in this paragraph referred to as the ‘first-mentioned day’) which is 31 days before the day on which the accounting period ends, but where the first-mentioned day is later than day 21 of the month in which it occurs, the preliminary tax shall be due and payable not later than –

(i)day 21 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs, or

(ii)where payment of the preliminary tax is made by day 23 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs,

(b)in a case where the accounting period is less than one month and one day in length, not later than the last day of the accounting period, but where that day is later than day 21 of the month in which it occurs, the preliminary tax is due and payable not later than –

(i)day 21 of the month in which that last day occurs, or

(ii)where payment of the preliminary tax is made by day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs.

(2)

(a)Subject to subsections (3) and (4), tax payable by a chargeable person for an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company shall be due and payable on or before the specified return date for the accounting period.

(b)Where the tax payable by a chargeable person for an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company is due and payable in accordance with paragraph (a), then the amount of tax payable that is specified in any subsequent assessment made on or by the chargeable person for that accounting period shall be deemed to have been due and payable on or before the specified return date for the accounting period.

(3)Subject to subsection (4), the tax payable by a chargeable person for an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company shall be deemed to have been due and payable on the due date for the payment of an amount of preliminary tax for the accounting period where –

(a)the chargeable person has defaulted in the payment of preliminary tax for the accounting period,

(b)in the case of a company that is a small company in relation to the accounting period, the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is less than, or less than the lower of –

(i)90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period, and

(ii)the sum of the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period and the corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period,

(c)in the case of a company that is not a small company in relation to the accounting period, the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period, or

(d)the preliminary tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period was not paid by the date on which it was due and payable.

(4)Where as respects an accounting period, other than a relevant accounting period, of a company –

(a)for accounting periods other than those referred to in paragraph (b) –

(i)the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (1) is less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(ii)the preliminary tax so paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is not less than 90 per cent of the amount of tax which would be payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if no amount were included in the company’s profits for the accounting period –

(I)in respect of chargeable gains on the disposal of assets in the part of the accounting period which is after the date by which preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (1), or

(II)in the case of a relevant company, in respect of profits or gains or losses accruing, and not realised, in the accounting period on financial assets or financial liabilities as are attributable to changes in value of those assets or liabilities in the part of the accounting period which is after the end of the month immediately preceding the month in which preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (1),

and

(iii)the chargeable person makes a further payment of preliminary tax for the accounting period within one month after the end of the accounting period and the aggregate of that payment and the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (1) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(b)for accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2022 and ending on or before 31 December 2027 –

(III)in respect of a disallowable amount (within the meaning of Part 35D),

(iii)the chargeable person makes a further payment, if required, of preliminary tax for the accounting period within one month after the end of the accounting period and the aggregate of that payment and the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (1) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if no amount were included in the company’s profits for the accounting period in respect of a disallowable amount (within the meaning of Part 35D),

(iv)the chargeable person makes a further payment of preliminary tax, if required, for the accounting period within a period of 6 months after the end of the accounting period, but where the last day of that period of 6 months is later than day 21 of the month in which it occurs, the further payment of preliminary tax for the accounting period is paid no later than –

(I)day 21 of the month in which that last day occurs, or

(II)where payment is made by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs,

and

(v)following the making of any payment referred to in subparagraph (iii) or (iv), the aggregate of those payments and the preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (1) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

then the further payment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (3) as having been paid by the date by which it is due and payable.

959AS.

Date for payment of corporation tax: companies with relevant accounting periods.

(1)Subject to subsection (1A), preliminary tax appropriate to a relevant accounting period is due and payable in 2 instalments, the first of which is referred to in this section as the ‘initial instalment’ and the second of which is referred to in this section as the ‘final instalment’.

(1A)Where a company, that comes within the charge to corporation tax under Case V of Schedule D pursuant to section 25(2A) on or after 1 January 2022, has an accounting period ending on or before 30 June 2022, preliminary tax appropriate to that accounting period is due and payable –

(a)not later than 21 June 2022, or

(b)where payment of preliminary tax is made by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, not later than 23 June 2022.

(2)

(a)The initial instalment is due and payable within a period of 6 months from the start of the accounting period, but where the last day of that period of 6 months is later than day 21 of the month in which it occurs, the initial instalment is due and payable not later than –

(i)day 21 of the month in which that last day occurs, or

(ii)where payment of the initial instalment is made by day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs.

(b)The final instalment is due and payable not later than the day (in this paragraph referred to as the ‘first-mentioned day’) which is 31 days before the day on which the accounting period ends, but where the first-mentioned day is later than day 21 of the month in which it occurs, the final instalment is due and payable not later than –

(i)day 21 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs, or

(ii)where payment of the final instalment is made by day 23 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that first-mentioned day occurs.

