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Finance Act, 1991

Amendment of section 21 (miscellaneous) of Finance Act, 1988.

53.— Section 21 of the Finance Act, 1988 , is hereby amended—

(a) by the insertion in subsection (3), after “the inspector causes to issue”, of “manually or”, and the said subsection (3), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section, and

(b) by the addition of the following subsections after subsection (6):

“(7) The provisions of this Chapter as respects due dates for payment of tax shall apply subject to the provisions of sections 37 (4) (b) (which provides for the postponement, in certain circumstances, of the payment of capital gains tax in the case of certain beneficiaries of a non-resident trust) and 44 (which provides for the payment of tax on certain chargeable gains by instalment, in certain circumstances) of the Capital Gains Tax Act, 1975 .

(8) With effect for the year of assessment 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment, references in this Chapter to any provision of the Income Tax Acts shall, where appropriate for capital gains tax and unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the said provisions as applied in relation to capital gains tax by paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Fourth Schedule to the Capital Gains Tax Act, 1975 .”.

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(3) Where the inspector or any other officer of the Revenue Commissioners acting with the knowledge of the inspector causes to issue, manually or by any electronic, photographic or other process, a notice of preliminary tax bearing the name of the inspector or a notice of assessment or a notice of an amendment of an assessment bearing the name of the inspector, the said notice of preliminary tax shall, for all the purposes of the Tax Acts, be deemed to have been given by the inspector to the best of his opinion and the said assessment or amended assessment to which the notice of assessment or notice of amended assessment relates, as the case may be, shall, for those purposes, be deemed to have been made by the inspector to the best of his judgement.