Truth Software Release Notes 2020

Details of changes to our back office and Cashflow Modelling software

Buy-To-Let income tax relief & improvements to Bond Gain calculations (18/05/2020)

Buy-To-Let income tax relief

Profits, Allowable Expenses & Finance Cost Relief are now calculated automatically for Rental Properties.

The taxable profits and allowable expenses now appear on the Income Statement as shown here:-

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With any Finance Cost Relief deducted from the Income Tax calculation:

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Changes to the Property item:

  • On the Details tab, you can now select a linked mortgage. This will do two things:
    • Calculate and apply any Finance Costs from the mortgage if it’s a rental property
    • Automatically redeem an outstanding mortgage if the property is sold.
  • Any Personal Expenses now show a combined total.
  • A new table added on the Rent Received tab. Here we calculate and summarise any Rent Received, Allowable Expenses, Property Profits and Finance Costs.  Allowable Expenses can be amended within the table for any projected spending difference.  Double-clicking the Finance Costs will open the linked Mortgage item.

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Changes to Top-Slicing Relief

Following the Marina Silver vs HMRC case, the new ruling from 11th March 2020 has been applied. The individual’s Personal Allowance is now calculated from other taxable income and just the relevant slice.

Budget Update, Contact History improvements, & Small Pots (06/04/2020)

Budget Update

We’ve updated all rates and allowances for the UK and SRIT in line with Government guidance, including:

  • Changes to tapering for Annual Allowance
  • Changes to Lifetime Allowance
  • Changes to the Residence Nil Rate Band
  • Changes to base tables for annuity rate calculations
  • Changes to company car benefit calculations, including addition of electric car ranges and linking to the VCA database

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Income tax calculation for 2020/21 using Scottish Rates of Income Tax (SRIT)

Contact History improvements

We’ve made several quality-of-life improvements to assist with scanning to Contact History.  This will allow users who experience scanning issues to bulk-upload scanned documents to Contact History from external scanning software.

 

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Small Pension Pots

We’ve added a facility to allow pension benefits to be taken as ‘small pension pots’ on the ‘Crystallisations’ section.    Simply tick the boxes shown below and the transaction will no longer affect the LTA or trigger the MPAA.  We’re leaving it to you to decide what can/can’t be a small pot.  However, we’ve limited this to no more than 3 transactions with a value of £10,000 or less.

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Maintenance Update & Irish Budget changes (01/01/2020)

Irish Budget changes

We’ve updated all rates and allowances in line with Government guidance, including reduction to DIRT rate to 33%.