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Want to keep up to date on everything that is going on in the world of Innovation and R&D? The CP Innovation team produce a regular newsletter which provides a round up of news, expert opinion with a healthy dose of humour and insight into their world within Cooper Parry. Current edition Download a PDF […]

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BOLTING THE STABLE DOOR? HMRC’s APPROACH TO R&D

At the end of July HMRC set our their “approach to R&D tax reliefs”. Which we think is essentially a drawn-out justification of some of the recent behaviours we’ve all seen. Possibly it’s also an indirect response to the CIOT letter I’ve mentioned before. As an aside it’s worth connecting with me or CP Innovation […]

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Don’t let the sun go down on museums and galleries exhibition tax relief

Creative tax reliefs have provided vital support over recent years to companies in the sector. Museums and Galleries Exhibitions Tax Relief (MGETR) is one such relief available to qualifying museums, galleries and heritage institutions that are directly involved in the production of new exhibitions. The good news is that MGETR has been extended for two […]

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VIDEO GAMES TAX RELIEF CONTINUES TO EVOLVE

3 July 2023

Have you met the Super Mario Brothers? Been introduced to Lara Croft or Zelda? Or maybe your gaming tastes are more Call of Duty. Even...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATENT BOX

19 June 2023

Ten years on from the introduction of Patent Box by the UK Government to encourage companies to retain and commercialise patents, could you apply for...

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R&D CHANGES FROM 31st JULY – deadline extended

18 April 2023

Many changes to the R&D tax regimes are underway and further guidance has emerged from HMRC regarding the new compulsory additional information form. There’s also...

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Single R&D scheme for SMEs and Large Companies – coming soon?

3 March 2023

Whilst the government remains keen to continue to incentivise UK companies to carry out research and development (‘R&D’), there has been a great deal of...

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PLASTIC POLLUTION – PROTECTING OUR OCEANS

1 March 2023

We recently asked our new CP Innovation consultants to write articles on their areas of interest. Here’s the first from Nisha Dunga who has a...

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R&D CHANGES HOKEY COKEY – WHERE ARE WE NOW?

19 January 2023

In what feels like (and most likely is) the third version of this article we’ve had to do, we thought it would be helpful to...

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PATENT BOX – A PRESENT WORTH OPENING

12 December 2022

At the moment the spotlight is very firmly on R&D Tax Relief with lots of discussion around the new rules and a change in the...

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R&D CHA-CHA-CHA-CHANGES

28 November 2022

The Chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement contained a few changes on R&D (mainly around rates) but I’ve seen quite a few commentaries that seem to have...

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Times articles have R&D industry spooked

31 October 2022

Nicely timed for Halloween, The Times has certainly stirred the cauldron over this weekend by opening the closet and throwing some skeletons out of it!...

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