COM71140 - Enquiries: CTSA enquiries: closing an enquiry: enquiries under Schedule 1A TMA 1970

This subject is presented as follows.

COTAX 
Enquiry completion procedures under Schedule 1A TMA 1970 after FA 2001 
Schedule 1A and Paragraph 24 Schedule 18 FA 1998 
Further information 

COTAX

COTAX does not provide support for Schedule 1A enquiries into claims and elections not made in a return. You must open, conduct and close those enquiries outside COTAX.

The conclusions of a Schedule 1A enquiry normally affect the company's liabilities, so you need to update COTAX with the result. When you are ready to do so, use function RAMA (Record/Amend Assessment) and select ‘process a claim’ to:

  • amend the recorded claim or record the amended claim
  • suppress the assessing output as the wording of output issued by COTAX is not appropriate to settling a Schedule 1A enquiry

Enquiry completion procedures under Schedule 1A TMA 1970 after FA 2001

Schedule 29 Part 4 Paragraph 10 Finance Act (FA) 2001 amended Paragraph 7 Schedule 1A Taxes Management Act (TMA) 1970 to simplify the procedure on completion of an enquiry into claims and so on not included in returns. See the Enquiry Manual for details of the approach before FA 2001.

Your closure notice and any necessary amendment to the claim are combined into one letter, the closure notice. There was previously a 60-day process for amendments on the completion of a Schedule 1A enquiry. The taxpayer right to amend on closure does not apply to enquiries into such claims.

Schedule 1A and Paragraph 24 Schedule 18 FA 1998

There are important distinctions between the Schedule 1A Taxes Management Act (TMA) 1970 and Schedule 18 Finance Act (FA) 1998 enquiry regimes and different closure procedures apply to each. See the Enquiry Manual for further information on both regimes.

If the company has delivered a return for the Accounting Period (AP) affected by the Schedule 1A claim and you are already conducting a Paragraph 24 Schedule 18 enquiry into that return, you must handle the Schedule 1A enquiry separately from the Paragraph 24 Schedule 18 enquiry.

Further information

See:

  • the Enquiry Manual at EM8030 and EM8560, the Company Taxation Manual at CTM90635 and COM52030 for more information about enquiries into claims and elections under Schedule 1A
  • COM71021 for a list of forms relevant to this subject
  • COM71011 for a list of functions to use in particular situations
  • COM71012 for legislation applying to this subject