Corporation Tax Online: internet service technical pack for Software Developers

Note. The pack contains documentation required to support the development of software for the online filing of Corporation Tax returns over the internet from November 2009.

This pack is aimed at Software Developers only and not for businesses/corporations or agents who may wish to use the service, Corporation Tax Online.

For information, the Agent Authorisation technical pack is now available. This contains documentation required to support the development of software for the online filing of Agent Authorisation requests over the Internet

The contents of this pack are frequently updated, please check the website regularly to ensure that you are working with the most up to date version.

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Generic documents

Description

Version number

Version date

The Gateway Document Submission Protocol (PDF 624K) Describes the protocol for communicating with the Government Gateway. Any application wishing to submit eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to HMRC must comply with this protocol.

3.1


6 March 2008

How to use the technical pack (PDF 18K)

1.0

27 July 2009

How to use the test service (PDF 36K)

1.2

30 April 2010

Generic IRmark technical pack This technical pack contains technical specification and examples of the generic IRmark

1.2


28 July 2008

Local Test Service (LTS) and LTS Update Manager (LTSUM)

Description

Local Test Service (LTS) and LTS Update Manager (LTSUM) These tools give you the facility to test your software for HMRC rules compliance within your own environment. They do not have the capability to check iXBRL.

CT600 RIM Artefacts

Description

Version date

LTS

TPVS

Live

Corporation Tax RIM artefacts v3.3 (ZIP 1.6MB)

22 January 2010

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From April 2010

Corporation Tax RIM artefacts v3.4 (ZIP 1.6MB) 23 July 2010 From Aug 2010 From Aug 2010 -
CT600

Description

Version number

Version date

CT Non-Form validation rules (PDF 91K)

1.1

22 July 2010

Additional Guidance (PDF 48K)

1.0

22 July 2010

CT valid sample

1.0

27 July 2009

Appendix A – Rates of Tax (PDF 56K)

1.9

22 July 2010

Appendix B – MRR Validation (PDF 104K)

5.3

22 July 2010

Appendix C – AIA (PDF 59K)

2.1

22 July 2010

CT Specials and Exclusions (PDF 18K)

1.5

16 July 2010

CT Test data (PDF 338K)

1.2

14 October 2009

XBRL Generic

Description

Version date

25 Sept 2009

XBRL UK Technical Guidance (Opens new window)

N/A

Schema reference mapping document (PDF 14K)

9 Aug 2010

XBRL tagging - context entity identifiers (PDF 41K)

3 Aug 2010

HMRC Inline XBRL Style Guide (PDF 218K)

10 March 2010

CT600-iXBRL Cross Document Validations (PDF 16K)

7 April 2010

Joint Filing Validation Checks (PDF 45K)

23 July 2010

Minimum Tagging Requirements

26 May 2010

How To Gain iXBRL Recognition (PDF 25K)

17 June 2010

Computations

Description

Version date

Test Service

Live Service

ct-comp-taxonomy-2008-10-07 (ZIP 500K)

7 Oct 2008

From April 2009

From Nov 2009

ct-comp-taxonomy-2009-07-03 (ZIP 507K)

3 July 2009

From Oct 2009

From Nov 2009

ct-comp-taxonomy-2010-06-15 (ZIP 505K)

15 June 2010

From Aug 2010

From Oct 2010

Valid XML with Computation (ZIP 5K)

4 Nov 2009

N/A

N/A

Computation 'How to do it' Samples (ZIP 12K)

20 Aug 2010

N/A

N/A

09 Aug 2010

N/A

N/A

Accounts

Description

Version date

Test service

Live service

UK GAAP 2008-01-15 (ZIP 687K)

15 Jan 2008

From April 2009

From Nov 2009

UK Common Data 2008-01-15 (ZIP 81K)

15 Jan 2008

From April 2009

From Nov 2009

UK GAAP 2009-09-01 (Includes Common Data Taxonomy) (ZIP 1.3MB) (Opens new window) - Taxonomy updated on 30 July 2010 with technical corrections, for more info see announcement (Opens new window)

30 July 2010

From Feb 2010

From Apr 2010

UK IFRS Taxonomy (ZIP 2.8MB) (Opens new window) - Taxonomy updated on 30 July 2010 with technical corrections, for more info see announcement (Opens new window)

30 July 2010

From Feb 2010

From Apr 2010

UK IFRS 'How to do it' Samples (ZIP 180K)

20 August 2010

N/A

N/A

UK GAAP 'How to do it' Samples (ZIP 80K)

20 August 2010

N/A

N/A

Valid XML with Accounts (ZIP 19K)

09 Aug 2010

N/A

N/A

Further supporting documents will be added to the technical pack in due course.