Finance Act 2021

Amendment of section 1080B of Principal Act (Covid-19: special warehousing and interest provisions (income tax))

72. Section 1080B of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (18):

“(19) Where—

(a) a relevant person who is a person with a material interest (within the meaning of section 997A) in a company—

(i) has not estimated that the relevant person’s total income for 2020 will be less than 75 per cent of the relevant person’s total income for 2019,

(ii) has not formed the view that the relevant person’s total income for 2021 will be less than 75 per cent of the relevant person’s total income for 2019, or

(iii) was not a relevant person for 2019 and neither subsection (4) nor paragraph (b) of subsection (6) applies to that person,

and

(b) section 991B applies to the company,

this section shall apply to the relevant person, subject to the modification that a reference in this section to a relevant person’s Covid-19 income tax shall be construed as a reference to that part of the relevant person’s income tax liabilities which relates to the person’s Schedule E income from the company.

(20) Where a relevant person referred to in subsection (19) includes on a return or declaration, as Covid-19 income tax, any amount of income tax other than income tax relating to the relevant person’s Schedule E income from the company referred to in that subsection, section 959AO(3) shall apply to the relevant person’s Covid-19 income tax.”.