Introduction Overview Chapter 9: Leaving the UK REIT regime Section 572: Termination by notice: officer of Revenue and Customs
1797.This section provides that, in certain circumstances, an officer of Revenue and Customs may give a notice to the principal company of a group UK REIT or a company UK REIT that the group or company ceases to be within the UK REIT regime. It also provides a right of appeal. It is based on sections 129 and 134(1) of, and paragraphs 23 and 24 of Schedule 17 to, FA 2006.
1798.Subsections (1), (2) and (4) require the notice to be given by an “officer of Revenue and Customs” rather than by “the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs”. Subsection (5) provides that an appeal must be made by the UK REIT by giving notice in writing to an “officer of Revenue of Customs” rather than to “the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs”. See Change 5 in Annex 1.