Change partnership to a sole trade
Article ID
ias-12118
Article Name
Change partnership to a sole trade
Created Date
13th October 2015
Product
IRIS Personal Tax
Problem
How does IRIS deal with a partnership that has changed to a sole trade?
Resolution
Users are required to enter a ‘To’ date for the partner/s who left the partnership. This can be entered by going into Client | View | Related | Involvements.
The followings are expected:
Scenario 1: Partnership changes to a sole trade during accounting period and tax year
Business Tax:
-Prints a partnership return with an end date automatically entered in box 3.8 for the period in which the partner leaves.
-Treats the business as a sole trade for any future periods.
Personal Tax:
-Prints partnership pages for all partners for this tax year
-Prints self employment pages for future periods.
-Personal Tax Computation will show the income as Partnership in the year that changed from Partnership to Sole Trade, in future years it will show as Self-Employment
Scenario 2: Partnership changes to a sole trade after the accounting period ends but within the tax year
Business Tax:
-Generates two sets of partnership return pages:
-One for the accounting period which ends during the tax year
-One for the accounting period which ends during the next tax year
Both sets of pages will contain:
-Figures on the trading and professional income pages
-A date of cessation in box 3.8
-A date of cessation against the departing partner.
Partnership pages will not be generated in the following tax year as they have already been returned in the preceding period.
Personal Tax:
-Generates partnership pages for all partners for this tax year and the following tax year.
-For periods after that, Personal Tax will generate self employment pages.
-Within the Computation it will show the income as Partnership in the year that it changed from a Partnership to a Sole Trade and in future years it will show as Self-Employment
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