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CH25000 · Information & Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers

  • CH25120 · Meaning of 'enter'
  • CH25140 · Meaning of 'inspect'
  • CH25160 · Information and Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Meaning of ‘inspect’: Examples
  • CH25180 · Meaning of 'business premises'
  • CH25200 · Meaning of 'carrying on a business'
  • CH25220 · Business run from home
  • CH25240 · Inspecting premises that are a home
  • CH25260 · Meaning of 'business assets'
  • CH25280 · Meaning of 'business documents'
  • CH25300 · Documents you cannot inspect
  • CH25320 · Obtaining and recording information and copying documents
  • CH25340 · Marking goods or assets
  • CH25360 · Involved third parties, relevant information, relevant documents and relevant tax
  • CH25380 · Valuation etc inspections
  • CH25400 · Information & Inspection Powers: Types of inspection
  • CH25600 · Information and Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Co- operation at an inspection
  • CH25650 · Information and Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Failure to allow an inspection
  • CH25700 · Information and Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Deliberate obstruction of an inspection
  1. Information & Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: contents
  2. Information & Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Meaning of 'business documents'

CH25280 | Information & Inspection Powers: Inspection Powers: Meaning of 'business documents'

From HM Revenue & Customs · Compliance Handbook

Business documents are documents or copies of documents that

  • relate to the carrying on of a business by any person, and

  • are part of any person’s statutory records, see CH21700.

Both of these parts must be fulfilled for a document to be a business document.

For any document you inspect you may

  • take a copy of it

  • make an extract from it, and

  • remove it.

to the same extent as if you had requested the document under an information notice CH25320.

See CH25300 for guidance on the documents you cannot inspect.

FA08/SCH36/PARA10 (3)

FA08/SCH36/PARA15

FA08/SCH36/PARA16

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