Claim super-deduction and deal with asset disposals where super-deduction has been claimed in Corporation Tax

Super-deduction

The 2021 Budget introduced super-deduction for expenditure incurred by companies between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023. These changes are summarised in HM Revenue and Customs Guidance: Super-deduction:
From 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2023, companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will be able to claim:
  • a 130% super-deduction capital allowance on qualifying plant and machinery investments
  • a 50% first-year allowance for qualifying special rate assets
[Super-deduction]
To find out more, refer to HM Revenue and Customs Guidance: Check if you can claim super-deduction or special rate first year allowances.
note
According to its Super-deduction Factsheet, HMRC considers the 130% super-deduction and the 50% special rate first-year allowance to be First Year Allowances.
HM Revenue and Customs added boxes to the 2022 CT600 for super-deduction. Corporation Tax versions 22.0 and 23.0 contain these boxes for super-deduction, but do not automatically write back to these boxes. We intend to add this function later. Until then, you can use the following alternative method to add the rates manually.
important
If you use this alternative manual method, we strongly recommend you review the return when we make automatic writebacks are available. This will help you to make sure you report super-deduction to HMRC and deal with future disposals correctly.

Alternative method using version 22.0 or 23.0 — add super-deduction and special rate first-year allowance manually

  1. Sign in as an administrator.
  2. Go to
    Tools
    ,
    Manager
    , then 
    Computation Parameters
    .
  3. Select the
    CA Rates
    tab.
  4. For Special Rate Assets:
    1. In the row beneath the current details, enter
      01/04/2021
      as the
      Start Date
      .
      note
      Corporation Tax changes the
      End date
      on the row before and enters
      ongoing
      into the row you're editing.
    2. For the
      End date
      , replace
      ongoing
      with
      31/03/23
      .
      note
      This is the last date on which expenditure will qualify for the relief.
    3. Enter
      50
      in the
      FYA %
      column.
      note
      Corporation Tax adds the other rates.
  5. For General Pool:
    1. In the row beneath the current details, enter
      01/04/2021
      as the
      Start Date
      .
      note
      When you enter a
      Start Date
      in a new row, Corporation Tax updates the
      End Date
      on the row above and enters
      ongoing
      as the
      End Date
      of your new row.
    2. For the
      End date
      , replace
      ongoing
      with
      31/03/23
      .
    3. Enter
      130
      in the
      FYA %
      column.
    Corporation Tax screenshot. Shows the Computer Parameters window with the CA Rates tab active. This tab has a grid with 6 columns: Asset Type, Start Date, End Date, FYA %, EZ FYA %, and WDA %. The 2nd row is for Special Rate Assets. It has a start data of 01/04/21 and End Date of 31/03/21. The FYA % is 50, EZ FYA % is 100, and WDA % is 6.  The 14th row is for the General Pool. It has a Start date of 01/04/21, End date of 31/03/23, FYA % 130, EZ FYA % 100, and WDA % 18.
  6. Select
    OK.
  7. When you enter an item in the General Pool or Special Rate Pool with a date from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2023, mark the
    FYA
    checkbox to apply the new rates.
    important
    If you the mark
    FYA
    checkbox, don't also complete the
    AIA
    box.
    When you enter items in the Special Rate Pool with the
    FYA
    checkbox marked, Corporation Tax does not automatically complete the
    Qualifying Additions
    tab in the
    Fixed Assets Reconciliation Summary
    .
  8. If you entered an item in the Special Rate Pool with the
    FYA
    checkbox marked:
    1. Go to
      Accounts
      , then
      Fixed Assets Reconciliation Summary
      .
    2. Select
      Details
      .
    3. Select the
      Qualifying Additions
      tab.
    4. In the
      Special Rate Pool
      row, replace the
      Auto
      item with the correct amount.
    important
    Corporation Tax completes boxes
    705 (allowances)
    and
    760 (Machinery and plant on which FYA is claimed)
    , but you'll need to manually adjust the boxes on the CT600. How you do this depends on your version of Corporation Tax.
  9. To manually adjust boxes if you use Corporation Tax versions 22.0 or 23.0:
    1. Right-click box
      705
      and select
      Enable Editing
      from the context menu.
    2. Change the amount to remove the part that relates to the super-deduction.
      tip
      If you need to remove all the allowance amounts in this box, you can press
      Space bar
      to clear entire box.
    3. Select box
      691 (Machinery and Plant - super-deduction)
      and enter the amount.
    4. To complete the boxes for the special rate allowance:
      1. Right-click box
        695
        and select
        Enable Editing
        .
      2. Change the amount to remove the part that relates to the super-deduction.
      3. Select box
        693 (Machinery and Plant - special rate allowance)
        and enter the amount.
    5. For the expenditure:
      1. Right-click box
        760
        and select
        Enable Editing
        .
      2. Change the amount to remove the part that relates to the super-deduction.
      3. Manually add the amounts to box
        772 (Machinery and Plant - super-deduction)
        and box
        773 (Machinery and Plant - special rate allowance)
        as needed.
    note
    These steps cover the most common scenario where capital allowances affect the trading profits calculation, but you can use the same process for capital allowances that affect non-trading profits and if there are balancing charges. The boxes are:
    • Super-deduction allowances:
      691 (trade)
      and
      741 (non-trade)
      .
    • Special-rate allowances:
      691 (trade)
      and
      743 (non-trade)
      .
    • Super-deduction balancing charges:
      692 (trade)
      and
      742 (non-trade)
      .
    • Special-rate balancing charges:
      700 (trade)
      and
      744 (non-trade)
      .
    • Qualifying Expenditure:
      773 (super-deduction)
      and
      773 (special rate allowance)
      .
note
On 8 November 2021, we reported that HMRC gave the following advice on their Corporation Tax Service Availability page:
If you do need to submit a super-deduction and/or 50% first-year allowance (SR allowance) claim or report a balancing charge online before April 2022, it is possible to do this utilising existing capital allowances boxes. For CT600, boxes 725 and 750 can be used for claim amounts, boxes 730 and 755 can be used to report balancing charges and box 775 can be used for qualifying expenditure until the online service has been updated and new boxes are available.

