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Readers' forum : Family partnership

06 February 2018
Issue: 4634 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

Treatment of loss relief under ITA 2007, s 72 on tax returns.

I have new clients a husband and wife in partnership together who started trading on 1 April 2016. I have prepared accounts to 31 December 2016 and there is a loss of £120 000 which they are sharing equally.

The accounts to 31 December 2017 are likely to show a small loss and provisionally I am working on the basis of a nil profit.

I am considering loss relief claims under ITA 2007 s 72 in effect relieving these losses against income arising in 2013-14.

In 2013-14 the husband’s income was £95 000 and his wife’s was £75 000  
most of which derived from a separate family partnership that ceased in 2014-15. My s 72 claims will be capped at £50 000 each. Their other income in 2016-17 is negligible.

I have two questions as follows.

  1. Do I obtain the relief...

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