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- December 3, 2014 at 4:55 pm #216945
Hi,
Can anyone help me with this.
Past questions seem inconsistent as to when you use marginal relief and when to just use the marginal rates to calculate the corp tax.
Anything to do with fII? I’ve seen examples of using marginal relief with and without FII but have then read confusing comments that you use only marginal rates (not marginal relief formula) if there is no fII?
Hopefully that makes sense.
Thanks
SteveDecember 3, 2014 at 8:34 pm #217084Marginal relief is available on augmented profits and between the margins, if it exists. Augmented is the combined trade profit and franked investment income.
You are taxing the combination of both, if there is no FII, then just use profit total
The idea of marginal relief is to provide relief to companies that are not small, or large, but inbetween.
December 4, 2014 at 12:56 am #217148First you need to establish whether the company is subject to MR this is based on the number of associated companies in the relevant cap if the augmented profits(ttp plus franked investment income including income received from overseas grossed up by any overseas tax) fall between the lower limits and higher limits then you should tax total taxable profits at the main rate and use the marginal relief formula to make a deduction to the tax. Overseas subsidaries will form part of the associates if under control by the parent or under common control of the same individual.Profits falling in this marginal level are taxed at 23.75 percent as a effective rate which is something to consider if the company is part of a group and is surrendering or receiving losses from group members
April 1, 2015 at 1:55 pm #239808Hi mate,
If there is no FII and the company is eligible for marginal relief, then you can calculate the CT due in two ways.
1) using the marginal relief formula i.e. TTP x Main rate of CT, minus Marginal Relief, or
2) multiply the profits which are within the small co limit (£300,000) by the Small Co rate (20%) and multiply the remainder of the profit using the marginal rate. Add the two figures.April 2, 2015 at 10:31 pm #239954From what I have studied so far you never use the marginal rate to calculate corp tax liability – you only use the marginal relief formula i.e. providing the company is neither small nor large and is eligible for marginal relief.
The only time you use the marginal rate (21.25% F2014) is to show tax savings where the company gets a relief (perhaps group loss relief etc.) where they otherwise would have been taxed at the marginal rate.
May 6, 2015 at 2:05 pm #244338AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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The first step for corporation tax should always be calculating the limits by dividing the upper and lower limit ( by adding the parent and the subsidiaries).
Once you arrive at the AP(TTP + FII{they are the dividends from non-associated companies only}), you need to check that it falls under/between which limits.
If its falls in between of upper and lower limit, then you can give company marginal relief.
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