Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915

Relief in respect of premiums on policies. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 34.

26.(1) In any income tax year to which this section applies, the whole amount of profits and gains by reference to which the limit of the relief granted in respect of the premiums on insurance policies under section fifty-four of the Income Tax Act, 1853, and any Act amending the same, is calculated shall be taken to be and to have been the whole amount of the profits and gains within the meaning of that section for the year ending the fifth day of April nineteen hundred and fourteen, where that amount is or was greater than the amount of the profits and gains by reference to which the limit would be calculated but for this section.

(2) This section applies to the income tax year ended on the fifth day of April nineteen hundred and fifteen to the current income tax year, and to any future income tax year which includes any time during which the present war continues, and any amount which has been paid before the passing of this Act and would not have been paid if this section had been in force shall be repaid.