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Commentary

A7.334 Serial tax avoidance—restriction of relief notices

Administration and compliance

In summary, if a taxpayer has, during the warning period, used three sets of arrangements which relate to the 'misuse of reliefs', HMRC must issue a 'restriction of relief' notice. The recipient of a relief restriction notice may then not make any claim for a relief during the restricted period. Where a company is treated as having been issued with a warning notice because another member of the corporate group had previously been issued with a notice, or because it is an associated person of the recipient, no account is taken of this notice in relation to a relief restriction notice1.

In detail, where a person has incurred three relevant defeats, each of which:

  1. Ìý

    •ÌýÌýÌýÌý is by virtue of conditions A, B, or C (see A7.331)

  2. Ìý

    •ÌýÌýÌýÌý relates to the misuse of a relief, and

  3. Ìý

    •ÌýÌýÌýÌý has been counteracted, on the basis that a particular avoidance-related rule applies in relation to a person's affairs (see below), or the misused relief is a loss relief2,

HMRC

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