Read time: 3 minutes Rishi Sunak’s 2022 spring statement promised to reform the UK's R&D tax credits to be more generous to businesses. Which sounds like great news for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). But how does the government plan on doing this and how will it benefit your business ? Changes in R&D tax [...]
Companies who followed HMRC's guidance on staff costs may have claimed less R&D tax relief than they were entitled to. In the past few years, HMRC has issued some conflicting guidance on what you can include as an eligible staff cost in your R&D claim. In October 2014, HMRC issued a note which narrowed the [...]
The latest figures from HMRC shows that only 0.3% of SMEs claimed R&D Tax Relief in 2016. That's 17,135 out of the 5.4 million SMEs based in the UK, up from 15,955 the previous year. These firms could be missing out on hundreds of thousands of pounds that they are entitled to claim which they [...]
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