Finance Act, 1918

Charge of Schedule B. tax. 59 & 60 Vict. c. 28.

21. Sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of the Finance Act, 1896 (which relate respectively to the application of the Income Tax Acts and to annual value for the purpose of exemption from or abatement of income tax under Schedule B.), shall, as respects income tax under Schedule B., have effect as if for the references to one-third of the annual value there were substituted references to an amount equal to twice the annual value:

Provided that where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Income Tax Commissioners concerned that any person occupying any lands and assessed to income tax in respect thereof under Schedule B. is not occupying those lands for the purposes of husbandry only, or mainly for those purposes, the above provision shall, unless the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, on a reference to the Board by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, certify that the use of the lands by that person for purposes other than purposes of husbandry is unreasonable, apply in relation to those lands as if for the reference to an amount equal to twice the annual value there were substituted a reference to an amount equal to the annual value.

The expression “Board of Agriculture and Fisheries” means in the application of this section to Scotland the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, and in the application of this section to Ireland the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Inland.