Client Story
How we claimed £19,600 in R&D tax credits for a Harlow life-sciences company
Client R runs a life-sciences and diagnostics company in Harlow's science cluster, set up as a Ltd company, carrying out genuine scientific research and product development. They were aware R&D credits existed but had never claimed, unsure whether their work qualified or how to evidence it.
We assessed the work against the R&D definition, the company was resolving genuine scientific and technical uncertainty in its diagnostics development, which clearly qualified. We identified the qualifying costs (scientific staff salaries, consumables and materials used in the research, software, a proportion of overheads), wrote the technical narrative, and submitted the claim under the merged R&D scheme with the enhanced support for R&D-intensive SMEs.
Total outcome: £19,600 of R&D tax relief claimed, providing significant cash benefit for an R&D-intensive company, plus a repeatable process and proper cost-tracking to capture the qualifying work each year going forward.