Enter Coronavirus grants and payments in Personal Tax
Categories of Coronavirus payments in Personal, Business and Trust Tax
To enter Coronavirus payments, you'll need to know:
1. Were the payments claimed correctly?
2. Which of the following categories they belong to:
- Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS): Persons only.
- Coronavirus Support Payments: All client types. (This includes all Coronavirus payments other than SEISS, for example furlough claims, Eat Out to Help Out, and Job Retention Bonus.)
Correctly claimed: SEISS (Persons only)
- For a Sole Trade Instance (a person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade, then theSole Trade Name.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectCorrectly claimed grants.noteThis populates either box 27.1 in SA103S, or box 70.1 in SA103F.
- For a Business Tax sole trade (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade, then theSole Trade Name.
- SelectCurrent Year Tax Details.
- Select theCoronavirus Paymentstab.
- SelectCorrectly claimed grants.noteThis populates box 27.1 in SA103S or box 70.1 of SA103F.
- For Partnership income (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectPartnership Income.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectCorrectly claimed grants.noteYou will always need to enter this manually, whether or not the partnership is a client, because it does not get reported on the partnership return. It will populate box 9.1 of SA104S/SA104F.
The Sole Trades backing schedule includes a
Self Employment Income Support Scheme grants
row in the Adjustments to Arrive at Profit/Loss for Tax (Assessable Profits)
section.The Partnership Income backing schedule includes a
Self Employment Income Support Scheme grants
row in the Share of Trading Income
section.You should enter SEISS based on what was received in the tax year, not the accounting period. For tax calculation, it is part of trading income and so subject to tax and National Insurance. It's also part of adjusted net income for the year for calculating, for example, pension charges and student loans.
note
- SEISS is not subject to overlap rules.
- The trading allowance cannot be set against SEISS.
- SEISS can be offset by current year losses and brought forward losses, and the software will deal with this automatically.
- SEISS will be included in profits for averaging purposes.
You can find guidance from HMRC in its Internal Business Manual: Specific receipts: Coronavirus Support Payments - Self Employment Income Support Scheme.
Correctly Claimed: Coronavirus Support Payments
You enter correctly claimed payments in the Other Income/Profits field of the normal trading schedules.
- For a Sole Trade Instance (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade, then theSole Trade Name.
- Select theProfit and Losstab.
- SelectOther Income/ProfitsnoteThis will populate box 10 in SA103S, or box 16 in SA103F for an individual, or box 1.50 in SA901 for a trust/estate.
- For a Business Tax Sole Trade (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade, thenSole Trade Name.
- Expand theAccounts, thenAccounting periodfolders.
- SelectBusiness Accounts.
- Select theProfit and Losstab.
- SelectOther Income/Profits.noteThis will populate box 10 inSA103S, or box 16 in SA103F for an individual, of box 1.50 in SA901 for a trust/estate.
- For a Client Partnership (Partnership):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- Select theAccounts, thenAccounting periodfolders.
- SelectBusiness Accounts.
- Select theProfit and Losstab.
- SelectOther Income/Profits.noteThis will populate box 3.50 in SA800. This figure will be included in the overallProfit/Lossallocated to the partners and filters through to the individual's record inPartnership Income Trading.
- For a Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectIncome from Property.
- Select theFHL property.
- Select theDetails and Gross Rentstab.
- Select theIncome Grossfield.noteThis will populate box 5 in SA105 for an individual or box 3.1 in SA903 for a trust/estate
Declaration for Correctly Claimed Payments
If you include correctly claimed Coronavirus amounts on a return, you'll also need to mark the
All coronavirus support payments have been included as taxable income
checkbox.- For Person and Trust/Estate returns:
- SelectOther Return Information.
- SelectCoronavirus Support Payments.
- If there are any correctly claimed Coronavirus Suport Payments (not SEISS), mark theAll coronavirus support payments have been included as taxable incomecheckbox.noteThis will populate box 20.1 (Declaration) on page TR8 of the SA100 andbox 21.6A (Other Information) on page 11 of the SA900, as required.
- For Partnerships
- Select Other Return Information.
- Select Form Options.
- Mark theAll coronavirus support payments have been included as taxable incomecheckbox.noteThis will populate box 10.4 (Other Information) of page 8 in the SA800.
Incorrectly claimed: SEISS (persons only)
(persons only)
- Sole Trade Instance:
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- Select theSole Trade Name.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectIncorrectly claimed grants.noteThe section calledCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Job Retention Bonusincludes any incorrect payments other than SEISS.
