
#73 out of 100
The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

3 star accredited
Best companies – “extraordinary” levels of employee engagement

Finalist
Tolley’s Taxation Awards

#77 of 100
The Sunday Times best small companies to work for

3 star accredited
Best Companies – “extraordinary” levels of employee engagement

#1 of 50 & category winner
Overall winner & financial & professional services winner

Winner
Best independent consultancy firm

3 star accredited
Best Companies – “extraordinary” levels of employee engagement

Top 50
Business Leader top 50 trailblazer (Simon Brown)

#47 of 100
The Sunday Times best small companies to work for

Finalist
Employer of the year

Finalist
The ECI B2B Business of the Year

Winner
Financial category

Winner
Accountants and tax adviser of the year

Winner
IoD South West young director of the year (Simon Brown, MD and founder)

Winner
Taxation’s rising star award (Lisa-Marie Smith, director)

Winner
Entrepreneur of the year (Simon Brown, MD and founder)

Winner
Best independent consultancy firm

Finalist
Lloyds Bank best new business of the year

Ranked
#13 of #100

Winner
Startup business of the year

Winner
Business of the year (11-50 employees)

Finalist
The Duke of York new entrepreneur of the year (Simon Brown, MD and founder)

Winner
Service business of the year

Our talented team
When you work with ForrestBrown you’ll find our people energetic and passionate. We pride ourselves not only on our technical tax knowledge but also our client service and in-depth sector expertise. Get to know the chartered tax advisers and accountants, lawyers, sector specialists and former HMRC inspectors that make up the ForrestBrown team.

How we work with you
ForrestBrown can help no matter where you are on your R&D tax credit journey. We can offer advisory support in the form of one-off consultancy projects, or a fully end-to-end R&D tax credit claim service. We use a rigorous, continually improving process informed by policy-level insights. Built-in quality assurance maximises your R&D tax credit claim and protects you from risk. We ensure each claim stands up to HMRC scrutiny.
Our impact
We help innovative businesses grow through the transformative power of R&D tax credits. With our expertise, many of our clients use the benefit they receive to invest in STEM talent and embark on even more ambitious R&D projects. Our work has created the equivalent of more than 10,000 technical jobs in the UK. This impact reaches far and wide. Our clients operate in every industry sector, and range from small and medium-sized businesses, right through to large enterprises.
See how we’ve helped UK businessesIn 2019 we recovered over £125 million for our clients.
James Cannings, Co-Founder & CTO, MMT Digital
Claiming R&D tax credits is a no-brainer. Don’t get hung up on terminology – ‘R&D’ covers a lot of different activity and ForrestBrown will guide you step-by-step. The pay-off of doing so can be phenomenal!
Our enquiry rate was just 0.8% in 2018.
We’d love to talk to you
We’re privileged to see first-hand the positive impact that R&D tax incentives have on our clients’ businesses. We’d love to find out more about your business and discuss how we might be able to help.
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