Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 305
Income Tax
The Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
Made
8th March 2017
Laid before the House of Commons
9th March 2017
Coming into force
6th April 2017
These Regulations are made by the Treasury in exercise of the powers conferred by section 178(1) and (2)(s) of the Finance Act 1989( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 6th April 2017.
Amendment of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989
2. In regulation 5 of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989( 2 ), in paragraph (1) for “on and after 6th April 2015, be 3.00 per cent per annum” substitute “on and after 6th April 2017, be 2.50 per cent per annum”.
Robert Syms
Andrew Griffiths
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th March 2017
1989 c. 26 ; paragraph (s) of section 178(2) was inserted by paragraph 162(d) of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1) .
S.I. 1989/1297 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/1307 , 1994/1567 , 2009/199 and 2015/411 .