{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2009/section-1179CA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2009/section-1179CA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/4",
  "legislation_title": "Corporation Tax Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2009",
  "path": "section/1179CA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1179CA",
  "heading": "Amount of expenditure credit",
  "text": "(1) The amount of the expenditure credit to which a qualifying company is entitled for an accounting period is determined as follows.\nStep 1\nAscertain the total of the company’s relevant global expenditure (see subsection (2)) for all accounting periods up to and including the present one.\nStep 2\nDeduct from that total any expenditure that is not UK expenditure (see section 1179AB).\nStep 3\nIf the amount remaining after step 2 exceeds 80% of the total ascertained at step 1, deduct the amount of the excess.\nThe remaining amount is the company’s “qualifying expenditure to date”.\nStep 4\nDeduct from the company’s qualifying expenditure to date the amount (if any) that was the company’s qualifying expenditure to date in the accounting period for which it was last entitled to, and claimed, an expenditure credit in respect of the qualifying production.\nThe remaining amount is the company’s “qualifying expenditure for the period”.\nStep 5\nThe amount of the credit to which the company is entitled is the relevant percentage of the company’s qualifying expenditure for the period.\nThe relevant percentage is determined by—\n(a)section 1179DV, in the case of a film or television programme;\n(b)section 1179FN, in the case of a video game.\n(2) Expenditure is “relevant global expenditure” for an accounting period if—\n(a) it is brought into account under section 1179BB in calculating the profits of the separate production trade for that period, and\n(b) it counts as relevant production expenditure in relation to the qualifying production under—\n(i) section 1179DR, in the case of a film or television programme;\n(ii) section 1179FJ, in the case of a video game.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 14A inserted (22.2.2024) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 2 para. 1 (with Sch. 2 paras. 16(1), 17-25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1179CA(1) modified (with effect in accordance with s. 32(4) of the amending Act) by 2009 c. 4, Sch. 2 para. 24A (as inserted by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 32(2)(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/4/section/1179CA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:19.560467+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}