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R&D tax relief: How to protect businesses from poor advice

25 March 2021 / Jenny Tragner
Issue: 4785 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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To protect and to serve

Key points

  • 90% of businesses do not know the R&D tax credits market is largely unregulated.
  • Businesses are incorrectly advised that Covid-19 responses can qualify for R&D credits.
  • Incorrect advice affects the company claiming the tax credit and also indirectly the tax adviser.
  • A claim that HMRC has not challenged is not an accepted claim.
  • HMRC needs to refine its guidance so expectations are clear.

There has been something of a series of Taxation articles discussing the many problems which continue to dog research and development (R&D) tax relief. Herein lies the issue. Our industry has spent enough time discussing the issues at hand. The time has now come for action.

For businesses in the UK R&D tax relief is playing a vital role in recovery efforts. Many businesses have found that the pandemic itself has triggered R&D projects from developing new products to digital transformation....

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