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959AA. Chargeable persons: time limit on assessment made or amended by Revenue officer.

(1) Where a chargeable person has delivered a return for a chargeable period and has made in the return a full and true disclosure of all material facts necessary for the making of an assessment for the chargeable period -

(a) an assessment for that period, or

(b) an amendment of an assessment for that period,

shall not be made by a Revenue officer on the chargeable person after the end of 4 years commencing at the end of the chargeable period in which the return is delivered and -

(i) no additional tax shall be payable by the chargeable person after the end of that period of 4 years, and

(ii) no tax shall be repaid after the end of a period of 4 years commencing at the end of the chargeable period for which the return is delivered,

by reason of any matter contained in the return.

(2) Nothing in this section prevents a Revenue officer from, at any time, amending an assessment for a chargeable period -

(a) where the return for the period does not contain a full and true disclosure of al

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