Section 1054: Entitlement to and payment of tax credit
2747.This section allows a small or medium-sized enterprise to claim an R&D tax credit. It is based on paragraphs 15 and 18 of Schedule 20 to FA 2000.
2748.Sections 1054 to 1062 rewrite the paragraphs of Schedule 20 to FA 2000 that allow a small or medium-sized enterprise to surrender a loss, created as a result of the relief, in return for a cash payment described as an “R&D tax credit”.
2749.The section clarifies that a company may make part claims (subsection (2)).
2750.This Act does not rewrite paragraph 24 of Schedule 20 to FA 2000. This provision is no longer required, since the rule allowing the Commissioners for HMRC to deduct money for tax credits before paying their receipts into the Consolidated Fund is set out in sufficiently general terms in section 44 of CRCA (see subsections (1) and (3)(d) of that section). It is worth noting that paragraph 25 of Schedule 13 to FA 2002, which made similar provision to that made by paragraph 24 of Schedule 20 to FA 2000, was repealed by paragraph 96 of Schedule 4 to CRCA.