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Lesson 300 A4dA4c

CT deductions and overseas income and illustration

In this lesson, you'll learn how to calculate corporation tax on overseas income and apply the crucial offset rules that maximise your tax relief. You'll discover why the order of offset matters when a company has multiple income sources, and how to structure deductions strategically to reduce the overall tax burden.

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  1. 0:00 Corporation tax deductions and overseas income
  2. 0:29 Offsetting strategy for overseas income
  3. 1:03 Worked example: Flower PLC calculation
  4. 2:27 Double taxation relief application
  5. 3:00 Final corporation tax payable

About this lesson

Using a worked example with overseas interest and rental income, you'll see how to gross up foreign withholding taxes, apply qualifying charitable donations in the most beneficial sequence, and calculate double taxation relief correctly. This technique is essential for corporation tax calculations in TX and ATX, where overseas income scenarios appear regularly in both objective tests and case studies.

Duration: 3m

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