Novelty vs Advancement
Throughout history advancements and novelties have played a pivotal role in pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and consequently improving our lives. Whether it was during the agricultural revolution12,000 years ago, the digital revolution w...
R&D vs Innovation
R&D plays a crucial role in advancing various academic and industrial fields. In essence, the definition of R&D is very broad where several activities and functions fall under the umbrella of R&D, this includes, scientific research, technology dev...
The R&D timeline vs project boundaries
To enable R&D professionals to be further educated on HMRC's guidance around R&D tax reliefs, Wilson Partners produced the Learn R&D series. We believe that spreading awareness of HMRC'S BEIS guidelines can help R&D professional sustain innovat...
What is R&D?
To enable R&D professionals to be further educated on HMRC's guidance around R&D tax reliefs, Wilson Partners produced the Learn R&D series. We believe that spreading awareness of HMRC'S BEIS guidelines can help R&D professional sustain innovat...
Accounting 101: What is leverage?
One of the terms often banded about in the corporate world and in the financial press is ‘leverage’. It can be the sort of terminology where you ‘kind of know’ what it means, but if you’re setting up a high growth business, it’s something you defi...
Meet the team in 90 seconds – Kieran Mistry
Kieran joined Wilson Partners in 2022 as a Trainee after graduating from his Accounting and Finance degree at the University of the West of England.
Annual R&D stats have been released by HMRC
The stats also highlight the number of SME’s claiming under RDEC for subcontracted or subsidised work and who will likely lose their claims under the proposed merged scheme. The legislation for the merged scheme as currently drafted follows the ex...
Latest Patent Box statistics released by HMRC
The latest statistics from HMRC show there has been a decrease in the number of companies making patent box claims with a total of 1,510 claimants in 2021 - 2022 compared to 1,610 claimants in 2020 -2021. Whilst the number of claimants has decrea...
Is it time to slow down the changes to R&D claims rules?
We support ATT’s proposals, particularly the need to slow the rate of change down for businesses. HMRC have recently shared that half of all R&D claims they received in the last month were submitted without the new additional information form (man...
Meet the team in 90 seconds – Sarah Clarke
Sarah brings a wealth of knowledge to our tax offering, specialising in Private Client advisory. She is popular with both clients and colleagues, and is quick to build a rapport with anyone she meets, which certainly helps when explaining complex ...
Meet the team in 90 seconds – James Feast
Meet James Fest, Audit and Accounts Trainee. Partial to a Nespresso coffee and a crucial part of the Audit team, James completes a range of audit work year-end accounts and assists clients with company secretarial work.
Meet the team in 90 seconds – Steve Lawrey
Meet Head of Tax Steve Lawrey, who leads his in helping clients with all their tax needs.