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Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

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Relief for R&D expenditure on data and cloud computing

3(1)Chapter 9 of Part 13 of CTA 2009 (additional relief for expenditure on R&D: supplementary) is amended as follows.

(2)In the italic heading before section 1125 (“software or consumable items”), after “Software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”.

(3)In that section—

(a)in the heading, after “Software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”;

(b)in subsection (1)—

(i)in the words before paragraph (a), for “or consumable items means expenditure on” substitute “, data licences, cloud computing services or consumable items means an amount paid by the company in respect of”;

(ii)omit the “or” at the end of that paragraph;

(iii)after that paragraph insert—

(aa)data licences,

(ab)cloud computing services, or;

(c)after subsection (1) insert—

(1A)For the purposes of subsection (1)(aa) a data licence is a licence to access and use a collection of digital data.

(1B)For the purposes of subsection (1)(ab) cloud computing services include the provision of access to, and maintenance of, remote—

(a)data storage and hardware facilities;

(b)operating systems and software platforms.

(4)In section 1126 (software or consumable items: attributable expenditure)—

(a)in the heading, after “Software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”;

(b)in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6), in each place it appears, after “software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”.

(5)After section 1126 insert—

1126ZAAttributable expenditure: special rules for data and cloud computing

(1)Expenditure on data licences or cloud computing services is not to be treated as attributable to relevant research and development if, in connection with the grant of a licence or the provision of a service, a relevant person obtains—

(a)a right to sell data in respect of which the licence is granted or the service is provided (as the case may be);

(b)a right to publish, share or otherwise communicate data in respect of which the licence is granted or the service is provided (as the case may be) to a third party, other than for the purposes of communications reasonably necessary for, or incidental to, the purposes of the relevant research and development.

(2)Expenditure on data licences or cloud computing services is not to be treated as attributable to relevant research and development so far as it is attributable to a qualifying indirect activity.

(3)In this section—

  • qualifying indirect activity” means an activity mentioned in paragraph 31 of the Guidelines on the Meaning of Research and Development for Tax Purposes issued on 7 March 2023 and as amended from time to time;

  • relevant person” has the meaning given in section 1126A(10).

(6)In section 1126A (attributable expenditure: special rules), in the heading, after “special rules” insert “for consumable items”.

(7)In section 1126B (attributable expenditure: further provision)—

(a)in subsection (1)—

(i)after “expenditure on” insert “data licences, cloud computing services or”;

(ii)after “1126” insert “, 1126ZA”;

(b)in subsection (2)—

(i)in paragraph (a), after “expenditure on” insert “data licences, cloud computing services or”;

(ii)in paragraph (b), after “in which” insert “data licences, cloud computing services or”;

(c)in subsection (4), after paragraph (a) insert—

(aa)section 1126ZA;.

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