CCH Personal Tax 2025.1 Service Pack: Release Notes
Release Highlights
This release of Personal Tax is the annual compliance release. The following updated forms are included in this release:
This release of Personal Tax includes the following:
- Updated FTSE350 file
- Updated Exchange Rates
- Double Tax Treaty rates
Prerequisites
Installing CCH Personal Tax 2025.1 Service Pack
This release is installed using the Central Suite Installer. This ensures that all prerequisites are in place and that all the products for which you are licenced are installed in the correct sequence. Click here to learn about the Central Suite Installer.
Useful Information! Click here see the Release Notes for the full version of CCH Personal Tax 2025.1
Legislative and Compliance Updates
Updated FTSE350 File
The 2024/25 FTSE350 file is included in this release.
Average Exchange Rates
The average exchange rates file is produced from the official HMRC average exchange rates. The file is now included in this release.
Tip: Please be aware that from 2023/24, HMRC are producing exchange rates to 4 decimal places rather than 6 decimal places as in prior years.
Double Tax Treaty Rates
The 2025 and 2026 Double Tax Treaty Rates are included in this release. The following countries have been updated:
- San Marino (effective from 2024/25)
- Ecuador (effective 2025/26)
- Belarus (effective 2025/26)
- Russian Federation (effective 2025/26)
Specials and Exclusions
Exclusions
As documented in the 2025.100 release notes Exclusion 138 is no longer valid after 5 April 2024, it has therefore been end dated and no longer appears for 2025 returns.
Specials
HMRC has amended and introduced the following Specials for the SA100:
Special Number | Detail |
38 (Updated) |
SA108 - Page – CG3 – Box Numbers – CGT50 and CGT50. The maximum qualifying net gains which may benefit from Business Asset Disposals’ Relief is restricted to a lifetime limit of £1 million. This applies to qualifying disposals made on or after 11 March 2020 and to certain disposals made before 11 March 2020. There is validation on boxes CGT50 and CGT50.1 from 2020-21 to ensure that no entry can be made in those boxes that is greater than £1m. In the scenario where the customer claimed remittance basis in a previous year and the gain is taxed when it is remitted, the LL that would be applicable is determined by the LL in the earlier year. These cases are expected to be very rare but if they occur then the customer will be faced with an error message upon making an entry of more than £1m. Work around: The return can still be filed online by capping the amount of Business Asset Disposal’ Relief claimed in boxes CGT50 and CGT50.1 at £1m and then using box CGT51 to make an adjustment. E.g., a customer with £20,000 remitted gains over the LL and who would be due to pay Capital Gains at the 20% rate would require an adjustment at box CGT51 of minus £2,000 (£20,000 x (20% minus 10%). |
47 (Updated) |
SA108 - Page – CG1 and CG2 – Box Numbers - CGT21, CGT29 and CGT37Updated to include Crypto Assets Where the Real Time Transaction (RTT) service has been used to report and pay Capital Gains Tax on disposals of assets to be declared in any of the sections ‘Cryptoassets, Other property, assets and gains,’ ‘Listed shares and securities,’ or ‘Unlisted shares and securities,’ the gains or losses reported in the RTT boxes CGT13.7, CGT21, CGT29 or CGT37 should also be included within the total gains or losses boxes (CGT13.4 (CGT13.5 for losses), CGT17 (CGT19 for losses) CGT26 (CGT27 for losses) and CGT34 (CGT35 for losses) respectively). If the gains or losses have been overestimated their when using the RTT service and their actual gain or loss is less than what they need to enter in boxes CGT13.4, CGT13.5, CGT17, CGT19, CGT26, CGT27, CGT34 or CGT35 they may get a validation error. CGT13.7, CGT21, CGT29 or CGT37 cannot exceed Workaround: If a claim is made for Extra Statutory Concession A14 to apply to UK Dividends, the income is treated as retaining the character as if received directly rather than via an estate. It is possible to claim Double Taxation and other reliefs and the income should not be entered in TRU18/TRU18.1. It should be shown in the DT relief claim in HS304. (Non-residents – relief under double taxation agreements |
58 (New) |
SA103S and SA103F - Page – SES2/SEF3 – Box Numbers – FSE49/SSE23 when greater than £1.5m Where a customer has an accounting period that exceeds 547 days and calculates their Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) from their plant or machinery investments made in the capital allowance chargeable periods covered by that accounting period, the AIA threshold (and allowable claim) may exceed £1,500,000. This affects self-employed customers where for 2023/34 the validation for boxes FSE49 and SSE23 is set at £1.5m. An entry above will result in a validation failure and the return would be blocked from successful online submission. A customer wishing to claim over £1.5m AIA can still do so and successfully file online by capping the entries at boxes FSE49 and SSE23 to £1.5m and then entering the remaining balance of the AIA amount at either box FSE55 or SSE25 as appropriate, for other capital allowances. Workaround: In these circumstances enter £1.5m in box FSE4/ SSE23 and the excess in box FSE55/SSE25 · A note should be included in the Additional Information box of the online return and advise that the workaround has been used. |
NRCGT Information messages SA108 and SA905
For the year 2025 and onwards, we have amended the message that appears when an NRCGT transaction is entered and the NRCGT reference is blank. This is now a warning message as opposed to an error.
This means that an IRMark can be generated even if the reference is missing and it is still able to be filed online.
Any messages previously created as errors for 2025 or 2026 are updated after opening the tax return.
CCH iFirm integration
We have added the following task permissions to support the CCH iFirm suite of cloud products:
MTDfIT
A new task permission has been created to allow firms to select which employees can access MTDfIT
Note! By default this permission is turned off on upgrade and needs to be activated if required.
CCH iFirm Personal Tax
A new task permission has been created to allow firms to select which employees can access CCH iFirm Personal Tax
Note! By default this permission is turned off on upgrade and needs to be activated if required.
Please note that in both cases if the task permissions are not set, the icons are inactive in the ribbon bar, and appear greyed out, e.g
Quality improvements
The following quality improvements are addressed in this release:
ITS 56443 - SA108/SA905 Residential property gain not updating the loss grid
Customers have previously reported that any CGT gain for a residential property disposal was not appearing in the Income tax losses grid screen to allow set off of trading losses against the gain. This affects both individuals and trusts.
This also impacts any gain with Entrepreneur's relief.
ITS 68249 - Q20 Tick not appearing on Form SA900
Customers had reported that for 2025 tax returns the tick in box 20 was not appearing on the Tax Return, despite being ticked in the data entry screen. The entry was also missing from the XML submission for online filing.
ITS 68265 - The rounding for 'Income tax due calculated including transition profit' is incorrect
Customers have reported that for 2025 the Tax due on transition profit exceeds the expected value by as much as 80p. This is because we were rounding down the Income tax due calculated including transition profit to 0dp rather than 2dp.