(3)

(a)Subject to subsections (4) to (7), tax payable by a chargeable person for a relevant accounting period is due and payable on or before the specified return date for the accounting period.

(b)Where the tax payable by a chargeable person for a relevant accounting period is due and payable in accordance with paragraph (a), then the amount of tax payable that is specified in any subsequent assessment made on or by the chargeable person for that accounting period shall be deemed to have been due and payable on or before the specified return date for the accounting period.

(4)Subject to subsections (6) and (7) and section 959AT, the tax payable by a chargeable person for a relevant accounting period shall be deemed to have been due and payable in accordance with subsection (5) where –

(a)the chargeable person has defaulted in the payment of the initial instalment or final instalment of preliminary tax for the accounting period,

(b)the initial instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is less than, or less than the lower of –

(i)45 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period, and

(ii)50 per cent of the sum of the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period and the corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period,

(c)in a case where the accounting period commenced on the company coming within the charge to corporation tax, the initial instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is less than 45 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(d)the aggregate of the initial instalment and the final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period, or

(e)the initial instalment or the final instalment of preliminary tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period was not paid by the date on which it was due and payable.

(5)

(a)Tax due and payable in accordance with this subsection by a chargeable person for a relevant accounting period is due and payable in 2 instalments, the first of which is referred to in this subsection as the ‘initial relevant instalment’ and the second of which is referred to in this subsection as the ‘final relevant instalment’.

(b)The amount of the initial relevant instalment is 45 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period and the initial relevant instalment is due and payable not later than the day on which the initial instalment of preliminary tax is due and payable in accordance with subsection (2).

(c)The amount of the final relevant instalment is an amount equal to the excess of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period over the amount of the initial relevant instalment and the final relevant instalment is due and payable not later than the day on which the final instalment of preliminary tax is due and payable in accordance with subsection (2).

(6)Where as respects a relevant accounting period –

(a)the initial instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is less than 45 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(b)the initial instalment of preliminary tax so paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is not less than 45 per cent of the amount of tax which would be payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if no amount were included in the company’s profits for the accounting period –

(i)in respect of chargeable gains on the disposal of assets in the part of the accounting period which is after the date by which the initial instalment of preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (2), or

(ii)in the case of a relevant company, in respect of profits or gains or losses accruing, and not realised, in the accounting period on financial assets or financial liabilities as are attributable to changes in value of those assets or liabilities in the part of the accounting period which is after the end of the month immediately preceding the month in which the initial instalment of preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (2),

(c)the aggregate of the initial instalment and the final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is not less than 90 per cent of the amount of tax which would be payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if computed in accordance with subsection (7)(b),

then the initial instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (4) as having been paid by the date on which it is due and payable.

(7)Where, as respects a relevant accounting period, either –

(a)for accounting periods other than those referred to in paragraph (b) –

(i)the aggregate of the initial instalment and the final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(ii)the aggregate of the initial instalment and the final instalment of preliminary tax so paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period is not less than 90 per cent of the amount of tax which would be payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if no amount were included in the company’s profits for the accounting period –

(I)in respect of chargeable gains on the disposal of assets in the part of the accounting period which is after the date by which the final instalment of preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (2), or

(II)in the case of a relevant company, in respect of profits or gains or losses accruing, and not realised, in the accounting period on financial assets or financial liabilities as are attributable to changes in value of those assets or liabilities in the part of the accounting period which is after the end of the month immediately preceding the month in which the final instalment of preliminary tax for the accounting period is payable in accordance with subsection (2),

and

(iii)the chargeable person makes a further payment of preliminary tax for the accounting period within one month after the end of the accounting period and the aggregate of that payment and the initial instalment and final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

(b)for accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2022 and ending on or before 31 December 2027 –

(III)in respect of a disallowable amount (within the meaning of Part 35D),

(iii)

the chargeable person makes a further payment of preliminary tax, if required, for the accounting period within one month after the end of the accounting period and the aggregate of that payment and the initial instalment and final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period if no amount were included in the company’s profits for the accounting period in respect of a disallowable amount (within the meaning of Part 35D),

(I)day 21 of the month in which that last day occurs, or

(II)where payment is made by such electronic means as are required by the Revenue Commissioners, day 23 of the month in which that last day occurs,

and

(v)following the making of any payment referred to in subparagraph (iii) or (iv), the aggregate of those payments and the initial instalment and final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) is not less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the chargeable person for the accounting period,

the final instalment of preliminary tax paid by the chargeable person for the accounting period shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (4) as having been paid by the date on which it is due and payable.

959AT.

Date for payment of corporation tax: groups.

