Tax Reconciliation  

To access this screen select Data Entry | Calculation | Tax reconciliation

This screen shows boxes 530 to 615. (For periods starting before 01 April 2015, boxes 87 to 94 respectively ) on the CT600.

 

Box 530 - Research & Development credit

Above the Line Tax Credit

From the Tax Reconciliation screen click Total of Research and Development credit, vaccine tax credit, or creative tax credit Edit.

Click Details for the Above the Line tax credit to access the data entry screen for this tax credit.

Within the data entry screen enter the qualifying expenditure in field A and select the tax credit rate either 10% or 49%. The calculated value of field A x % credit rate will be displayed in field B and in the Above the Line tax credit field.

The other fields on this screen are free entry except fields F and L which are calculated fields. Once the tax credit has been calculated in field B, this and the other fields with a value entered / calculated will be reported in the notes section of the Enhanced Corporation Tax Computation.

Research & Development

From the Tax Reconciliation screen click Total of Research and Development credit, vaccine tax credit, or creative tax credit Edit.

Enter the tax credit available for research and development tax credit.

This should be restricted to the lower of:

Box 535 - Vaccine tax credit

From the Tax Reconciliation screen click Total of Research and Development credit, vaccine tax credit, or creative tax credit Edit.

Enter the tax credit available for Vaccine tax credit.

Box 540 - Creative tax credit

From the Tax Reconciliation screen click Total of Research and Development credit, vaccine tax credit, or creative tax credit Edit.

Enter the tax credit and select the payable credit rate for either Film, Drama, Documentary, Animation, Television, Video games or Theatre. Please note that this will be 25% for Drama, Documentary, Animation, Television and Video games, and either 25% or 20% for Film and Theatre.

The company's loss carried forward is adjusted by the tax credit multiplied by 100/Credit Rate.

Each Film, Drama, Documentary, Animation, Television, Video games and Theatre tax credit field is only accessible where there is a net trading loss for the period.

This field is only accessible if the account period end date is on or after 1 April 2006.

Box 550 - Land remediation tax credit

Click Edit to enter the Land remediation tax credit in either the Trade or Property Income field. Depending on your entry the Trading loss memo or the Property Income memo will be adjusted by the amount in this field multiplied by 100/16.

The amount entered should be restricted to the lower of:

 

Box 555 - Life assurance company tax credit

Enter the tax credit available for Life assurance company tax credit tax credit.

Box 565 - Capital allowances first-year tax credit

Use this field to enter the tax credit to be claimed.

The amount entered should be restricted to the lower of:

The company's loss carried forward will automatically be adjusted by the amount in this field multiplied by 100/19.

Box 595 - Tax already paid (and not already paid)

Use this field to enter any corporation tax already paid for this return period.

Box 610 - Group tax refunds surrendered to this company

Enter any Group tax refunds surrendered in the field provided.

Box 615 - Research and Development expenditure credits surrendered to this company

Enter any tax Research and Development expenditure credits surrendered in the field provided.