Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

Relief for R&D expenditure on data and cloud computing: consequential amendmentsU.K.

6In Part 13 (additional relief for expenditure on R&D)—

(a)in Chapter 2 (relief for SMEs: cost of R&D incurred by SME), in section 1052 (qualifying expenditure on in-house direct R&D), in subsection (2)(b), after “software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”;

(b)in Chapter 9 (supplementary), in section 1134 (qualifying element of sub-contractor payment: connected persons), in subsection (3)(c), after “software” insert “, data licences, cloud computing services”.