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Business Tax- R&D claim with additional information- Box 650/657

You have ticked the R&D ‘additional information box’ and made a R&D claim (either intensive or RDEC) but when you run the CT600 the boxes…

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Business Tax- Non Trade Capital Allowances (Box 290, Pg4)

How to fill in box 290 on the CT600, please follow these steps:-Business tax-Data entry-Claims for capital allowances-Non trading charges and allowances-Enter the figure in…

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IRIS Accountancy AP/BT/PT – When Partner leaves a Two Partner Partnership?

Any trade which changes from 'Partnership type' to a 'Sole trade type' business as it affects Accounts Production/Business Tax/Personal tax please read below : In…

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Personal Tax- MTD ‘Quarter periods missing’ guide

The FULL guide to the KB is linked here, as this is a quick checklist to help new users etc. The four quarters do not…

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Personal Tax- MTD Quarter periods incorrectly ordered 2025/26

The MTD Quarter periods are incorrectly ordered on the Digital Tax Hub summary - This is a random visual issue coming from HMRC (since Summer…

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Personal Tax- Client/Agent is not recognised OR National insurance number is incorrect

The "client or agent not authorised" error in IRIS Personal Tax for MTD or HMRC Data retrieval, this indicates that HMRC does not recognise your…

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Business Tax- Zero Emissions Cars: Box 726 must not be completed box 30 after 1/4/2025 (and 1/4/2026)

IRIS Business Tax is currently following the HMRC schema rules which is creating the error etc and we cannot change this until an update from…

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IAS Personal Tax – Work out the Basis Period Reform transition profit in 2023/24 onwards+ report changes

IAS Personal Tax has been updated to match the HMRC Basis Period Reform (BPR) transition profit calculations. If you wish to check the IRIS Personal…

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IAS24291 Personal Tax- Employment expenses not being applied on Tax comp etc 2025/2026

If you have certain Employment expenses entries and when you run the Tax computation: the Employment expenses are not deducting from the Employment income then…

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IAS23590 Business Tax- R&D Box 653 is incorrectly ticked for CTAP start before 01/04/2025 but ended after 31/03/2023

If you have updated to IRIS version 25.4.0.155 or have updated to the latest HOTFIXES in Dec 2025 but box 653 is still being ticked…