The Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made: 12th March 2015

Laid before the House of Commons: 13th March 2015

Coming into force: 6th April 2015

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 23 to the Finance Act 2011[^f00001] make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2015.

Amendment of the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012

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In regulation 8 of the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012[^f00002] omit “, that the person beneficially entitled to the payment is unlikely to be liable to pay any amount by way of income tax for the year in which payment was made,”.

Signed

David Evennett — Alun Cairns — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 12th March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations make a consequential amendment to regulation 4 of the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/847).

A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument was published alongside the Finance Bill 2014 and is available on the gov.uk website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293793/TIIN_8073_8076_the_starting_rate_of_tax_for_savings.pdf. It remains an accurate summary of the impacts that apply to this instrument.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2011 c.11.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2012/847, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.