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Valuation of trading stock and work in progress – updated HMRC guidance

07 Dec 2022

HMRC’s Business Income Manual has been updated (6 and 7 December 2022) in relation to its coverage of stock valuation. The changes are fairly extensive, and include (by way only of examples) the following:

  • valuation bases – net realisable value v estimated selling price less costs to complete (BIM 33115)
  • meaning of construction contracts (BIM 33025) (final sentence)
  • meaning of work in progress (BIM 33020) (final para added)
  • meaning of stock (BIM 33015) (second para amended)

Other changes are listed as follows:

  • Tax and accountancy: timing of income and expenditure: GAAP
  • Tax and accountancy: timing of income and expenditure
  • Tax and accountancy: Property, plant and equipment
  • Tax and accountancy: FRS15: renewals accounting
  • Tax and accountancy: Substance over form: taxation implications
  • Tax and accountancy: FRS5: Substance over form
  • Tax and accountancy: materiality: an accountancy concept
  • Tax and accountancy: events after the end of the reporting period
  • Tax and accountancy: concepts and pervasive principles
  • Tax and accountancy: GAAP
  • Tax and accountancy: meaning of ‘international accounting standards’
  • Tax and accountancy: meaning of ‘UK generally accepted accounting practice’

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/business-income-manual/updates

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