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Here you can access summary of the key current tax developments in Ireland, the UK and internationally as reported by Chartered Accountants Ireland

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Research & Development Tax Credit

Revenue has published an updated version of their Research & Development Tax Credit Guidance. The updates are mainly minor formatting and clarifications.

The below table, as provided to us by Revenue, sets out the updates:

The guidance is published on the Revenue website.

Page

Section

Nature of Change

1

Title

Date of version changed to April 2015

9

2.5

Change ‘payable’ to ‘paid’ in section (i)

11

2.5

Change to note in example number 8 to fix typo in 2016 explanation

13

2.7

Change wording to clarify that timing of claims for 2nd and 3rd payable credits is linked to 21st day of 9th month following end of relevant period

13

2.7

Change from “other” to “subsequent”

18

3.7

Deleted extra bracket symbol

21

4.2

Deletion of extra detail in relation to pro-rata costs for staff over 52 weeks for clarity

24

4.6

Insert a full stop at the end of final sentence

25

5.1

Clarification added to explain that there is a choice of two dates for claims for buildings

25

5.1

Insert the phrase ‘it was actually incurred, or on the date’ to clarify how aggregate expenditure may be treated

28

5.3

Insert the word ‘on’ in the first sentence

29

5.3

Heading re-formatted