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View Clair's profileR&D Tax Relief is a generous incentive to encourage innovation within the UK, and to attract investment from overseas
The UK Government’s Research and Development (R&D) Tax Relief is a way of giving companies involved in innovation tax relief on the costs involved. The system also helps make the UK attractive to overseas businesses.
There are two distinct schemes, the SME (small and medium enterprises) scheme and the Large Company scheme. We can advise you on the differences and which scheme is relevant to your business.
R&D Tax Relief is under utilised and there are many misconceptions; that it is only applicable for traditional ‘science’ led sectors; that it’s too complex and time consuming; and that it’s only for a narrow range of R&D activities.
Our team’s strength is in their knowledge of the tax relief, the requirements of submitting a claim and their tenacity in managing the claim proces from start to a successful outcome.
Leaving your R&D claim in our capable hands makes the whole process hassle free and lets you focus on growing your business. We have experience of the process, the information that is required for a claim and as accountants we understand the numbers. We know that no two businesses are the same, and so we adapt our approach to match your situation.
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Contact us for specialist R&D advice.
Clair provides clients across the firm with advice and assistance in respect of R&D tax credits claims and oversees a team of specialists providing R&D tax relief services. This is an area of tax law that has seen a lot of change over the last couple of years and clients have needed careful guidance to ensure compliance and maximising their claim returns.
Clair helps clients to ensure their claims are robust, well-structured and demonstrate all the required criteria for eligibility. As HMRC have increased the number of enquiries in this area recently to target fraud Clair also helps clients defend the legitimacy of their claims.
David is an International Corporate Tax specialist. He has over 30 years’ experience in providing commercially focused tax advice and support to a wide range of clients, from technology start-ups to large inward investing corporates.
A qualified Chartered Accountant, David went on to qualify as a Chartered Tax Adviser and prior to joining Alliotts as a partner in 2014 he held the position of tax partner in Grant Thornton and subsequently in PwC.
David focuses on providing strategic tax advice to entrepreneurs and privately owned businesses. By investing time in understanding clients and their businesses he is able to provide advice which is practical and appropriate to clients’ circumstances in order to keep taxes to a sensible minimum. He advises on a wide range of taxes including transaction planning, UK outbound and inbound structuring, corporate tax, technology tax reliefs, investor and shareholder planning, capital gains tax and LLPs. David advises both UK and overseas business owners on international tax planning.
David also specialises in advising individuals and businesses in the media sector on UK film tax credits, video games tax reliefs and other creative sector tax incentives. He also advises on EIS and SEIS.
Luke is a partner within our Corporate Finance and Outsourced Business Services teams.
Luke’s approach is to invest time in understanding the client’s objectives and uses his expertise and experience to help the client achieve this.
Luke particularly enjoys working with growing businesses and has experience in dealing with clients of a range of sizes, from large private equity firms to startups.
Luke is also honoured to have been recognised in the 2021 Accountancy Age ’35 under 35′ awards, which showcases the rising talent in the industry who are making great contributions to both their firms and field.