R&D Tax Relief

This guide explains the purpose of R&D tax relief, how it can support your work, eligibility criteria, changes to the scheme and compliance.

Driving Innovation

Supporting Innovation and Business Growth

Since 2000, the government has supported businesses investing in innovation through Research & Development (R&D) tax relief. This forward-looking tax incentive encourages investment in activities that can potentially lead to future improvements. R&D tax relief can significantly impact your business growth, providing financial support to turn ideas into commercial success.

The R&D tax relief scheme aims to enhance the UK’s competitive advantage by applying new or improved knowledge and capabilities in science and technology to commercial endeavours. The focus is on funding projects that seek growth in scientific or technological know-how rather than commercial outcomes. Projects can qualify for tax relief even if they fail, as success is not a requirement.

According to HMRC there was an estimated 11% increase in R&D relief in the tax year 2021-22 in comparison to the previous tax year.

Our Expertise

How R&D Tax Relief Supports Your Work

InnoFund’s team of PhD’s, IP specialists and innovation enthusiasts can help you reinvest funds to further innovate or develop projects in a tax efficient way.

InnoFund understands all stages of the IP and R&D lifecycle, clients that partner with InnoFund get the added value of being able identify, crystalise and exploit their IP with benefits that go beyond a normal R&D Tax advisor relationship.

Cash received from R&D can be reinvested into:

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    Further development projects
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    Hiring more staff
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    Training
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    Capital Equipment
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    Expanding your premises

Comparison Table

R&D TAX RELIEF RATES

Our Expertise

We identify commonly overlooked opportunities

We realize that running your business is an all-consuming activity and the last thing you need is to be burdened by additional bureaucracy. We can maximize your benefit with full HMRC compliance whilst claiming the optimal amount of tax relief.

R&D Tax Credits

Get up to 33% of your expenditure as a cash benefit and/or tax reduction.

HMRC dispute resolution & Tax compliance

Having difficulties with HMRC? See if our tax compliance team can help

IP Search & Patent Box

See if you can patent your work to protect your IP and reduce your tax.

Property Taxes benefits.

Purchasing assets, renovating or remediating? We can reduce your tax liability.

Our Expertise

Compliance & Dispute Resolution

Our Head of Consulting Simba is arguably the most qualified UK R&D Tax compliance expert having worked on the most HMRC R&D Tax enquiries in the UK by volume. His knowledge compliments that of our team of ex-HMRC inspectors, academics and tax lawyers to ensure InnoFund client’s claim with full compliance.
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    Supervised by ICAEW for AML purposes
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    PII inline with ICAEW regulations
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    Bound by ICAEW Code of Ethics
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    Work to Professional conduct in relation to taxation (PCRT)
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    Accredited mediator (CEDR) for Tax disputes

Testimonials

Listen to some clients that partner with us

If you wish to talk to a client in your industry please do not hesitate to ask, 70% of our business is referral based.

InnoFund’s insight into the market has been valuable in serving our clients across all sectors. Not only do they understand the nuances within R&D Tax Credits but they are great at spotting other funding opportunities for our clients. Their smaller team is much more personable than some of the large corporates we’ve partnered with and they really do go that extra mile to satisfy our customers. I wouldn’t hesitate to refer their services to anyone in my network

Accountancy London Partner

Adam was referred by one of our sub-contractors and came highly recommended. We previously did an R&D Tax claim with our accountant so we weren’t new to the process. InnoFund were quick to highlight other activities and opportunities our accountant overlooked, specifically new projects and cost centres we thought were outside the scope of R&D. Simply put they changed our understanding of what R&D is. Additionally they were able to submit claims for three other companies in the group. The result was a net benefit of 8x that of our previous one. This helped massively after Covid-19 and R&D Relief is now a priority business strategy. InnoFund continues to add value by streamlining future claims through a real-time R&D capture process.

Construction Firm Lancashire Commercial Director

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