Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 (Number 39 of 1997)
879Returns of income.
[ITA67 s172(1), (2), (4) and (6); FA74 s86 and Sch2 PtI; FA90 s23(2)]
(1) In this section, “prescribed” means prescribed by the Revenue Commissioners and, in prescribing forms for the purposes of this section, the Revenue Commissioners shall have regard to the desirability of securing in so far as may be possible that no individual shall be required to make more than one return annually of the sources of the individual’s income and the amounts derived from those sources.
(2) Every individual, when required to do so by a notice given to him or her in relation to any year of assessment by an inspector, shall within the time limited by the notice prepare and deliver to the inspector a return in the prescribed form of—
(a) all the sources of his or her income for the year of assessment in relation to which the notice is given;
(b) the amount of income from each source for the year of assessment computed in accordance with subsection (3);
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(3) The amount of income from any source to be included in a return under this section shall be computed in accordance with the Income Tax Acts; but, where under section 65 the profits or gains of a year ending on a date within the year of assessment are to be taken to be the profits or gains of that year of assessment, the computation shall be made by reference to that year ending on a date within that year of assessment.
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(3) The amount of income from any source to be included in a return under this section shall be computed in accordance with the Income Tax Acts; but where under Chapter 3 of Part 4 the profits or gains (or, as respects the year of assessment 2001, 74 per cent of the profits or gains) of a particular 12 month period are to be taken to be the profits or gains of a year of assessment, the computation shall be made by reference to that period.
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(4) Where a person delivers to any inspector a return in a prescribed form, the person shall be deemed to have been required by a notice under this section to prepare and deliver that return.