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Maria Kitt has been invited to join David Hardman (Chairman UK Science Park Association and Nicky Morgan MP) on 19 and 20 May. The Conference will catch up with a range of updates from the scientific and innovation community. Maria speaks upon the impact of ‘Brexit’ on innovative companies and the potential opportunities ahead. Register…(Read More)

UK R & D tax reliefs are now at an all time high. Coupled with the reductions in corporation tax rates, the UK’s innovators may never have ‘had it so good’. The last thing innovative companies and techpreneurs need now is a period of uncertainty following the onset of a ‘wrong’ Brexit decision, but…(Read More)

Sell out! Our book on the UK’s Research and Development tax reliefs (UK Research and Development Tax Reliefs’ – Bloomsbury Professional Press) has now sold out. Luckily Bloomsbury will be publishing our second edition shortly. This will include a full and up to date round up of the key 2015 and 2016 changes on UK…(Read More)

Invest in Surrey

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Spring begins with a look at some of the excellent support networks helping innovative companies advance world class technologies. We are excited to be working closely with ‘Invest in Surrey’ which focusses on the strong RD centres of excellence emerging in the UK. Key sectors in our area include the 5 G Centre here at…(Read More)

Although it seems like no time has passed since the last ‘Advance RD Assurance’ pilot was run by HMRC, The Gov.UK website will shortly publish details of the (second) ‘Advance assurance process’ for small companies wishing to claim RD for the first time. This is firmly aimed at SME’s with turnover below £2m…(Read More)

You may recall our January feature on our consultation with HM Treasury and HMRC to improve access for all Companies carrying out bona fide R & D to enhanced tax reliefs and tax credits. The outcome of the consultation will see an encouraging number of ‘next steps’, including greater publicity, advance assurances and greater certainty…(Read More)

2015 HMRC R & D Report

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HMRC published their 2015 R & D report today which shows an incredible uplift in the number of claims being filed validly to over 20,000, breaking the previous year’s similar record uplift by more than 5,000. The new high of 20,100 claims represents an ‘across the board’ uplift from a range of…(Read More)