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MX 4: R&D loss tax credits
or “Tax credits for research and development losses”
You could also call this:

“How cancelled R&D tax loss credits affect your yearly tax losses”

If you have R&D tax loss credits, the Commissioner will cancel some of your tax loss for the year. The amount cancelled is worked out by dividing your R&D loss tax credits by the basic tax rate for companies. This means you can’t use that part of your tax loss anymore.

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Part M Tax credits paid in cash
Tax credits for R&D tax losses

MX 5Cancellation of R&D tax losses

  1. The Commissioner must extinguish the person’s tax loss for a tax year to the extent of the amount calculated by dividing the amount of the R&D loss tax credits for the tax year by the basic tax rate for a company.

Notes
  • Section MX 5: inserted (with effect on 1 April 2015 and applying for income years beginning on or after that date), on , by section 213(1) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).