TPC60010 - Claims: How relief is claimed
Television Tax Relief (TTR) is a corporation tax relief. The television production company听(TPC) must claim the relief for each relevant accounting period through Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA).听The听TPC must听complete the appropriate section (鈥淚nformation about enhanced expenditure鈥) in the CT600听 tax return form.
The tax return must听also听be accompanied by the requried supplementary information, and by either an interim or final certificate issued听by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport confirming听that the programme is British (TPC40030).
From 1 April 2019, all claims which are made in an amended CTSA and that are not made through听through the online COTAX gateway, must include a completed CT600 and a听corporation tax computation.听
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Additional deduction
The TPC should indicate that it is claiming TTR with the software that it is using to submit听its return. Version 2 only applies to accounting periods starting before 1 April 2015. Depending on the version, the following boxes should be completed:
Description听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 CT600:听听听 Version 2听听听听听听听听听听 Version 3
Tax due听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听86听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听525
Creative tax credit听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听_ 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 540听
Amount claimed听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 87听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 545
Amount payable听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 89听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 570
Creative enhanced expenditure听听听听听听听听听 _ 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听听 665
Film/Creative tax relief听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听67听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 n/a
Enhanced expenditure听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听101听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 670
Payable tax credit听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听168听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 885
Boxes 99, 100, 102 and 103 are not relevant to TTR in version 2.
Example
A TPC incurs total expenditure of 拢450k on a British programme. Of this expenditure, 拢400k is core expenditure. 拢300k (75%) of that core expenditure is incurred in the United Kingdom, and 拢100k (25%) elsewhere. The company is entitled to the following deductions:
- 拢450k 鈥榦rdinary鈥 deduction, plus
- 拢300k additional deduction (the core UK expenditure is less than 80% of 拢400k, so it all qualifies (TPC55020)).
This gives a total deduction of 拢750k.
The figure that should be entered in box 101 (the 鈥榚nhanced expenditure figure鈥 referred to in the Note to box 101) is 拢300k.
Payable tax credit
If the company is claiming any payable tax credit, then it should enter the gross amount of the tax credit before any payment of tax is due in the relevant boxes above.
Interim claims
The legislation allows relief to be claimed on an interim basis, assuming that the required conditions have been met. A programme may or may not have a strict budget, but where one is available it should be clear whether the criteria are going to be met.
Certain conditions which determine entitlement to (or the amount of)听the relief can only be met with certainty once the programme has been completed. This includes the criteria for:
- British programmes (TPC40030),
- required minimum amount of UK expenditure (TPC40040), and
- relevant programmes (TPC40050).
For a programme to be a British programme it must be certified as such by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) (TPC40030). Certification will depend on who is involved in the production and where the programme is made. Although the initial plan may be to make a programme which qualifies as British, changes in response to circumstances (such as the unavailability of a lead actor) may mean that the eventual programme does not.
Similarly, if a programme has estimated core expenditure close to the minimum of 拢1 million per hour of slot time, it may be that on completion the core expenditure related to the programme is less than required. This would mean that the programme would not qualify as a relevant programme for the purposes of Part 15A Corporation Tax Act 2009 (TPC40050).
If any of the conditions are not actually met on completion of the programme, then the position is adjusted to reflect the outcome. In cases where the payable tax credit has been claimed, this will be repayable to HMRC. Interest will by chargeable on this amount but provided that no careless or deliberate error has been made, no penalty will usually be charged.
Supplementary Information
Claims should be supported by certain additional information. There are two cases with differing requirements:
- programmes which are completed within a single accounting period, and
- programmes whose production takes more than one period.
Each of these cases is covered at TPC60020.