Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No refund of the tax shall be claimable from the Commissioner under rule 60 unless notice in writing of the occurrence of the circumstances giving rise to such claim or of the commencement of circumstances which may give rise to such claim has been given to the Commissioner by the person who paid the tax or his agent. (2) If such notice is not received by the Commissioner within three days of the oc currence or commencement of the circumstances as aforesaid, the period previous to the date of the receipt of the notice shall be excluded in computing the period referred to in rule 60, for the purposes of granting any refund. (3) It shall be in the discretion of the Commissioner to disallow any claim for refund of the tax, unless application claiming such refund is made to him in writing before the expiry of fifteen days after the end of the half year to which the claim relates and is accompanied by the bill served on the applicant under rule 39 for the amount of the tax from which the refund is claimed or, if no bill was served, the official receipt for such amount.