(1)In this section –

‘initial balance’ means the amount represented by the formula –

A – B

where –

Ais the amount of the initial instalment of preliminary tax paid by the surrendering company for the relevant period in accordance with subsection (2) of section 959AS, and

Bis –

(a)where the relevant period started on the surrendering company coming within the charge to corporation tax –

(i)45 per cent of the tax payable by the surrendering company for the relevant period, or

(ii)where subsection (4) of section 959AN applies in relation to that period, a nil amount,

(b)in any other case, the lower of –

(i)45 per cent of the tax payable by the surrendering company for the relevant period, or

(ii)50 per cent of the sum of the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period and the corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period, which is payable by the surrendering company;

‘final balance’ means the amount represented by the formula –

C – D

where –

Cis the amount of preliminary tax paid by the surrendering company for the relevant period in accordance with section 959AR(1) or section 959AS(2), as the case may be, and

Dis 90 per cent of the tax payable by the surrendering company for the relevant period, or, where subsection (4) of section 959AN applies in relation to that period, a nil amount;

‘relevant initial balance’ means that part of an initial balance that is specified in a notice given in accordance with subsection (3);

‘relevant final balance’ means that part of a final balance that is specified in a notice given in accordance with subsection (3).

(2)This section applies where –

(a)a company (in this section referred to as the ‘surrendering company’) which is a member of a group pays –

(i)an initial instalment of preliminary tax for an accounting period (in this subsection referred to as the ‘relevant period’) in accordance with subsection (2) of section 959AS, being an amount which exceeds, or exceeds the lower of –

(I)45 per cent of the tax payable by that surrendering company for the relevant period, and

(II)50 per cent of the sum of the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period and the corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period, that is payable by the surrendering company,

(ii)an initial instalment of preliminary tax for a relevant period which started on the surrendering company coming within the charge to corporation tax, being an amount which exceeds 45 per cent of the tax payable by that company for the relevant period,

(iii)an amount of preliminary tax for a relevant period in accordance with section 959AR(1) or section 959AS(2), as the case may be, being an amount which exceeds 90 per cent of the tax payable by the surrendering company for the relevant period, or

(iv)any amount of preliminary tax for a relevant period in respect of which subsection (4) of section 959AN applies,

(b)another company (in this section referred to as the ‘claimant company’) which is a member of the group pays –

(i)an initial instalment of preliminary tax for an accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) of section 959AS, being an amount which is less than, or less than the lower of –

(I)45 per cent of the tax payable by the claimant company for the accounting period, and

(II)50 per cent of the sum of the corresponding corporation tax for the preceding accounting period and the corresponding income tax for the preceding accounting period, which is payable by the claimant company,

(ii)an initial instalment of preliminary tax for an accounting period which started on the claimant company coming within the charge to corporation tax, being an amount which is less than 45 per cent of the tax payable by that company for the relevant period, or

(iii)an amount of preliminary tax for an accounting period in accordance with subsection (2) of section 959AS, being an amount which is less than 90 per cent of the tax payable by the claimant company for the accounting period,

(c)the accounting period in paragraph (b) coincides with the relevant period, and

(d)the claimant company is not a small company in relation to the relevant period.

(3)Where this section applies, the 2 companies may, at any time on or before the specified return date for the accounting period of the surrendering company, jointly give notice to the Collector-General –

(a)that subsection (4)(a) is to have effect in relation to the relevant initial balance, or

(b)that subsection (4)(b) is to have effect in relation to the relevant final balance.

(4)

(a)Where this subsection has effect in relation to any relevant initial balance –

(i)an additional amount of preliminary tax equal to the relevant initial balance shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (4)(b) of section 959AS to have been paid by the claimant company on the due date for the payment of the initial instalment of preliminary tax of that company for the relevant period if 100 per cent of the tax payable by the claimant company for the relevant period, disregarding this subparagraph, is paid on or before the specified return date for the relevant period, and

(ii)the surrendering company shall for the purposes of this section be treated as having surrendered the relevant initial balance to the claimant company and that relevant initial balance shall not be available for use by any other company under this section.

(b)Where this subsection has effect in relation to any relevant final balance –

(i)an additional amount of preliminary tax equal to the relevant final balance shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (4)(d) of section 959AS to have been paid by the claimant company on the due date for the payment of the final instalment of preliminary tax of that company for the relevant period if 100 per cent of the tax payable by the claimant company for the relevant period, disregarding this subparagraph, is paid on or before the specified return date for the relevant period, and

(ii)the surrendering company shall for the purposes of this section be treated as having surrendered the relevant final balance to the claimant company and that relevant final balance shall not be available for use by any other company under this section.

(5)A payment for a relevant initial balance or for a relevant final balance –

(a)shall not be taken into account in computing profits or losses of either company for corporation tax purposes, and

(b)shall not be regarded as a distribution or a charge on income for any of the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts,

and, in this subsection, ‘payment for a relevant initial balance or for a relevant final balance’ means a payment made by the claimant company to the surrendering company in pursuance of an agreement between them as respects an amount surrendered in accordance with this section, being a payment not exceeding that amount.