- For a Business Tax Sole Trade:
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade.
- Select the Sole Trade Name.
- SelectCurrent Tax Year Details.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- Select Incorrectly claimed grants.
- For Partnership Income:
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectPartnership Income.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectIncorrectly claimed grants.noteThis is always a manual entry, regardless of whether the partnership is a client or not, as it does not get reported on the partnership return.
The total amount of incorrect claims are shown in the
Other Return Information
Coronavirus Support Payments
field. You can edit this field, in case any other payments need to be included that aren't related to sole trades or partnerships. The total figure then populates box 2 on page 5 of the SA100, in the Incorrectly claimed coronavirus support scheme payments section.For computation purposes, the incorrectly claimed amount will be added to any other incorrectly claimed Coronavirus support payments and the total will show in the Computation Summary as 'Incorrectly claimed coronavirus support payments @ 100%', so incorrect amounts are effectively reclaimed in full.
There is no separate backing schedule to give a breakdown of this figure and the incorrectly claimed amounts are not included in the sole trade or partnership income backing schedules either. The incorrectly claimed payments charge can be reduced by actual tax deducted, but not by notional and non-repayable credits. It will affects payments on account due for the following year.
Incorrectly Claimed: Coronavirus Support Payments
Incorrectly claimed payments are assessed on a tax year basis. You enter them on the
Coronavirus Support Payments
tab (available from tax year 2020/21 onwards) in the Sole Trade and Partnership schedules. If an incorrect payment has already been declared and paid back to HMRC, you will not need enter it on the return. - Sole Trade Instance (persons or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade.
- Select theSole Trade Name.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectIncorrectly claimed grants and payments.noteThe section calledCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Job Retention Bonusincludes any incorrect payments other than SEISS.
- Business Tax Sole Trade (person or trust/estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectSole Trade.
- Select theSole Trade Name.
- SelectCurrent Year Tax Details.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- Select Incorrectly claimed grants and payments.
- Partnership Income (Person & Trust/Estate):
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectPartnership Income.
- Select theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab.
- SelectIncorrectly claimed grants and payments.noteIf the partnership is set up as a non-client, you can enter the incorrectly claimed amount manually. If the partnership is a client, Personal, Business and Trust Tax will draw the figure through automatically from the partnership record, which means you cannot edit this field.
- Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) (person or trust/estate):
- There is no specific data entry point for incorrectly claimed payments for an FHL
- You will need to edit the figure inOther Return Informationto include this amount.
notePersonal, Business, and Trust Tax shows the total amount of incorrect claims in theCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Job Retention Bonussection. To find this section, go toOther Return Information,Coronavirus Support Payments, thenIncorrectly claimed grants and payments.You can edit this field in case you need to include any other payments that are not related to sole trades or partnerships (for example, FHLs). The total figure then populates box 1 on page TR5 of SA100 for a person, or box 21.6B on page 11 of the SA900 for a trust/estate.For computation purposes, Personal, Business and Trust Tax will add the incorrectly claimed amount to any incorrectly claimed SEISS, and the total will show in the Computation Summary as 'Incorrectly claimed coronavirus support payments @100%', so incorrect amounts are effectively reclaimed in full.There is no separate backing schedule to give a breakdown of this figure and the incorrectly claimed amounts are not included in the sole trade or partnership income backing schedules either. The incorrectly claimed payments charge can be reduced by actual tax deducted, but not by notional and non-repayable credits. It’s also worth noting that it also impacts on the payments on account due for the following year. - For Client Partnership (Partnership):
- Select Edit, then Schedule Editor.
- Select New.
- Select Coronavirus Support Payments – 2020/21.
- EditSchedule EditorNewCoronavirus Support Payments – 2020/21.note
- TheDescriptionfield defaults to ‘Incorrectly claimed Coronavirus Support Payments’, but you can change this.
- The amount entered will be split in thePartner Splittab, which uses the same percentages as the trading income (provided a trading split has been entered), but you can edit this.
- This will populate the SA800, box 3.118 and boxes 12B on the Partnership Statement. Although box 12B sits in the section for an accounting period, HMRC expect the amount to be entered on a tax year basis as per their guidance notes.
- The relevant partner share then filters through to thePartnership IncomeCoronavirus Support Paymentstab in an individual’s record.
- For trusts, the incorrectly claimed payments charge doesn't interact with the tax pool at all.
