cleavers said:
I'll ask again as I'm still curious as to what it means, if any of you financial guru's can tell me.
Well I am an armchair rag but doesn't look like anyone else is answering Cleavers, so I'll have a go and give you my take on it.
In their accounts Utd talk about the tax credit "primarily arising due to recognition of a previously unrecognised tax loss as a deferred tax asset.." Although I know next to nothing about Corporation Tax I know a little about Individual Tax Returns and from that it seems to me that Utd (or their accountants) have managed to get some or other expense in the previous tax year(s) classed as a taxable expense, rather than a non taxable expense. That would then allow them to have the earlier year(s) returns amended, reducing the tax payable for those years and giving rise to a tax credit. Presumably Utd would then have either received a tax rebate or carried the tax credit (or tax relief) into their 11/12 tax return to use against their income then.
I'm no accountant so may be way off with this (apologies if so) but, like I said, I am familiar with the Individual Tax Return process and that's how it works there..