(6)

(a)This section does not affect the liability to pay corporation tax of any company to which the section relates.

(b)Where this section applies, the amount on which, but for this section, the claimant company is liable to pay interest in accordance with section 1080 shall be reduced by –

(i)any relevant initial balance deemed to have been paid by that company in accordance with subsection (4)(a)(i), or

(ii)any relevant final balance deemed to have been paid by that company in accordance with subsection (4)(b)(i).

(7)For the purposes of this section, 2 companies are members of the same group if and only if they would be such members for the purposes of section 411.

959AU.

Date for payment of tax: amended assessments.

(1)Subject to subsection (2) and section 959AV, any additional tax due by reason of the amendment of an assessment for a chargeable period shall be deemed to be due and payable on the same day as the tax due under the assessment, before its amendment, was due and payable.

(2)Where –

(a)the assessment was made after the chargeable person had delivered a return containing a full and true disclosure of all material facts necessary for the making of the assessment, or

(b)the assessment had previously been amended following the delivery of the return containing such disclosure,

any additional tax due by reason of the amendment of the assessment shall be deemed to have been due and payable not later than one month from the date of the amendment.

959AV.

Date for payment of tax: determination of an appeal.

(1)Where, on the determination of an appeal against an assessment made on a chargeable person for a chargeable period, the amount of tax payable by the person for the period is in excess of the amount of the tax which the chargeable person had paid before the making of the appeal, the excess shall be deemed to be due and payable on the same date as the tax charged by the assessment is due and payable.

(2)Notwithstanding subsection (1), where –

(a)the amount of tax which the chargeable person had paid before the making of the appeal is not less than 90 per cent of the amount of tax found to be payable on the determination of the appeal, and

(b)the tax charged by the assessment was due and payable in accordance with section 959AO(2), section 959AQ, section 959AR(3) or section 959AS(3), as the case may be,

the excess referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to be due and payable not later than one month from the date of the determination of the appeal.

Chapter 8 Miscellaneous provisions (s. 959AW)
959AW.

Mutual agreement procedures.

Notwithstanding section 959AF(3), an assessment or amended assessment, as the case may be, made on a person shall not be final and conclusive where, within 30 days after the date of the notice of assessment, the person –

(a)requests a mutual agreement under an arrangement having the force of law by virtue of section 826(1) between the competent authority of the State and a competent authority of another jurisdiction, or

(b)submits a complaint on a question in dispute to the Revenue Commissioners under the European Union (Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanisms) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 306 of 2019).

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TAXES CONSOLIDATION ACT

Assessing Rules Including Rules for Self Assessment (ss. 959A-959AW)

Chapter 1 Interpretation (Part 41A) (ss. 959A-959B)

Interpretation.

Supplemental interpretation provisions.

Assessments: General Rules (ss. 959C-959H)

Making of assessments: general rules.

Record of assessments and generation of notices by electronic means.

Notice of assessment by Revenue officer.

Double assessment.

Transmission to Collector-General of particulars of sums to be collected.

Amended assessment and notice of amended assessment.

Requirements for returns for income tax and capital gains tax purposes.

Requirements for returns for corporation tax purposes.

Delivery of return by person acting under authority.

Delivery of return by precedent partner.

Exclusion from obligation to deliver a return.

Failure to deliver a return.

Expression of doubt.

Miscellaneous (Chapter 3).

Chargeable Persons: Self Assessments (ss. 959R-959X)

Inclusion of self assessment in return.

Option for self assessment to be made by Revenue.

Self assessment by person acting under authority.

Self assessment by Revenue officer in relation to chargeable person.

Amendment by chargeable person of return and of self assessment in return.

Making of self assessment in accordance with return.

Penalty for failure to make or amend self assessment.

Revenue Assessments and Enquiries and Related Time Limits (ss. 959Y-959AE)

Chargeable persons and other persons: assessment made or amended by Revenue officer.

Right of Revenue officer to make enquiries.

Chargeable persons: time limit on assessment made or amended by Revenue officer.

Persons other than chargeable persons: time limit on Revenue assessment and amended assessment.

Chargeable persons: Revenue assessment and amendment of assessments in absence of return, etc.

Chargeable persons and other persons: Revenue assessment and amendment of assessments where there is fraud or neglect.

Chargeable Persons: Preliminary Tax and Dates for Payment of Tax (ss. 959AM-959AV)

Interpretation and miscellaneous (Chapter 7).

Obligation to pay preliminary tax.

Date for payment of income tax.

Payment of preliminary tax by direct debit.

Date for payment of capital gains tax.

Date for payment of corporation tax: companies with relevant accounting periods.

Date for payment of corporation tax: groups.

Date for payment of tax: amended assessments.

Date for payment of tax: determination of an appeal.

Mutual agreement procedures.

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