Statutory Instruments
INCOME TAX
Made
20th August 1987
Laid before the House of Commons
21st August 1987
Coming into force
6th September 1987
1. This Order may be cited as the Income Tax (Interest on Unpaid Tax and Repayment Supplement) (No. 3) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 6th September 1987.
2. The prescribed rate of interest for the purposes of each of the provisions set out in the Table below shall be 9 per cent. per annum.
3. The prescribed rate of interest for the purposes of sections 47(1) and 48(2) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1975 (supplement on overpaid income tax, surtax, capital gains tax, and corporation tax, including advance corporation tax) shall be 9 per cent. per annum.
Peter Lloyd
David Lightbown
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
20th August 1987
(This note is not part of the Order)
On and after 6th September 1987 this Order increases from 8.25 per cent. per annum to 9 per cent. per annum the rate of interest chargeable on unpaid income tax, surtax, capital gains tax, corporation tax (including advance corporation tax), development land tax, petroleum revenue tax, profits tax, excess profits tax, excess profits levy and on overpaid development land tax. The Order also provides that on and after 6th September 1987 supplement on repayments of income tax, surtax, capital gains tax and corporation tax (including advance corporation tax) will be at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum instead of 8.25 per cent. per annum.
1970 c. 9; section 89(2) was extended to petroleum revenue tax by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Oil Taxation Act 1975 (c. 22) and to development land tax by paragraph 23 of Schedule 8 to the Development Land Tax Act 1976 (c. 24). The Development Land Tax Act was repealed by section 98(6) of, and Part X of Schedule 27 to, the Finance Act 1985 (c. 54) in relation to any disposal of an interest in land on or after 19th March 1985.