Section 4 | Income tax an annual tax

(1)Income tax is charged for a year only if an Act so provides.

(2)A year for which income tax is charged is called a “tax year”.

(3)A tax year begins on 6 April and ends on the following 5 April.

(4)“The tax year 2007-08” means the tax year beginning on 6 April 2007 (and any corresponding expression in which two years are similarly mentioned is to be read in the same way).

(5)Every assessment to income tax must be made for a tax year.

(6)Subsection (5) is subject to Chapter 15 of Part 15 (by virtue of which an assessment may relate to a return period).