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The government has announced the launch of Future Fund: Breakthrough, their new £375 million scheme. Read our brief guide to learn more about the fund and how you can apply. […]

Using the latest HMRC R&D statistics alongside data from the EmpowerRD claiming platform, we look at the claiming landscape for venture backed businesses in the UK.    

Many UK R&D tax credit claimants also claim innovation grants for the same projects. One of the most common sources of those grants is the EU’s Horizon grants framework. Since […]

What is R&D? Research and development is an activity that seeks to create new knowledge. Within a business context, R&D will aim to create a new product, process or service; […]

Rishi Sunak’s second Budget follows a year of unprecedented economic challenge as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. An investment-led recovery, with the government supporting the scale-up of the most […]

In November the Auditor General concluded his audit of HMRC. The resulting report has numerous recommendations across all aspects of HMRC’s service delivery, but it has particularly notable recommendations for […]