Section 7: Notice of liability to income tax and capital gains tax., Taxes Management Act 1970

Every person who—

is chargeable to income tax or capital gains tax for any year of assessment, and

falls within subsection (1A) or (1B),

shall, subject to subsection (3) below, within the notification period, give notice to an officer of the Board that he is so chargeable.

A person falls within this subsection if the person has not received a notice under section 8 requiring a return for the year of assessment of the person's total income and chargeable gains.

A person falls within this subsection if the person—

has received a notice under section 8 requiring a return for the year of assessment of the person's total income and chargeable gains, and

has received a notice under section 8B withdrawing the notice under section 8.

In subsection (1) "the notification period" means—

in the case of a person who falls within subsection (1A), the period of 6 months from the end of the year of assessment, or

in the case of a person who falls within subsection (1B)—

the period of 6 months from the end of the year of assessment, or

the period of 30 days beginning with the day after the day on which the notice under section 8 was withdrawn,

whichever ends later.

In the case of persons who are chargeable as mentioned in subsection (1) above as the relevant trustees of a settlement, that subsection and subsections (1A) to (1C) have effect as if references to a notice under section 8 were references to a notice under section 8A.

A person who—

falls within subsection (1A) or (1B), and

is notified of a simple assessment for the year of assessment,

is not required to give notice under subsection (1) for that year unless the person is chargeable to an amount of income tax or capital gains tax for the year of assessment ... that is not included in the assessment.

A person shall not be required to give notice under subsection (1) above in respect of a year of assessment if for that year—

the person's total income consists of income from sources falling within subsections (4) to (7) below,

the person has no chargeable gains, and

the person is not liable to an amount of tax under any provision listed in relation to the person in section 30 of ITA 2007 (additional tax).

A source of income falls within this subsection in relation to a year of assessment if—

all payments of, or on account of, income from it during that year, and

all income from it for that year which does not consist of payments,

have or has been taken into account in the making of deductions or repayments of tax under PAYE regulations.

A source of income falls within this subsection in relation to any person and any year of assessment if all income from it for that year has been or will be taken into account—

in determining that person's liability to tax, or

in the making of deductions or repayments of tax under PAYE regulations.

A source of income falls within this subsection in relation to any person and any year of assessment if all income from it for that year is—

income from which income tax has been deducted; or

income from or on which income tax is treated as having been deducted or paid,

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and that person is not for that year liable to tax at a rate other than the basic rate, the dividend nil rate, the Scottish basic rate, a Scottish rate below the Scottish basic rate, the Scottish intermediate rate, the Welsh basic rate, the dividend ordinary rate, the savings nil rate or the starting rate for savings.

A source of income falls within this subsection in relation to any person and any year of assessment if for that year—

all income from the source is dividend income (see section 19 of ITA 2007), and

the person—

is UK-resident,

is not liable to tax at the dividend ordinary rate,

is not liable to tax at the dividend upper rate,

is not liable to tax at the dividend additional rate, and

is not charged to tax under section 832 of ITTOIA 2005 (relevant foreign income charged on remittance basis) on any dividend income.

A source of income falls within this subsection in relation to any person and any year of assessment if all income from it for that year is income on which he could not become liable to tax under a self-assessment made under section 9 of this Act in respect of that year.

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For the purposes of this Act the relevant trustees of a settlement are—

in relation to income (other than gains treated as arising under Chapter 9 of Part 4 of ITTOIA 2005), the persons who are trustees when the income arises and any persons who subsequently become trustees; and

in relation to gains treated as arising under Chapter 9 of Part 4 of ITTOIA 2005, the persons who are trustees in the year of assessment in which the gains arise and any persons who subsequently become trustees; and

in relation to chargeable gains, the persons who are trustees in the year of assessment in which the chargeable gains accrue and any persons who subsequently become trustees.

Section 7: Notice of liability to income tax and capital gains tax.

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