empowering businesses growth and innovation
Our Services
Empowering businesses growth & innovation
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We provide high standard professional assistance between businesses and the HMRC R&D Department for the duration of complex programmes and projects. To date, HMRC has enabled over £2bn in 2018 in R&D tax credits allowing companies to grow and achieve their goals.
Our team includes R&D technical specialists, R&D Consultants and all the necessary administration to secure R&D claims so your company can move forward in growth and success. We work with your finance teams and qualified accountants to capture qualifying expenditures that the UK government will recognise as a legitimate R&D project worthy of tax relief.
Dedicated case management
No upfront fees
End to end services
Our process
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Free assessment
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Before making any sort of commitment, we offer free assessments to any companies who are unsure about their eligibility or qualifying R&D expenditure. This entails a telephone or video conversation where we get to know a bit about what your company does and the kind of costs you can get money back on if you were to make a claim.
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For anyone who has not previously made a claim, we can explain the relief in more detail with information relevant to you.
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For companies who have claimed before, we can use this assessment to explore whether the claims you have made in the past have been fully maximised and all your qualifying expenditure has been identified.
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If your company is not quite yet ready to make a claim, whether it is because you are in the early stages or have not yet spent any money on R&D, you can still get in contact with us to talk through the process and receive direction on the best way to spend your money to maximise your claim from HMRC when you do make a claim in the future.
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Writing your report
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At this stage, if you decide that you are happy to go ahead and make a claim with us, we move onto writing a report/narrative for your company. This includes articulating the R&D activities in your company's projects, the advance that was sought, and identifying and justifying all qualifying costs.
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Filing the report with HMRC
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Once the report is complete, we file the claim on your behalf. This means that all liability and responsibility for the contents of that report belong to us, reducing risk to you. We also have a £1m PI Insurance in place, for added security.
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Dealing with HMRC enquiries
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Rarely, HMRC may decide to make enquiries about the reports that are filed. These can be as minor as clarifications or as serious as full investigations for misclaiming. In any case, these will all be directed to us. On the rare occasion they do come up, we have the professional experience to resolve these.
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Receiving your tax rebate
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Once a claim has been processed and approved, you will receive your benefit from HMRC.
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After services
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We are able to maximise claims because we have a fully comprehensive understanding and extensive experience of R&D tax credit legislation. Even after your claim is finished, we can continue to support you by providing guidance that will help map out the optimum way to spend and record your money in future R&D projects, in such a way that your future claims will allow you to account for all costs and optimise your claim value.
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For example, instead of putting any travel expenses for the employees involved in your R&D project under company expenses, including it as part of the employee expenses allows you to claim for those also under the legislation.
The perks
Time
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Our process only requires an average of 3.5 hours of your time, so you can carry on running your business while we handle the claim.
6 year security
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For every report we write for your claim, we retain ownership and are solely liable. This means that we are responsible to deal with any HMRC enquiries, reducing the risk to you for
the next six years
Experts at your
fingertips
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As your specialists, we will continuously support you with in-depth and up-to-date knowledge on the R&D tax legislation - you can consider us as your
external R&D tax team.
The fine print, in bold
Our fees
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We work on a contingency basis, meaning a fee is applicable only at the end of our service once you realise a benefit from HMRC. In the (unlikely) event a claim is unsuccessful, no fee would be payable.
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We do not charge admin fees, filing fees or termination of contract fees. There are no hidden costs, and an invoice is raised only after you receive a benefit.
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The fee is computed as a percentage of your benefit value, at the industry average of 25%. However, our pricing is dynamic and can change from case to case in particular circumstances.
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We advise getting in contact to discuss this. We are committed to providing competitive pricing for our clients.
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You are also subject to VAT charges.
Contract
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When you decide to work with us, like many R&D specialist companies, we provide a contract to sign us on for five financial years, two previous and three moving forward.
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If in any circumstances the duration is inconvenient for you, please get in contact with us to discuss this and reach an arrangement that is beneficial for you.
Our mission
Empowering businesses growth and innovation
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Novus Tax was started to support companies who spend money towards innovation. Businesses work hard daily to look for solutions, and every solution, through research and development, stimulates the UK economy for a better today and tomorrow.
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Our mission is to raise awareness of the schemes that more than 90% of eligible SMEs are missing out on. Whilst the number of cases are steadily rising, it is not enough as companies are either unaware of their eligibility or simply don't know how to claim.
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We want to break away from the misconception that R&D is constituted by 'cutting-edge'. 'white coat' and 'revolutionary advancement', and instead tell it how it really is - the little everyday attempts at improving products, processes and services.
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Our curious investigative nature when it comes to looking at your company has accounted to a combined professional experience of over 10 years winning and maximising R&D claims across a number of industries, so we can empower businesses' growth and innovation.
Our reviews
Extremely helpful, Novus Tax took care of the whole process from initial discussions through to receiving funds. I would highly recommend looking into how your business might qualify for R&D and if you do go with Novus Tax.
Al Brenninkmeijer
I was previously working with another R&D tax consulting company who for two years were convinced that there was no R&D tax claim to be made. When Novus Tax got in touch, they were able to identify qualifying expenditure that was missed. A very amiable and yet efficient company. They produced the claim to HMRC which gave me a significant R&D tax rebate. I would recommend having a conversation with Novus to ensure any ongoing or future claims include all qualifying expenses to receive the best rebate.
Peter Puttock