- For partnerships:
- There is a backing schedule called Coronavirus Support Payments, which will list multiple items.
- The Profit Apportionment backing schedule and Partnership Statement report have also been updated to reflect the Incorrectly claimed Coronavirus Support Payments.
SEISS / Other Coronavirus payments included in amount imported from Digita Accounts Production
- Guidance from HMRC. HMRC’s notes for filling in SA103F full pages include the following guidance on Coronavirus payments:
- Box 15 (Turnover): 'Do not include coronavirus support payments in box 15 (see box 16 and box 70.1)'.
- Box 16 (Other Income): 'Do not include in box 16 payments from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) - see box 70.1'.
- Box 70.1 (Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant): 'If you received any payments under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), only include in box 70.1 the amount you were entitled to'.noteHMRC do not want SEISS disclosed as income forming part of the net profit, but instead, SEISS payments have their own dedicated entry point after tax adjustments in the SA103 pages. You should enter other Covid payments as ‘Other Income’ and this will form part of the net profit.
- SEISS payments: If you've included SEISS in your income in Accounts Production Advanced, then depending on which tax category your nominal code for this entry is assigned to, the amount will import as either turnover or other income in the Profit and Loss dialog in Personal, Business and Trust Tax. Both of these entry points are not inline with what HMRC expect to see reported and so you will need to remove them from either the turnover or other income entry point. It's not possible to make an entry in Accounts Production Advanced that posts directly to theSEISS – Correctly Claimed Grantsentry point with theCoronavirus Support Paymentstab Personal, Business and Trust Tax because this is outside the main Proft and Loss. If you remove any SEISS income imported from Accounts Production Advanced, it will cause balance sheet validation issues.
- Other CV19 payments: If you have included Other CV19 payments/grants in your income in Accounts Production Advanced then, depending on which tax category your nominal code for this entry is assigned to, the amount will import as turnover or other income in Personal, Business and Trust Tax. If reported as turnover (box 15), this is incorrect because HMRC want this type of payment reported as Other income (box 16). You would need to either move the amount from turnover to other income in Personal Business and Trust Tax, or change your nominal code/tax category in Accounts Production Advanced as necessary and re-import the accounts.
Balance sheet and tax return validation issues
If you have included SEISS as income in Accounts Production Advanced, it will form part of your balance sheet and the removal of SEISS income from turnover/other in Personal, Business and Trust Tax will mean that your balance sheet in Personal Tax will no longer balance or match the balance sheet in Accounts Production Advanced.
If you follow HMRC guidance and remove SEISS from turnover/other income in Personal, Business and Trust Tax, then the net profit/loss from boxes 47/48 of the SA103 will not include your SEISS payment, whereas box 96 on the SA103 (net profit in balance sheet) will show (as per your accounts) a figure which does incorporate the SEISS figure.
As a results, you will get the following validation error:
'Error #6836: The amount entered in box "Net profit or loss" (FSE96) must equal the amount entered in "Net profit or Net loss" (FSE47/FSE48). Please check. XML Location: /hd:GovTalkMessage[1]/hd:Body[1]/MTR:IRenvelope[1]/MTR:MTR[1]/MTR:SA103F[1]/MTR:BalanceSheet[1]/MTR:CapitalAccount[1]/MTR:NetProfitOrLoss[1]'
HMRC have acknowledged this issue and created Special No. 42 in Specials Cases v1.0 (4 May) where they advise to also include the amount of the SEISS payment in box 97 (capital introduced) rather than box 96 in order to bypass this validation error.
You may wish to return to this help topic to check if there are any further updates by HMRC.
Non-Business related Coronavirus Support Payments
There is some limited guidance on reporting Other Coronavirus payments in the notes:taken from SA150 guidance notes for the SA100 tax return: '
Box
17 (Other taxable income)
- This includes 'taxable coronavirus support payments (if not reported elsewhere in this tax return)' Test and Trace payments, for instance, are taxable although HMRC's SA100 guidance notes do not specifically mention this and, if the tax payer has no self employment (SA103) or partnership pages (SA104) to report such payments, then box 17 of the main tax return appears to be the only place to declare other Coronavirus payments. If you are unsure of where a particular payment should be reported, you would need to clarify this with HMRC. For more information, go to the Apply for a Test and Trace Support Payment page on gov.uk.
To populate box 17 of the SA100:
- SelectEdit, thenSchedule Editor.
- SelectOther Income.
- SelectNew.
- SelectOther Earned.