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Accountant partner programme
Tailored and flexible support
ForrestBrown offers a transparent and tailored approach to R&D tax relief and innovation incentives that works for you.
Whether you require full end-to-end claim preparation for your clients or support to enhance your in-house offering, we can help. We provide:
- Expert technical support from our market-leading team of qualified tax and industry specialists.
- A trusted partner that ensures claims are fully optimised and protected from risk.
- A tailored approach designed to meet the individual needs of you and your clients, either on an ongoing or one-off basis.
Accountant partner
“Clients tell us that ForrestBrown are easy to talk to, have a great understanding of their business and have been extremely efficient. They are delighted with the financial benefit they receive. I would recommend other accountancy practices to get in touch with ForrestBrown as it’s a great way to deliver a high quality R&D tax credit service.”
Natalie Staples-Vvind, Partner, HSJ Accountants
Accountant referral
“We began working with ForrestBrown on our R&D tax relief claims, after our accountant, a Top 15 practice, suggested that we could benefit from their significant software expertise. Their knowledge of qualifying expenditure within the sector meant we were able to uncover all of our R&D and feel the full benefit of our investment in innovation.”
Johan du Toit, VP, Finance West, GMO Globalsign Ltd
Your team
Partnering with ForrestBrown means that you’ll have access to a wealth of tax and industry expertise, as well as a dedicated point of contact.
Dedicated point of contact: Our accountant partner programme is led by Kelly Oakley CTA, who has over a decade’s R&D tax experience. The accountant team will be your first point of contact and will work closely with you.
Technical experts: Our technical specialists have real-world expertise in a range of sectors, including technology, digital and manufacturing, enabling them to validate your client’s R&D and translate it for HMRC.
Tax experts: With almost 16,000 R&D tax relief claims processed by ForrestBrown in over a decade, our tax and accountant-qualified delivery team knows the rules and how to mitigate risk.
HMRC insights: Ex-HMRC inspector, Mark Andrew, has specialised in R&D tax since 2006. He provides unique insights, quality assurance and essential support for HMRC meeting preparation.
R&D tax services for accountants
We offer a comprehensive R&D tax relief service, including enquiry support, alongside wider innovation incentive services.
Full end-to-end management of your client’s R&D claim, from initial assessment through to submission, and answering any questions that HMRC raise.
Our specialist enquiry team supports companies with compliance checks into claims prepared elsewhere. This includes project re-articulation, written responses and managing challenges from HMRC.
We can prepare or review narratives to ensure they are HMRC-ready and align with your client’s activities. Our security cleared team can manage even the most sensitive of projects.
Whether you want a high-level risk assessment or a detailed analysis of a claim prepared by your client or another adviser, we can provide a second pair of eyes to give you the reassurance you need.
Support on highly complex issues such as software eligibility, defence and security-sensitive work, overseas expenditure exceptions and contracted-out R&D.
We help move your growing or complex clients beyond single-year claims towards a future-proofed R&D methodology that is aligned to your client’s tax strategy and risk appetite.
R&D bites
From new legislation to the latest trends in HMRC enquiries, our dedicated newsletter for accountants helps readers stay on top of changes in R&D policy and practice and spot opportunities for clients across the wider innovation toolkit. We also signpost our forthcoming webinars and in-person events.
Support your clients’ innovation beyond R&D tax relief
If your client would like support to realise the full financial and strategic potential of their innovation, we can appraise their funding strategy. ForrestBrown’s holistic approach to incentives and reliefs gives businesses a clearer view of their options.
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Learn moreWhat sets ForrestBrown apart for accountants
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Flexible and tailored support
We recognise that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to partnering on R&D claims. Since yours and your clients’ needs are unique, we offer flexible and tailored support. Whether that’s full end-to-end claim support or help with an individual part of a claim, we work flexibly to provide actionable R&D advice that ensures your client’s claim is fully optimised and protected from risk. -
Deep technical expertise
Your experienced ForrestBrown team will include qualified chartered tax advisers and accountants, technical experts and a former-HMRC inspector, who bring unique perspectives to your client’s claim. Our technical specialists have hands-on experience of a range of industries, speak the language of your client’s project team and can articulate complex R&D accessibly. -
Trusted partner
ForrestBrown has an unrivalled reputation for authority and technical excellence. We’ve been recognised as the Best Independent Consultancy Firm in the Tolley’s Taxation Awards three times and are members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). That’s why we’re trusted by hundreds of companies across a wealth of sectors, from high-growth SMEs to large multinationals.
Chosen by the UK’s leading innovators
Success stories
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ForrestBrown has the calibre of people to understand what we’re doing, which is no mean feat given that we’re building a quantum computer. Knowing that we can trust them to translate our complex projects to HMRC and deliver our R&D claim on time is pretty important to us.
Richard Murray
Co-founder and CEO,
ORCA Computing
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ForrestBrown’s technical expertise was fantastic. Using their technical grounding coupled with information-gathering skills, they extracted the key details needed for the claim. The team is responsive, flexible and pleasant to work with, making the claim process smooth and easy.
Adrian Johns
CFO,
Lucky Saint
Get in touch
Our dedicated team can support you and your clients across all aspects of R&D tax relief claims and wider innovation incentives.
Whether you need end-to-end claim support, technical help to identify risk or qualifying R&D, or simply need additional resource due to audit conflict, we can help.
FAQ
We will work closely with you as an extension of your team and keep you up to date at all times. Day to day, you can expect regular catch ups, monthly reporting and for us to work proactively with you to identify opportunities for your clients.
Yes. Grant opportunities can often be missed owing to short competition windows and the amount of work that it takes to prepare an application. Our grants team keeps on top of upcoming grant opportunities and can inform you of relevant competitions for specific clients. We can then work with them to ensure that they’re bid-ready once the opportunity goes live. To help stay on top of grant funding opportunities, sign up to our newsletter, Grant Scan.
In order to prepare a claim for your client, we will need technical and financial information – with their permission, of course. This will be stored securely in our in-house system, which features secure file sharing and permission protection for confidential documents.
Yes. ForrestBrown can support you when you’re conflicted out. Once we’ve agreed the scope of work with you, we will assume responsibility for the project, ensuring that we liaise directly with your client.
