TTR60010 - Claims: how relief is claimed

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappatre Tax Relief (TTR) is a corporation tax relief.Ìý»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp theatre production companyÌý(TPC) must claim the relief for each relevant accounting period through Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA).Ìý»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappÌýTPC mustÌýcomplete the appropriate section (“Information about enhanced expenditureâ€�) in the CT600Ìý tax return form.

For claims made on or after 1 April 2024, the tax return mustÌýalsoÌýbe accompanied by an additional information form, completed before or on the same day as the tax return is submitted. This form must containÌýthe required supplementary information (see TTR60020).

A list of recognised suppliers that provide software for tax returns and supplementary pages is available at Corporation Tax: commercial software suppliers (GOV.UK). Questions about the software being used should be directed to the software or service provider.

From 1 April 2019, all claims which are made in an amended CTSA and that are not made throughÌýthrough the online COTAX gateway, must include a completed CT600 and aÌýcorporation tax computation.
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Additional deduction

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp TPC should indicate that it is claiming TTR using the software that it is submitting its return with. All returns are now expected to be filed online. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp relevant boxes to complete are as detailed below depending on the return version used.

Description CT600 Version 3 Box number
Tax due 525
Creatives tax credit 540
Amount claimed 545
Amount payable 570
Creatives core expenditure (not supported by all software) 663
Creatives additional deduction 665
Enhanced expenditure 670
Payable creatives tax credit 885

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp company should also tick boxes 650 and 658 to confirm it has completed an additional information form. Some software does not include these boxes.

Example

A TPC incurs total expenditure of £450k on a qualifying production.Ìý Of this expenditure, £400k is core expenditure.Ìý £300k (75%) of that core expenditure is UK expenditure and £100k (25%) is non-UK expenditure.Ìý »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp company is entitled to the following deductions:

  • £450k 'ordinary' deduction, plus
  • £300k additional deduction (the core UK expenditure is less than 80% of £400k, so it all qualifies (TTR55020)).

Giving a total deduction of £750k.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp figure that should be entered in box 663 (if the software used supports that box) is the core expenditure, £400k. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp figure that should be entered in box 665 is the additional deduction, £300k.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappatre Tax Credit

If the company is claiming payable »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappatre Tax Credit (TTC), then it should enter the gross amount of the tax credit before any payment of tax is due in the relevant boxes as above.Ìý

Supplementary information

Claims should be supported by certain additional information, using the additional information form.Ìý »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappre are two cases with differing requirements:

  • productions which are completed within a single accounting period, and
  • productions that span more than one period.

Each of these cases is covered at TTR60020.
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