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Corporation Tax Act 2009

Section 1075: R&D threshold

2804.This section gives the minimum amount of expenditure that a company must incur in an accounting period to claim relief under this Chapter. It is based on paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to FA 2002.

2805.The minimum amount of expenditure is £10,000, reduced proportionately if the accounting period is less than 12 months long. As in section 1050, the source legislation does not explicitly state how the reduction is done. Subsection (2) removes any uncertainty by prescribing the arithmetic formula to be used. See Change 78 in Annex 1.

2806.The normal operation of section 61 is not suspended. So pre-trading expenditure that is bunched into the accounting period in which the trade starts counts towards the threshold (see subsection (4)).

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