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This article explains how boxes 330 and 380 are populated in the Corporation Tax Return. Boxes 330 and 380 refer to the financial years and are located within the Corporation Tax Chargeable page. The financial year for HMRC corporation tax purposes (in terms of rate and other changes) runs from...

This article relates to V2 form of 2006 version of CT600. For the version 3 form, please see the link to 'How to complete the entries of consent V3 2015 form'. If you are completing the group and consortium pages to either claim or surrender losses for group relief, you may have to add a notice...

If you receive a message similar to the following when creating a PDF or previewing one, it means that there is an illegal character at the end of the client's name. The character(s) normally show as a space and are most often carriage returns caused by copying and pasting the name from...

To enter multiple entries for Capital Gains Tax on your SA900 return, follow these steps: Go to Capital Gains > CG 1. Enter the figures for gains and losses. If you have different types of disposal, column AA, type Q,U,L,O you may need to split further. Add a further page if you have...

When creating a period for a CT600, you have the option of specifying the period manually or using the existing Accounting Period. To use the Accounting Period dates: Open Practice Manager. Right-click on the client. Select Open in Tax Return Production. Click on New Return. Change the...

If you import your tax return from the previous year, you might see imported text above box 19 of the Additional Information section. This text often relates to data contained within a wizard such as losses, pensions and so on. If this data is not required in the current year, you’ll need to...

If you've completed the Capital Gains Tax pages in SimpleStep mode, the appropriate disposal, intermediate and final calculations will be in a pdf that's automatically attached to the return. You can view and print all your disposals and the intermediate and final summaries by following these...

HMRC publishes a series of toolkits to give guidance on areas where there are frequent errors in tax returns. These toolkits also set out steps you can take to reduce these errors. They are updated every year as required. The toolkits are available on the HMRC website (as PDFs) and cover the...

If the IRmark and time stamp are on the top of each page, and on the pdf preview but don't appear when you print your return, check your printer settings: Go to the heading Page Sizing & Handling. Click on Fit. Click on Fit to printable area or Shrink to fit (or similar). Print document. ...

If you receive this error message it means that either the downloaded file is corrupt or it contains special characters that HMRC's systems can't read. Corrupt file If you opened the downloaded file then used File > Save As, it might be corrupt. The correct way to save a downloaded file...

In certain instances, customers have reported that they are having difficulties in deleting a CT return from the TaxCalc application. This is specifically in instances where users are on the practice interface and use our Accounts Production module too. We are looking to input additional...

Information required by HMRC before submitting claims for all R&D tax relief 1. For accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2023, you should check if you need to submit a claim notification form to notify HMRC in advance of your claim. A claim notification form should be submitted...

From 1 April 2023, the rate used for calculating the payable tax credit reduced from 14.5% to 10% for the R&D SME scheme. HMRC have issued guidance within the Research and Development manual (CIRD90500) on how to calculate the total payable tax credit when the accounting periods straddle 1...

If your return has one box for profit and another for loss, the loss figure will appear without brackets. Brackets are only used to denote a negative figure when the same box is used for profit and loss.