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R&D Tax Explained
Forget white coats and laboratories. R&D tax relief rewards businesses for resolving genuine technological or scientific uncertainty while improving a product, process, system, material or method — which happens on shop floors, building sites, kitchens and in code every single day.
What we do, start to finish
A free eligibility review and discovery meeting. Technical interviews with the people who did the work. Project identification and financial review. Qualifying-cost analysis. A full technical narrative and supporting evidence.
Everything HMRC requires, prepared and submitted properly. Support if HMRC ever asks a question, included. We work with first-time claimants and businesses with years of claim history alike — and we'll happily review a claim someone else has already prepared.
Three things worth knowing
Advance, Not Invention
You don't need to have invented something new to the world — just achieved a genuine advance for your business.
Ask the Technical Team
Your accountant might not have caught it — confirming what qualifies usually means talking directly to the people who did the technical work.
Entitled, Not Excessive
The goal isn't claiming as much as possible — it's claiming everything you're genuinely entitled to, evidenced properly.
The schemes we work with
For accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2024: the merged R&D Expenditure Credit (RDEC) scheme, and Enhanced R&D Intensive Support (ERIS) for qualifying loss-making, R&D-intensive SMEs. We also handle historic SME and RDEC claims where an earlier period is still within the statutory window.
Deadlines matter — as a general rule, for a period of account no longer than 18 months, a claim can usually be made or amended up to two years from the end of that period.