EmpowerRD’s 2025 insights: The future of innovation and R&D tax credits
Alex Hannaway
January 15, 2025
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Insights and ideas to enrich your innovation, navigate the complex funding landscape, and enhance the quality of your R&D tax credit claims.
From chaos to clarity: Building a robust R&D recordkeeping system
This article is the first in a series designed to help you optimise your R&D tax credit claim in 2025. Whether you’ve just completed your year-end or are approaching it soon, now is the perfect time to get your recordkeeping in order. For startups and small businesses, especially in tech, R&D can feel overwhelming. With teams juggling multiple projects, R&D tax relief often gets overlooked. In the rush to innovate, record-keeping can slip through the cracks, an oversight that can ...
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Alex Hannaway
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Last week, HMRC published its Approach to Research and Development Tax Relief report on the same day as the Autumn Budget 2024. It has some
The Impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on Innovative Companies and R&D
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October 31, 2024
Yesterday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first Autumn Budget since returning to power, addressing the UK’s £22 billion fiscal shortfall with a balanced approach of
Autumn Budget 2024: Key tax predictions for innovative companies and startups
Alex Hannaway
October 11, 2024
The news surrounding the £22bn “black hole” in the public finances has been impossible to avoid over the past few months, and it’s this shortfall,
Meet the experts: Dr Matthew Rix, BSc (Hons), MRes, PhD, R&D Tax Consultant and Technical Report Writer
Alex Hannaway
October 3, 2024
Welcome to our new “Meet the Experts” series, where we introduce the R&D experts at EmpowerRD who assist 1,000s of innovative companies to submit compliant
R&D tax credit statistics 2024: Navigating compliance and new realities
Alex Hannaway
September 27, 2024
The R&D tax relief landscape has undergone significant reforms recently, as evidenced by HMRC’s latest 2022-23 tax year statistics. For the first time since the
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