Finance Act 2025

Amendment of section 959I of Principal Act (obligation to make a return)

102. Section 959I of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):

“(6) Where a chargeable person as respects a chargeable period prepares and delivers to the Collector-General after the specified return date for the chargeable period a return in the prescribed form, nothing in this Chapter shall operate so as to prevent the chargeable person from making a claim for an allowance, deduction or relief under the Acts in the return, unless a provision of the Acts (other than this subsection) prevents the chargeable person from making a claim for the allowance, deduction or relief where the return is delivered after the specified return date, or the return is delivered later than the date specified by a provision of the Acts (other than this subsection) for making a claim for an allowance, deduction or relief.”.