Section 71 — Taxes Management Act 1970: Bodies of persons.

Bodies of persons. 71 1 ... every body of persons shall be chargeable to income tax in like manner as any person is chargeable under the Income Tax Acts.

2 Subject to section 108 of this Act, the chamberlain or other officer acting as treasurer, auditor or receiver for the time being of any body of persons chargeable to income tax shall be answerable for doing all such acts as are required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for the purpose of the assessment of the body and for payment of the tax.

3 Every such officer as aforesaid may from time to time retain, out of any money coming into his hands on behalf of the body, so much thereof as is sufficient to pay the income tax charged upon the body, and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of the Income Tax Acts .