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Finance Bill 2001


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Clause 1: Hydrocarbon Oil (Rates of Duty)
Clause 2: Hydrocarbon Oil (Rebate on Unleaded Petrol)
Clause 3:
Hydrocarbon Oil (Fuel Testing Pilot Projects)
Clause 4: Tobacco Products Duty
Clause  5:
Alchoholic Liquor Duties
Clause 6: General Betting Duty
Clause 7: Rates of Gaming Duty
Clause 8:  Vehicle Excise Duty (General Rate)
Clause 9: Rates of Duty for Goods Vehicles
Clause 10: Rates of Duty for Vehicles used for Exceptional Loads
 
Clause 11:  Rates of Duty for Recovery Vehicles
Clause 12: Rates of Vehicle Excise Duty for Mobile Pumping Vehicles
Clause 13: Exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty for Special Concessionary and Electric Vehicles
Clause 14: Surrender of Vehicle Licences
Clause 15: Excise Duty (Payments in case of error or delay by commissions)
Clause 16: Charge to Aggregates Levy
Clause 17: Meaning of Aggregate and Taxable Aggregate
Clause 18:
Exempt Processes
Clause 19: Commercial Exploitation

Clause 20:
Originating Sites
 
Clause 21: Operations of Sites
Clause 22: Responsibility for Exploitation of Aggregate

Clause 23:
Weight of Aggregate
Clause 24: The Register
Clause 25: Returns and Payments of Levy

Clause 26: 
Security for Levy
Clause 27:  Recovery and Interest
Clause
Clause 28: Evasion, Misdeclaration and Neglect
Clause 29:  Information and Evidence

Clause 30: 
Credit for Aggregates Levy
 
Clause 31:  Repayments of Overpaid Levy
Clause 32: Supplemental Provisions about Repayments, etc.
Clause 33:  Appointment of Tax Representatives

Clause 34: 
Effect of Appointment of Tax Representatives
Clause 35:  Groups of Companies, etc.
Clause 36:  Partnerships and other Unincorporated Bodies
Clause 37: 
Insolvency, etc.
Clause 38: 
Death and Incapacity
Clause 39:  Transfer of a Business as a going Concern


Clause 40: 
Review of Commissioners' Decisions
 
Clause 41:  Appeals against Reviewed Decisions
Clause 42: 
Determinations on Appeal
Clause 43:  Adjustments of Contracts
Clause 44:  Destination of Receipts
Clause

Clause 45: 

Regulations and Orders
Clause 46: Civil Penalties
Clause 47: Service of Notices
Clause 48:  Interpretation of Chapter
Clause 49:   Minor and Consequential Amendments
Clause 50: Charge and Rates of Income Tax for 2001-02
 
Clause 51: Starting Rate Limit for 2001-02
Clause 52: Amount of Children's Tax Credit in 2001-02
Clause 53 and Schedule 11: Children's tax Credit: Baby Rate
Clause 54: Corporation Tax-Charge and Main Rate for Financial Year 2002
Clause 55: Corporation Tax-Small Companies' Rate and Fraction for Financial Year 2001
Clause 56: Corporation Tax-Starting Rate and Fraction for Financial Year 2001
Clause 57 and Schedule 12: Mileage Allowances: Exemptions and Relief
Clause 58:
Mileage Allowance: Nil Liability Notices
Clause 59: Employees Vehicles: Withdrawal of Capital Allowances
Clause 60: Exemption for Works Bus SErvices: Extension to Minibuses
 
Clause 61: Employee Share Ownership Plans: Amendments
Clause 62 and Schedule 14: Enterprise Management Incentives: Amendments
Clause 63 and Schedule 15: Enterprise Investment Scheme: Amendments
Clause 64 and Schedule 16: Venture Capital

Clause 65 and Schedule 17:
Energy-Saving Plant and Machinery
Clause 66 and Schedule 18: Fixtures Provided in Connection with Energy Management Services
Clause 67 and Schedule 19: Conversion of Parts of Business Premises into Flats
Clause 68 and Schedule 20: Decommissioning of Offshore Oil Infrastructure
Clause 69 and Schedule 21: Capital Allowances: Minor Ammendments

Clause 70 and Schedule 22, 23:

Relief for Expenditure on Remediation of Contaminated Land
 
Clause 71: Creative Artists: Relief for Fluctuating Profits
Clause 72: Expenditure on Film Production etc

Clause 73:
Deductions for Business Gifts: Yearly Limit
Clause 74: Payments to Employers out of Pension Funds

Clause 75:
Notional Transfers within a Group
Clause 76 and Schedule 25: Capital Gains Tax: Taper Relief: Business Assets
Clause 77: Degrouping Charge: Transitional Relief
Clause 78: Attribution of Gains of Non-Resident Companies
Clause 79 and Schedule 26: Double Taxation Relief
Clause 80: Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs)
 
Clause 81 and Schedule 27: Life Policies, Life Annuity contracts and Capital Redemption Policies
Clause 82: Stock Lending Anti-Avoidance
Clause 83: Deduction of Tax: Payments between Companies
Clause 84: Profits for Purposes of Small Companies' Relief
Clause 85: Life Insurance Companies and Friendly Societies: Provisional Repayments

Clause 86 and Schedule 28: Amendments to the Machinery of Self-Assesment
Clause 87: Recovery Proceedings: Minor Ammendments
Clause 88: Repayment Supplements: Claim for Relief Involving two or more years
Clause 89: Power to Revise Excessive Penalties
Clause 90 and Schedule 29: Exemption for Property in Disadvanteged Areas
 
Clause 91:
SDRT: Unit Trust Schemes and Individual Pension Accounts
Clause 92: SDRT: Open-Ended Investment Companies and Individual Pension Accounts
Clause 93: Exemptions in Relation to Employee Shares Ownership Plans
Clause 94: VAT: Children's Car Seats
Clause 95: VAT: Residential Conversions and Renovations
Clause 96 : VAT : Refund Scheme for National Museums and Galleries
Clause 97: Simplification of the Legislation on VAT Reduced Rates
Clause 98: Appointment of VAT Representatives
Clause 99 and Schedule 31: PRT: Determination of Undeliverable Field Losses
Clause 100: PRT: Allowable Decommissioning where Infrastructure has been Shared
 
Clause 101: PRT: Allowance of Decommissioning Expenditure in Exempt Gas Fields
Clause 102: Rate of Landfill Tax
Clause 103: Climate Change Levy
Clause 104: Transfers within Group etc
Clause 105: Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions
Supplementary Clauses 106-108
 
Government Ammendments
Amendment 30 Clause 57/Sch 12. Page 143, line 43
Amendment 31 Clause 68 and Schedule 20. Page 194, line 8.
Ammendment to clause 83 Clause 83, Page 56, line 20
Government New Clauses
New Clause 16 Limited Liability Partnerships: General
New Clause 17 Limited Liability Partnerships: Investment in LLPs and Property Investment LLPs
New Clause 18

Interest on Unpaid Tax, ETC: Foot-and-mouth Disease

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