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Statutory Instruments
Taxes
Made
27th February 2023
Laid before the House of Commons
28th February 2023
Coming into force
6th April 2023
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 6th April 2023.
2. In regulation 2(1)(a) of the Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2003( 3)—
(a) in paragraph (i) after “28C,” insert “28H, 28I, 28J, 30A( 4),”;
(b) in paragraph (vii) after “paragraph”, in the first place it occurs, insert “4( 5),”.
Jim Harra
Justin Holliday
Two of the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
27th February 2023
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. 2003/282) (“ the 2003 Regulations”).
The amendments widen the scope of the 2003 Regulations to include notification, by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, of the following: simple assessments and their withdrawals; assessments within section 30A of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9); and daily penalties under Schedule 55 to the Finance Act 2009 (c. 10)for continued failure to provide certain returns.
A Tax Information and Impact Note has not been prepared for this instrument as it contains no substantive changes to tax policy.
1999 c. 16. The definition of “electronic communications” in section 132(10) was amended by paragraph 156 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).
The functions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5(1) and (2) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11).
S.I. 2003/282, amended by S.I. 2014/489; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.
Regulation 2(1)(a)(i) of S.I. 2003/282refers to sections of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9). Sections 28H, 28I and 28J were inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 23 to the Finance Act 2016 (c. 24). Sections 28H and 28I were amended respectively by paragraphs 18 and 19 of Schedule 14 to the Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), but these amendments are not yet in force. Section 30A was inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9)and amended by paragraph 370 of Schedule 1 to the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5).
Regulation 2(1)(a)(vii) of S.I. 2003/282refers, so far as is relevant, to paragraphs of Schedule 55 to the Finance Act 2009 (c. 10).