LFT11030 - Accounting for tax: Bad debt relief and other credits

Bad debt relief

Claiming credit for bad debt relief following deregistration

Regulation 20 provides for entitlement to credit following deregistration and claims should be dealt with as set out in LFT10050.

Repayment of credit

An obligation to repay any credit claimed arises where there is a failure to keep a Landfill Tax bad debt account, the business and accounting records required under Regulation 16 (for example landfill invoices, waste transfer notes, credit and debit notes) or failure to produce records requested under the Finance Act 1996, Schedule 5, paragraph 3. These requirements are in Regulation 28(2).

Credit for waste removed to another landfill site - enforced removal

Credit following deregistration.

Regulation 20 provides for entitlement to credit following deregistration and claims should be dealt with as set out in LFT10050

Credit following Transfer of a Going Concern

Regulation 7(5) provides for the transfer of entitlement to pass to the transferee in the case of a transfer of a going concern. There is no requirement in law for the transferee to have the same registration number but the transferor must have accounted for the tax on the original disposal.

Credit for waste removed for reuse, recycling or incineration

Entitlement to credit

Where the site operator removes bulk waste and cannot get at or identify the earliest stored waste we will accept that removals are movements of that earliest stored waste.

Credit following deregistration

Regulation 20 provides for entitlement to credit following deregistration and claims should be dealt with as set out in LFT10050.

Credit following Transfer of a Going Concern

Regulation 7(5) provides for the transfer of entitlement to pass to the transferee in the case of a transfer of a going concern. There is no requirement in law for the transferee to have the same registration number but the transferor must have accounted for the tax on the original disposal.