Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 249
Income Tax
The Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Made
4th March 2021
Laid before the House of Commons
9th March 2021
Coming into force
6th April 2021
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 2021 and come into force on 6th April 2021.
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 2020, be 2.25 per cent per annum” substitute “on and after 6th April 2021, be 2.00 per cent per annum”.
David Rutley
Maggie Throup
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
4th March 2021
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 2020/194 .