R&D tax self-assessment 

Find out if your business could be eligible for R&D tax relief.   

Submit your answers to the following six questions and our team will let you know if your business is likely to qualify and under which regime you may be eligible to claim.  

1. Has your company sought to make any improvements to any product, process, service or material?
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2. Did the improvement involve an advance in science or technology?
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For example, an advance in science or technology in this context could be one which seeks to:

a. extend overall knowledge or capability in a field of science or technology; or

b. create a process, material, device, product or service which incorporates or represents an increase in overall knowledge or capability in a field of science or technology; or

c. make an appreciable improvement to an existing process, material, device, product or service through scientific or technological changes; or

d. use science or technology to duplicate the effect of an existing process, material, device, product or service in a new or appreciably improved way (e.g. a product that has exactly the same performance characteristic as existing models, but is built in a fundamentally different manner).

3. Did the work to improve your product, process, or service involve activities that were scientifically or technologically uncertain?
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4. Does your company, together with any connected companies, employ over 500 employees?
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5. Does your company, together with any connected companies, have a turnover that exceeds 100m euros?
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6. Does your company, together with any connected companies, have a total balance sheet (i.e. gross assets) in excess of €86m?
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