Is your company eligible to claim R&D tax credits?

Have you developed new tools, products or services using technology?

The development of new processes, materials, devices, tools, products or services can all be eligible.

Have you tried to improve your existing This normally involves making something products through technical changes?

This normally involves making something products through technical changes? measurably better: faster, lighter, smaller, more efficient, stronger, more durable, more productive, lower cost or more sustainable.

Have you found more efficient ways to produce your products or services?

You could be eligible for R&D tax credits if you have found a way to produce the same product but in a better way (e.g. using fewer resources or less energy).

Have you experimented with new Experimentation, trials and developing equipment or production techniques?

Experimentation, trials and developing equipment or production techniques? prototypes suggests a desired solution is not obvious, and R&D was occurring.

At the start of a project, did you ever think ‘I’m not sure of the best way to do this’?

If there were a number of ways to achieve something at the outset you were not clear which was the best, this supports the case for eligibility.

Have any of your projects failed for technical reasons?

Projects do not have to be successful to qualify. If a project failed for technical, rather than commercial or managerial, reasons, it may well be eligible.