Tax Assistant, R&D Tax


Location – Birmingham, Nottingham


Our client’s national Innovation Reliefs and Incentives team (“IRI”) is part of their wider R&D and Corporate Tax department, where staff work with clients to help them claim tax incentives for innovation and the creative sector. Their staff have the opportunity to develop relationships with clients, to help them claim corporation tax relief or credits for research & development, exploiting patents and producing creative content from video games through to TV programmes. This involves working with clients to produce complex tax claims, computations and documentation for HM Revenue & Customs and giving advice on the effect of the incentives on wider business considerations such as managing effective tax rate, structuring or where to locate research and development activities.


The role                          

The R&D team is looking to expand with the appointment of a Tax Assistant in the team based in the Midlands with an IT, engineering or a science background. R&D Tax Relief provides an incentive to UK businesses carrying out qualifying R&D activity. The team works with businesses from almost every sector of the economy to identify their qualifying R&D activity, quantify it and obtain the R&D incentive relief for them, as well as working with clients to best leverage the Patent Box regime.


Key responsibilities        

This Assistant level role is for a specialist to work with the local incentives personnel to accelerate the growth of our client’s business in this region. You will receive training to support the team to help clients in making claims for R&D Tax relief, as well as Patent Box claims.

You will also be required to:

  • Work with the engagement team to develop claim methodologies and prepare R&D tax relief claims and Patent Box claims for submission to HMRC
  • Support overall client engagement, including liaison with the firm’s and clients’ staff
  • Work with HMRC specialists to facilitate the agreement of R&D and Patent Box claims
  • Support the firm’s technical specialists in explaining and documenting the application of the R&D guidelines to the client and their work
  • Build an internal network within the wider tax practice of the firm
  • Help to establish and maintain strong client relationships with both existing and new clients



Skills and attributes   

  • IT, engineering or science background. 
  • Excellent communication skills in a range of situations with internal team members and senior staff at the client. In particular having an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple language
  • The ability to deal with technical and finance staff on a one to one to basis, conducting structured discussions.
  • Capable of producing documentation to a high level of quality for submission to HMRC
  • Willingness to learn from team to deliver high quality work to the client/HMRC and seek continuous learning.
  • Very good project management skills and an ability to manage own workload.
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Team player  
  • Experience of working in a client facing role and Project management experience
  • Experience with preparing documentation for non-specialists
  • Wider interest in R&D and technology development

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