CIRD81130 - R&D tax relief: Company a going concern
FA00/SCH20/PARA18A
A company may only claim- the additional deduction for R&D spending (FA00/SCH20/PARA13);
- alternative treatment of pre-trading expenditure (FA00/SCH20/PARA14), or;
- payable R&D tax credit (FA00/SCH20/PARA15);
if it is a going concern at the time when the claim is made.
A company is a going concern if its latest published
accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, and nothing in the
accounts suggests that that status depends on its receiving R&D
relief or tax credits or VRR or vaccine tax credit.
If the company ceases to be a going concern after making its
claim, the claim is treated as not having been made. However this
does not apply to any relief or credit given before the company
changed its status.
This requirement applies to claims made on or after 1 August
2008 (SI2008/1929).
