R&D Tax Credits
Compliant preparation and submission that maximises the value of your claim while protecting your position with HMRC.
Explore the service →R&D tax relief · specialists since 2019
Funding for innovators.
We identify, document and defend R&D tax relief claims for technically complex projects — from the British Superbike paddock to quantum laboratories.
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250+ Claims prepared & submitted
2019 Exclusively R&D since
06 Specialist sectors
What we do
Three services. One specialism.
No general practice, no bolt-on advisory. R&D incentives are all we do — which is why we can stand behind every claim we prepare.
HMRC Enquiry Support
Dedicated support through compliance checks — preserving claim value and steering the enquiry to a positive resolution.
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Success stories
Success stories.
Real projects, real outcomes — including the claims we’ve taken through HMRC enquiries.
Insights
The latest on R&D relief.
Rule changes, HMRC practice and plain-English guides, written by the people who prepare the claims.
4 November 2026 The claim notification form is being removed. Not yet, and not for everyone. The government announced in the Budget on 28 October 2026 that it will remove the R&D claim notification form for claims made on or after 1 April 2027. The Finance Bill 2026-27 will legislate the change, and it is not yet law. 
2 November 2026 How to Build an Internal R&D Documentation Habit That Makes Claims Easier Engineers focus on solving the problem in front of them, not on writing the story of what happened. Most work evidence these days is locked in various email chains. When we start asking what happened, we tend to get a sigh and the response, ‘I’ll have to look through my emails for that data’.
26 October 2026 Is the R&D Tax Credit Scheme Still Worth Claiming? An Honest Assessment Every so often an engineering director asks us a version of the same question: after the reforms, the pre-notification, the extra forms and the HMRC scrutiny, are R&D tax credits still worth the effort? It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch. Why Vantage
We speak your engineers' language.
Technical accuracy
Claims grounded in the actual science and engineering of your project — not a template with your company name pasted in.
Built for scrutiny
Every report is documented to withstand an HMRC compliance check before it's ever submitted.
Defended, not abandoned
If HMRC asks questions, we answer them. Enquiry support is part of how we work, not an upsell.
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