CIRD75400 | VRR: qualifying expenditure: on sub-contracted R&D

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A company can claim VRR for its qualifying expenditure on R&D which it has sub-contracted to someone else.

Qualifying expenditure on sub-contracted R&D is payments made by a company (the principal) for R&D contracted out by it to another person (the sub-contractor) that satisfy certain conditions. For expenditure incurred on or before 31 July 2008 the treatment of the expenditure and the relief available differed depending upon who the sub-contractor. There were two situations:

• sub-contractor a charity, university or scientific research organisation CIRD75525,

• sub-contractor not a charity, university or scientific research organisation CIRD75550.