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R&D tax credit eligibility checker

Five questions based on how GOV.UK defines R&D for tax: work that seeks an advance in science or technology by resolving uncertainty. It's a first filter. Only a specialist review can confirm a claim.

30-second self-check

Could your work count as R&D?

  1. 1Is your business a UK limited company (liable to Corporation Tax)?

  2. 2In the last 2 years, did you spend money creating or improving a product, process, service or software?

  3. 3Did the team hit a technical problem where the answer wasn't known or easy to look up?

  4. 4Did you have to test, prototype or try approaches that didn't work first?

  5. 5Were staff, subcontractors, software, cloud or materials used on that work?

Answer all 5 to see your result. This is a first filter, not a tax decision.

Companies that didn't think they were doing R&D

Food & drink£270,000+in R&D tax credits claimed to date

Elgood's Brewery

Developed sour beers and flavoured wheat beer variants for new market segments.

“They proactively identified costs and kept me informed throughout the whole process.”Belinda Sutton, Managing Director
Read the case study on easyrnd.co.uk
Creative tech£100,000+rebate, processed within 6 weeks

Spin Me Studio

Integrated cameras, lighting and robotics with custom software to automate 360° product photography for e-commerce.

“We did not fully appreciate that [we] were undertaking 'R&D' that was eligible for a corporation tax rebate.”Spin Me directors
Read the case study on easyrnd.co.uk

Case studies, figures and quotes as published by EasyRND (checked September 2026). Every claim is different; these are not typical results or a promise of what you'll get.