SACM3025 - Making and Amending Claims: Quantification by the Taxpayer

Throughout this manual legislative references are to the Taxes Management Act 1970 (TMA70), unless otherwise stated.

S42(1A) says that a claim for relief, an allowance or a repayment of tax must be quantified when it is made. We take this to mean the customer must make the quantification with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

A claim that is in a set amount, such as a claim to a personal allowance, is already quantified and so the taxpayer does not need to do anything to satisfy this requirement.

What does it mean for a claim to be ‘quantified’?

This means that the customer must make the quantification with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Quantifying a claim means providing sufficient information to HMRC so we can give effect to the claim without checking it at that point. If a claim doesn’t include sufficient information for HMRC to give effect to it without asking for further information or making further calculations, the claim is unsatisfactory, see SACM10010.