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AI Summary of 959AB. Persons other than chargeable persons: time limit on Revenue assessment and amended assessment.

This section outlines the timeframe within which a Revenue assessment may be made or amended for individuals not classified as chargeable persons. Specifically, assessments can be conducted up to four years following the conclusion of the chargeable period related to the assessment.

Furthermore, it addresses situations involving emoluments received in a year of assessment that are subject to tax in a subsequent year. In these cases, a Revenue assessment remains permissible within a four-year window after the end of the assessment year where the emoluments were received, including specified provisions related to the timing and treatment of such emoluments.

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2024 - onwards
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959AB. Persons other than chargeable persons: time limit on Revenue assessment and amended assessment.

(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a Revenue assessment on a person other than a chargeable person may be made or amended by a Revenue officer at any time not later than 4 years after the end of the chargeable period to which the assessment relates.

(2) In a case in which emoluments to which subsection (3) applies are received in a year of assessment subsequent to that for which they are assessable, a Revenue assessment on a person other than a chargeable person may be made or amended by a Revenue officer for the year of assessment for which the emoluments are assessable at any time not later than 4 years after the end of the year of assessment in which the emoluments were received.

(3)The emoluments to which this subsection applies are -

(a) emoluments within the meaning of section 112(2), including any payments chargeable to tax by virtue of section 123 and any sums which by virtue of Chapter 3 of Part 5 are to be treated as perquisites of a person’s office or employment, being emoluments, payments or sums other than those taken into account in an assessment to income tax for the year of assessment in which they are received and, for the purposes of subsection (2) -