Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 838
Income Tax
The Income Tax (Payments on Account) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Made
26th March 2008
Laid before the House of Commons
27th March 2008
Coming into force
6th April 2009
Citation, commencement and effect
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Payments on Account) (Amendment) Regulations 2008, shall come into force on 6 th April 2009 and shall have effect as respects the year 2009-10 and subsequent years of assessment.
Amendment of the Income Tax (Payments on Account) Regulations 1996
2. In regulation 3 of the Income Tax (Payments on Account) Regulations 1996( 3 ) (which prescribes the assessed amount for the purposes of section 59A(1)(c) of the Taxes Management Act 1970) for “£500” substitute “£1,000”.
Dave Hartnett
Mike Eland
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
26th March 2008
1970 c. 9 . Section 59A was inserted by section 192 of the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) and relevantly amended by section 103(7) of the Finance Act 1995(c. 4) , paragraph 130(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions ) Act 2003 (c. 1) and paragraph 376 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5) .
The functions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (“the former Commissioners”) were transferred to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs (“the new Commissioners”) by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11) . Section 50 of that Act provides that, insofar as is appropriate in consequence of section 5, a reference to the former Commissioners is to be read as a reference to the new Commissioners.
S.I. 1996/1654 . There are amendments, but none is relevant for present purposes.