Enter disposals of assets where super-deduction was claimed

  1. Manually calculate the balancing charge for the asset.
    note
    For details, refer to HMRC Guidance: Disposing of a super-deduction or special rate first year allowance asset to work out the balancing charge.
  2. Create a new user-defined pool for each disposal of this type:
    1. Go to
      Capital Allowances
      .
    2. Select
      Assets
      .
    3. In the
      Other Capital Allowances Claimed
      folder, select
      User-defined Assets
      .
    4. Select
      New
      .
  3. Enter an
    Asset Name
    .
  4. Select
    Add Row
    .
  5. Enter the original
    Addition Date
    .
  6. Enter 0 for the
    Cost / B Fwd
    .
  7. Enter the
    Disposal Date
    .
  8. Enter the
    Proceeds
    amount (this is the balancing charge for the asset you calculated earlier).
  9. Select
    Calculate Allowance
    .
    note
    Corporation Tax will show the disposals in the computation under a separate section for
    Other Assets
    and the disposal and balancing charge amounts as the same figure. You may want to add a note to confirm these are super-deduction amounts and explain how you calculated the balancing charge. To add a note under the
    Other Assets
    section in computation:
    1. Select the
      User-defined Assets
      folder.
    2. Select
      Notes
      .
    3. Enter a note heading and text. 
  10. If the disposal is of an asset where the Special Rate First Year Allowance has been claimed at 50% or where the allowance was not claimed in full, you'll need to go to the Special Rate Pool (or General Pool) and dispose of the portion of the asset in that pool.
    note
    For example, a company boughty an asset for £100,000 in accounting period ending 31/12/21, where it claimed the Special Rate First Year Allowance at 50%. The company sold the asset for £50,000 in the following accounting period. You would need to enter £25,000 as a balancing charge in a user-defined pool, and £25,000 as a disposal in the Special Rate Pool.
  11. These steps will complete box
    730
    on CT600, but you'll need to take the following steps to move the amount to the new boxes:
    1. Right-click box
      692 Super-Deduction
      or
      694 Special Rate Allowance
      as needed, then select
      Enable Editing
      from the context menu.
    2. Enter the balancing charge in one or both of these boxes, as needed.
    3. Select box
      730
      and either press
      Space bar
      to remove the amount or, if there should be other items in the box, replace it with the correct amount.
    note
    If the capital allowances don't relate to a trade, Corporation Tax will complete box
    755
    on the CT600, and you'll need to take the following steps:
    • Right-click
      742 Super-Deduction
      or
      744 Special Rate Allowance
      , then select
      Enable Editing
      from the context menu to enter the amount there.
    • Select box
      755
      and either remove the amount or, if there should be other items in the box, replace it with the correct amount.

Add a note if you applied the alternative method in version 21.2 or earlier

You can add a note to your computation that explains you've used an alternative method to claim the super-deduction and why the company could not wait for the 2022 CT600 form. To add this note:
  1. Go to the
    Capital Allowance Explorer
    .
  2. Select the pool folder.
  3. Select
    Notes
    .
  4. Enter your note, then select
    OK
    .
  5. Select
    Close
    , then
    OK
    .
When you next open the computation, the note will show under the relevant pool section.