Brightcel automatically calculates and immediately incorporates into the accounts:-
Inheritance Tax
- Apportionment between instalment and non-instalment option property
- Residence Nil Rate Band and Transferable Residence Nil Rate Band, including downsizing relief.
- APR and BPR - allowing for excepted assets
- Grossing up - on legacies and on residue (Benham or Ratcliffe bases)
- Interaction - where residue partially exempt includes assets qualifying for e.g. BPR/APR
- Tax payable by legatees on legacies subject to tax
- Reduced rate where 10% goes to charity - and calculates and shows threshold amount for estate to qualify
- Interest calculations
Capital Gains Tax
- Year by year
- On all assets
- At the rate in force at the point of sale (automatically calculated)
- Allowing for personal allowance (automatically calculated)
- Ignoring Chattels below the Chattels exempt threshold
- Differentiating between residential and non-residential property
Income Tax
- Year by year
- At the rates applicable to each different source of income
- Accommodating tax already paid
All tax calculations can be overriden or adjusted to agree with HMRC's.