Autumn Budget 2025: Turning fiscal restraint into growth
Alex Hannaway
November 18, 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.
What the Autumn Budget 2025 Means for UK Innovation
Autumn Budget 2025 has already been labelled a “smorgasbord of misery.” The headlines are dominated by household pressures: £26bn in tax rises, frozen thresholds pulling millions into higher bands, tighter rules on salary sacrifice, and a cap on cash ISAs. But once you strip out the political noise and the OBR leak that defined the day, the picture for innovative companies is more measured. For businesses performing R&D, the headline is stability. The core R&D schemes remain unchanged. For the ...
R&D tax relief statistics 2025: claims fall 26% while innovation spend holds steady
Stuart Millar
September 30, 2025
Recent R&D tax relief scheme changes require understanding to ensure future claims are successful.
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EmpowerRD appoints Stuart Millar as Head of Tax
Alex Hannaway
June 25, 2025
London – 23rd June 2025: EmpowerRD, the technology firm helping UK businesses navigate the complexities of R&D tax credit claims, has appointed R&D tax leader
Meet the Experts: Yasmin Lakin, R&D Financial Consultant
Alex Hannaway
May 29, 2025
We sat down with Yasmin Lakin, one of EmpowerRD’s R&D Financial Consultants to learn more about her approach to claim reviews, what drew her to
Missed your R&D claim notification? HMRC offers a lifeline
Alex Hannaway
April 29, 2025
If you thought you’d lost out on claiming R&D tax credits because you’d missed the deadline for submitting the Claim Notification Form (CNF), some good
HMRC’s new guidance on subsidised and subcontracted R&D – What SMEs need to know
Alex Hannaway
April 10, 2025
On 27 February 2025, HMRC finally updated its guidance on subcontracted and subsidised R&D, addressing the long-standing confusion for SMEs claiming under the SME and
Spring Statement 2025: Key takeaways for innovative companies
Alex Hannaway
March 27, 2025
Delivered minutes after the OBR downgraded growth forecasts this year from 2% to 1%, yesterday’s Spring Statement was about restoring some economic credibility and getting
Mastering R&D tax audits: How to help clients navigate HMRC scrutiny
Alex Hannaway
March 12, 2025
Scrutiny of R&D tax credit claims has intensified recently, with HMRC reviewing 20% of all R&D claims in 2024, which is 5 times more than