The reason for this Blog is that I was very surprised that a local firm that is in involved marine design and development, which I was providing mentoring support to, had to use a specialist consultant to recover their entitlement for R&D tax credits. The firm are using a well established mid-sized regional firm of Chartered Accountants for their accounts production and tax returns. But they had never suggested that the allowance was claimable, even though the R&D tax credit is recoverable by completion of the firm’s annual tax return (CT600).