CIRD13550 - Core computational rules: CT computation: intangible assets not used for a trade or property business: surrender of non-trading loss as group relief

ICTA88/S403 and S403ZD

Where the aggregation of non-trading debits and credits described in CIRD13530 results in a loss (a ‘non-trading loss’) a company may surrender all or part of that loss by way of group relief.

The amount surrendered must exclude:

• sums carried forward from previous periods as mentioned in CIRD13530 (see ICTA88/S403ZD (6)), and
• amounts which when aggregated with charges on income, Schedule A losses and management expenses do not exceed the company’s ‘gross profits’ for the accounting period to which the loss relates (ICTA88/S403 (3)). Where there is such an excess the extent to which the loss surrendered consists of non-trading losses is subject to the ordering rule described below.

For this purpose, a company’s ‘gross profits’ (see ICTA88/S403ZE) are the profits for the accounting period before they are reduced by any losses and other allowances of the same or any other accounting period. See CTM80110.

Where a non-trading loss arising from intangible assets and one or more sums consisting of charges on income, Schedule A losses or management expenses together exceed a company’s ‘gross profits’ the amount surrendered by way of group relief (up to that excess) is to be regarded as far as possible as consisting of the other reliefs in priority to the non-trading loss.

Otherwise, the group relief rules described in CTM80100 onwards apply.