Finance Act, 1999

Amendment of Chapter 4 (collection and recovery of income tax on certain emoluments (PAYE system)) of Part 42 of Principal Act.

24.—Chapter 4 of Part 42 of the Principal Act is hereby amended, as on and from the 6th day of April, 1999, by the insertion of the following section after section 990:

“Generation of estimates by electronic, photographic or other process.

990A.—For the purposes of this Chapter—

(a) where the inspector, any officer of the Revenue Commissioners nominated by them for the purposes of section 989 or 990 (in this section referred to as ‘the nominated officer’) or any other officer of the Revenue Commissioners acting with the knowledge of the inspector or the nominated officer causes, for the purposes of section 989 or 990, to be issued, manually or by any electronic, photographic or other process, and to be served, a notice bearing the name of the inspector or the nominated officer, the estimate to which that notice relates shall be deemed—

(i) if that notice was issued for the purposes of section 989, to have been made by the nominated officer, and

(ii) if that notice was issued for the purposes of section 990, to have been made by the inspector or the nominated officer, as the case may be, to the best of his or her opinion,

and

(b) the provisions of section 928 shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply in relation to estimates made in accordance with the provisions of section 990 as they apply in relation to assessments to income tax.”.