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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Finance Act 1987 (c. 16)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Finance Act 1987

1987 CHAPTER 16

Contents

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  1. Part 1

    Customs and Excise and Value Added Tax

    1. Chapter I

      Customs and Excise

      1. Duties of excise

        1. 1. Unleaded petrol

        2. 2. Part I Vehicles excise duty

        3. 3. Abolition of general betting duty on on-course bets

        4. 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

        5. 5. Gaming machine licence duty: other amendments

      2. Amendments of the Management Act

        1. 6.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

        2. 7. Powers of search and access etc. in respect of vehicles. 1979 c. 2

        3. 8. Local export control

        4. 9. Records relating to importation and exportation

        5. 10. Information powers

    2. Chapter II

      Value Added Tax

      1. 11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6. 16.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9. 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part II

    Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax

    1. Chapter I

      General

      1. 20–39.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 41–46.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Chapter II

      1. 47.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part III

    Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax

    1. Stamp duty

      1. 48. Unit trusts

      2. 49. Contract notes

      3. 50–53.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 54. Shared ownership transactions

      5. 55. Crown exemption

      6. 56.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. Part IV

    Inheritance Tax

    1. 57. Reduced rates of tax

    2. 58. Securities, other business property and agricultural property

    3. 59. Maintenance funds for historic buildings etc

    4. 60. Acceptance in lieu: waiver of interest

  5. Part V

    Oil Taxation

    1. 61. Nomination of disposals and appropriations

    2. 62. Market value of oil to be determined on a monthly basis

    3. 63. Blends of oil from two or more fields

    4. 64. Relief for research expenditure

    5. 65. Cross-field allowance of certain expenditure incurred on new fields

    6. 66. Oil allowance: adjustment for final periods

    7. 67. Variation of decisions on claims for allowable expenditure

  6. Part VI

    Miscellaneous and Supplementary

    1. 68. Abolition of enactments relating to exchange control

    2. 69. Regulation of financial dealings

    3. 70. Arrangements specified in Orders in Council relating to double taxation relief etc

    4. 71.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 72. Short title, interpretation, construction and repeals

  7. SCHEDULE 1

    Vehicles Excise Duty

  8. SCHEDULE 2

    Amendments of Value Added Tax Act 1983

  9. SCHEDULES 3–6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  10. SCHEDULE 7

    . .

  11. SCHEDULE 8

    Securities, Other Business Property and Agricultural Property

  12. SCHEDULE 9

    Maintenance Funds for Historic Buildings etc

  13. SCHEDULE 10

    Nomination Scheme for Disposals and Appropriation

  14. SCHEDULE 11

    Market Value of Oil

  15. SCHEDULE 12

    Supplementary Provisions as to Blended Oil

  16. SCHEDULE 13

    Relief for Research Expenditure

  17. SCHEDULE 14

    Cross-Field Allowance

  18. SCHEDULE 15

    Pre-Consolidation Amendments: Income Tax and Corporation Tax

  19. SCHEDULE 16

    Repeals

An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.

[15th May 1987]

X1X2Most Gracious Sovereign,We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty’s public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective, see individual sections; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991. Some provisions came into force at specific times of the day.

Editorial Information

X1The text of ss. 69 and 72(1) was taken from S.I.F. Group 10 (Banking and Currency), ss. 3–5, 72(1)(7), Sch. 16 Pt. II from S.I.F. Group 12:2 (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries: Betting and Gaming Duties), ss. 1, 6–10, 72(1)(7), Sch. 16 Pt. III from S.I.F. Group 40:1 (Customs and Excise: Customs and Excise Duties), ss. 11–19, 72(1)(7), Schs. 2, 16 Pt. IV from S.I.F. Group 40:2 (Customs and Excise: Value Added Tax and Car Tax), ss. 20–46, 61–67, 70(1), 71, 72(1)–(3)(6)(7), Schs. 3–6, 10–15, 16 Pts. V–VII, X from S.I.F. Group 63:1 (Income, Corporation and Capital Gains Taxes: Income and Corporation Taxes), s. 47 from S.I.F. Group 63:2 (Income, Corporation and Capital Gains Taxes: Capital Gains Taxes), ss. 57–60, 70(2), 72(1)(5)(7), Schs. 8, 9, 16 Pt. IX from S.I.F. Group 65 (Inheritance Tax), ss. 68, 72(1)(7) Sch. 16 Pt. XI from S.I.F. Group 99:6 (Public Finance and Economic Controls: Economic Controls), ss. 2, 72(1)(7), Schs. 1, 16 Pt. I from S.I.F. Group 107:2 (Road Traffic: Vehicle Excise Duty) and ss. 48–56, 72(1)(4)(7), Schs. 7, 16 Pt. VIII from S.I.F Group 114 (Stamp Duty); provisions omitted from SIF have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary.

X2General amendments to Tax Acts, Income Tax Acts, and/or Corporation Tax Acts made by legislation after 1.2.1991 are noted against Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) but not against each Act

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