Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 194
Income Tax
The Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made
27th February 2020
Laid before the House of Commons
2nd March 2020
Coming into force
6th April 2020
The Treasury make the following Regulations 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 2020 and come into force on 6th April 2020.
Amendment of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989
2. In regulation 5(1) of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989( 2 ), for “on and after 6th April 2017, be 2.50 per cent per annum” substitute “on and after 6th April 2020, be 2.25 per cent per annum”.
Iain Stewart
Rebecca Harris
Two of the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Treasury
27th February 2020
1989 c. 26 ; paragraph (s) of section 178(2) was inserted by paragraphs 156 and 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 , 2009/199 and 2017/305 .