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TaxCalc 2008 Release Notes

Version 8.18.00 (Current - released 29th Nov 2011)

The following issue has been addressed:

SA submissions

  • The TaxCalc Security Certificate has been updated following recent HMRC changes.

Version 8.16.01 (released 19th Nov 2009)

The following issues have been addressed:

CT600 - Corporation Tax - issue with Computations including Annual Investment Allowance twice on files created prior to version 8.16.00

  • Issue preventing online filing of SA100 Individual return with multiple Life Insurance Gains under certain circumstances
  • Updated Help and New Search Feature added to 'F1' Help.

Version 8.16.00 (released 11th Nov)

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Bug introduced in 8.14.00 where last number of UTR was missing when printing PDF

Version 8.14.00 (released 11th Nov)

The following issues have been added/enhanced:

  • CT600 - Corporation Tax - support for online filing of FY08 returns
  • CT600 - Corporation Tax - New 2008 Capital allowance rules added to forms and computations
  • CT600 - Corporation Tax - New 2008 forms added
  • Support for filing of multiple properties in Foreign Land & Property pages (SA106)
  • SimpleStep screens added to complete SA106 Foreign Land & Property pages and help added

Version 8.10.02

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Text changes for Balancing Charges and Company Car wizard to avoid confusion
  • Disallowable expenses box was incorrectly appearing in SimplStep self employment Short form
  • Capital Gains Tax page routing altered in HMRC Forms mode to make it clear to users which method to choose
  • Bank interest and other fields were rounding to '0' when values less than one pound were entered. This resulted in failed online submission.
  • MCS surplus allowance not always correctly calculated resulting in failed online submission
  • Tax Payment/Repayment summary was not exporting to Word/Excel
  • Seafarers earnings deduction explanatory text appearing when not applicable, if the 'work abroud' wizard was used
  • Dates incorrect on SA900 Trust and Estate printout
  • SA900 Trust and Estate Q8 tickboxes not always letting user select their desired combination
  • Data from Box 35 was not appearing in CT600 computations

Version 8.10.01

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Full Self Employment balancing charges in SimpleStep, the wording was unclear and an extra field has been added to link into the correct boxes
  • SimpleStep Agent Nominee Adress was not populating from 'Practice Details' (Professional Users)
  • CT600 - MRR not always calculating correctly when Franked Investment Income included

Version 8.10.00

The following issues have been addressed:

  • SA100 Capital Gains in SimpleStep was not calculating at all when purchase price was '£0'
  • SA100 Company Car wizard was rounding down the CO2 figure incorrectly in some circumstances
  • Employed Company Director with NO income - the SimpleStep sreen was a little unclear on which fields to tick
  • CT600 MRR fraction for 2008 Financial Year was giving incorrect rate

Version 8.08.04

The following new features have been added:

  • TaxCalc Summary
  • SA800 Property 10% wear and tear wizard added
  • New Wizard Land and Property: 'Premiums for grant of lease'
  • New Wizard Land and Property: 'Retirement Annuity Contracts'
  • New tax office addresses added

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Fixed export of R40 to Excel
  • Maximum length validaion was incorrect on a few fields
  • CT600 film/research tax credits not populating the correct field
  • CWF1 Changes - typos corrected and HMRC logo has been removed as required
  • Non Resident employment abroad and non-earning Directors - Online filing was not working correctly as this was still being expected as attached pages.
  • Printed Tick boxes now include 'X' character instead if 'Y'. This is not compulsory but caused some confusion.
  • Capital Gains - online filing was failing where TaxCalc determined that pages were not needed, becuase some data was still being submitted
  • Capital Gains - changes to SimpleStep and Forms Mode screens to make the process clearer
  • Lock return - process explained more clearly and warnings added to let user know how to unlock the return again
  • Minor text corrections throughout due to re-released and amended HMRC forms
  • Program was not automatically allocating losses brought forward against current year profits (Self Employment and Partnership)
  • Warning added to explain HMRC issue with Class4 Deferment (in rare circumstances)
  • Labelling and explanation of Original/Amended return amended as was not clear to all users
  • Pension Income now has separate place in SimpleStep navigation menu (no longer in 'Your Work' section)
  • Some fileds were not rounding
  • Error with automatic attachment of PDF's causing 'IRMark incorrect' error when filing online
  • Default printing options amended
  • Validation of short form self employment expenses
  • Batch Filing changes making results page clearer. Some bugs fixed with Batch results routing (Professional Users)
  • Interest data not always correctly exporting to Client Questionnaire (Professional Users)
  • A few labels on the Data Entered report were vague or incorrect (Professional Users)
  • Archived files could not be retreived easily and archived items could not be searched - extra option now added in Quich Search drop-down (Professional Users)
  • Use Agent Data for Bank Details was not appearing on Professional SimpleStep screen (Professional Users)

Version 8.08.03

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Where Partnership (SA104) losses were brought forward and there were no losses in the year, the submission was failing.
  • Where Capital Gains data entered did not meet HMRC trigger points the information was (correctly) not included but online filing failed.
  • SA800 Partnership with Land & Property income. The L & P pages were not being included in the submission although income was included on the Statement pages. If you have filed such a return we would recommend filing an amended return to correct this.

Version 8.08.00

The following new features have been added:

  • The new (Final) HMRC forms have very recently been released and are now included for ALL types of return

The following issues have been addressed:

  • Where no payments on account were due for 2008-09, returns could not be filed online. This has now been resolved.
  • Tax Due screen was not always displaying payments on account where repayment was due. This has been corrected.
  • When printing the new SA100 return, tickboxes with an entry of ‘Y’ will now have ‘X’ entered (either would be acceptable to HMRC but it now agrees with the wording on the pages themselves, to avoid confusion)
  • Online 64-8 recognition has been received from HMRC
  • CT600 Computation can now be exported to word / excel
  • Not all areas were available in the LITE version SimpleStep mode that should have been. This has now been corrected.
  • Small typos and wording corrections