HMRC can look after your Research & Development claim freeing you to run your company
HMRC has launched a new scheme to help first time small company claimants of Research & Development (R&D) tax relief.
Advance Assurance links your company to HMRC specialists to help you understand and comply with the R&D tax relief conditions. HMRC will allow a claim without further enquiry for your first 3 accounting periods, so you can concentrate on running your company rather than focussing on your R&D claim. Advance Assurance also gives proof that your company will get R&D tax relief, which may help secure funding.
You can apply for Advance Assurance whether your company is planning to carry out R&D, or has already carried it out. However your company must not have claimed R&D tax relief before, its annual turnover must be £2 million or less and it must employ fewer than 50 people.
If your company is new and doesn’t have a turnover figure, it can still apply, as long as it hasn’t claimed R&D tax relief before.
