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Part IV.
Excess Profits Duty.
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Continuance and increase of rate of excess profits duty. 5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 59.
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44.—(1) The Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915 (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the principal Act”), shall, so far as it relates to excess profits duty, apply, unless Parliament otherwise determines, to any accounting period ending on or after the fifty day of August nineteen hundred and twenty, and before the fifty day of August nineteen hundred and twenty-one, as it supplies to accounting periods ended after the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen, and before the fifty day of August nineteen hundred and twenty.
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(2) Section thirty-eight of the principal Act shall, as respects excess profits arising in any accounting period commencing on or after the first day of January nineteen hundred and twenty, have effect as if sixty per cent. of the excess were substituted as the rate of duty for forty per cent. of the excess, or, in the case of an accounting period which commenced before that date but ends after that date, as if sixty per cent. were substituted for forty per cent. as respects so much of the excess as may be apportioned under this Part of this Act to the part commencing on that date.
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In calculating any repayment or set off under subsection (3) of section. thirty-eight of the principal Act any amount to be repaid or set off on account of a deficiency or loss arising in any accounting period commencing on or after the first day of January nineteen hundred and twenty, or, in the case of an accounting period which has commenced before that date but ends after that date, on account of so much of the deficiency or loss as may be apportioned under this Part of this Act to the part commencing on that date, shall be calculated by reference to duty at the rate of sixty per cent.
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Any additional duty payable by virtue of this section in respect of a past accounting period may be assessed and recovered notwithstanding that duty has already been assessed in respect of that period.
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(3) In the case of a trade or business which is owned or carried on by any person who has served during the war as a member of any of the naval or military forces of the Crown, or of the Air Force or in service of a naval or military character in connection with the war for which payment was made out of money provided by Parliament, or in any work abroad of the British Red Cross Society or the Order of St. John of Jerusalem or any other body with similar objects, and which was commenced b that person for the first time, or having been wholly discontinued by him during the war or some part of the war was recommenced by him, after his demobilisation or discharge, subsection (1) of section thirty-eight of the principal Act shall have effect as though “five hundred pounds” were substituted for “two hundred pounds.”
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