Part 13Additional relief for expenditure on research and development

Chapter 2Relief for SMEs: cost of R&D incurred by SME

Reliefs: further provision

1049Restriction on consortium relief

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

a company claims relief under section 1044 or elects to obtain relief under section 1045 in respect of an accounting period,

(b)

at any time during the period the company is owned by a consortium, and

(c)

at least one of the members of the consortium is a large company.

(2)

The amount of the relief obtained in respect of the accounting period may not be surrendered by the company to another company, for the purposes of a consortium group relief claim, unless the other company is a small or medium-sized enterprise.

(3)

A “consortium group relief claim” means a claim to group relief F1based on consortium condition 1, 2 or 3 in sections 132 and 133 of CTA 2010 (group relief available between members of consortia).