Source: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/cirdmanual/cird11678.htm
Timestamp: 2013-05-18 19:22:22
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Matched Legal Cases: ['ART8', 'ART8', 'art 8', 'art 8', 'art 8', 'art 8']

CIRD11678 - Intangible assets within CTA09/PART8: FA02 rule: general conditions: time when asset created or acquired: whether expenditure on creation or on enhancement of asset
CIRD11678 - Intangible assets within CTA09/PART8: FA02 rule: general conditions: time when asset created or acquired: whether expenditure on creation or on enhancement of assetPractical issues
In applying the FA02 rule to goodwill and other internally generated assets normally built up out of revenue expenditure, special rules (see CIRD11675) avoid the need to determine to what extent the realisation proceeds of such an asset, partly created before and partly after 1 April 2002, fall within Part 8.
But in the case of other internally generated assets there is no special rule and it is a question of fact whether expenditure incurred on or after 1 April 2002 is on the creation of a new asset or the enhancement of a pre-FA 2002 asset.
Internal software development expenditure
It may be difficult to decide whether expenditure on such software incurred soon after 1 April 2002 constitutes one of the following:
an enhancement of a pre-FA 2002 asset created before 1 April 2002 (which would be not allowable under Part 8)
creation of a new asset after 31 March 2002 (and so within Part 8)
part of a continuous process of creating an asset which is not yet complete - in which case the expenditure after 31 March 2002 will again fall within Part 8 (under the general rule described in CIRD11670).
Where the company has written off the expenditure as incurred this issue is likely to have significant practical consequences only if expenditure incurred on or after 1 April 2002 regarded as enhancing an existing asset would be capital on general tax principles.
Cases where expenditure on enhancing a pre-FA 2002 asset (rather than creating a new one) can be viewed as capital are only likely to arise where it has been accepted that the earlier creation of the system was capital, see BIM35845. Cases of capital enhancement expenditure are therefore likely to be unusual.