Section 127 | Repayment postponed pending completion of enquiries.

After subsection (4) of section 59B of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (payment of income tax and capital gains tax) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(4A)Where in the case of a repayment the return on the basis of which the person’s self-assessment was made under section 9 of this Act is enquired into by an officer of the Board—

(a)nothing in subsection (3) or (4) above shall require the repayment to be made before the day on which, by virtue of section 28A(5) of this Act, the officer’s enquiries are treated as completed; but

(b)the officer may at any time before that day make the repayment, on a provisional basis, to such extent as he thinks fit.