R&D Accountant Partners – R&D Tax Credit Partner Programme

What sets ForrestBrown apart

Unrivalled technical firepower

Your ForrestBrown team will include a proven combination of qualified chartered tax advisers and accountants, lawyers, former-HMRC inspectors, and sector specialists with hands-on industry experience.

Augmented by our proprietary technology, our team of leading technical experts work to deliver robust claims for your clients.

Leading our industry

We’re passionate about R&D tax credits and how the incentive help businesses innovate and grow.

That’s why we don’t just react to policy changes, but proactively help shape them.

We’re members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), leading professional standards in an otherwise unregulated market.

Advice on your terms

We’d love to help your clients make the most of their innovation. We offer a range of tax advisory services. From our end-to-end R&D tax claim service, to delivering consultancy projects and enquiry support. We have the technical firepower to help their business grow.

Always tailored to your clients’ needs, we work flexibly to deliver actionable R&D tax advice.

How we can help

As R&D tax relief becomes more complex and HMRC increases its compliance focus, our team can help you and your clients manage risk.

We build long-term relationships based on trust and expertise by providing an award-winning specialist service to help your network thrive.
We invest our time in understanding your requirements and those of your clients so we can add value to your team. A dedicated liaison at ForrestBrown will be your point of contact, working collaboratively to ensure optimal support for your clients.
See your clients go from strength-to-strength as they understand all the sources of funding available to them.
As trusted partners, we’ll keep you informed of the latest developments in R&D tax, as well as opportunities across the wider innovation toolkit. We provide information for accountants throughout the year, through our newsletters, webinars and in-person events.

R&D bites newsletter

From new legislation to the latest trends in HMRC enquiries, R&D bites helps readers stay on top of continued change and complexity as well as providing practical examples of innovation funding in action.

How we partner with accountants

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Full claim preparation

Our sector specialists work with your client’s technical teams, providing an end-to-end service to uncover all their R&D activities, including numbers and tehnical case study preparation.

Following a referral, we will take time to understand your client’s business and uncover the full extent of their R&D. Our approach is rigorous and has a quality assurance process built in.

This results in an R&D tax relief claim that is considered and robust.

All we ask of you is to share some financial information about their costs – with your client’s approval of course.
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Tailored support

Our FB Consulting team help accountants and companies who don’t need help with the entire process but need expert advice in specific areas such as claim reviews and HMRC enquiry support. Wherever you are in the process, ForrestBrown can offer expertise and add value.

Success stories

HMRC enquiry support

We help accountants minimise the risk of enquiry to clients.

We’re working with ForrestBrown to support our clients in identifying projects that qualify, particularly in identifying project boundaries, while we take care of the tax side of things. By bringing ForrestBrown in early, we can drastically reduce the risk of an HMRC enquiry.

Allison Walker, Director, Freestone Jacobs

Johan du Toit, VP Finance West, GMO Globalsign Ltd

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.

Sector specific support

We help this Top 40 firm with sector-specific R&D claims.

Every client I’ve referred has loved ForrestBrown’s way of working. It’s a great addition to Old Mill’s client service.

Aisha Perrott AAT CTA, R&D tax specialist, Old Mill

Natalie Staples-Vvind, Partner, HSJ Accountants

Clients tell us that ForrestBrown are easy to talk to, have a great understanding of their businesses 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.