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Expert Tips for Defending Your Claim

Download GrantTree’s free guide to resolving an HMRC R&D Compliance Check, packed with the latest insights and expert tips from our Enquiry Support team. This guide includes:

  • Expert tips for resolving your enquiry
  • Tactics HMRC uses to disqualify R&D
  • What happens during each stage of an enquiry

In this Guide

  • What Happens During an Enquiry

    What to expect during each the five main stages of an enquiry, from initial letter through to first-tier tax tribunal.

  • Next Steps After an Enquiry Letter

    The six things you should do once you receive a notification that your claim is being enquired.

  • HMRC Tactics for Disqualifying R&D

    The four main tactics HMRC uses to prove that your research and development work is ineligible for relief.

  • Expert Tips to Resolve Your Enquiry

    Our most effective tips for proving your eligibility and achieving a favourable outcome.

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GrantTree is Here to Help

Facing an active enquiry? GrantTree’s Enquiry Support experts can handle your investigation for you, working directly with HMRC to prove your eligibility and unlock your funding. To get help, just get in touch.

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Over £7 million freed from enquiries in the last year

Dedicated Expertise

Our Enquiry Support team navigates enquiries day in, day out

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We adapt our strategies to keep pace with HMRC’s ever-changing approach

Our Enquiry Experts

Led by Dr Rhianon Jones, PhD, GrantTree’s Enquiry Support team boasts the technical and financial firepower needed to prove to HMRC that your work qualifies for R&D Tax Relief.

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Freed from enquiries in the last year

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Filing and defending R&D Tax Relief claims

Dr Rhianon Jones, PhD
Head of Enquiry Support

Drawing on her extensive enquiry-handling experience, Rhianon works on behalf of our clients to liberate millions of pounds tied up in complex HMRC investigations.
Lewis Songaila
Head of R&D Tax Credits

Lewis runs GrantTree's leading R&D Tax Relief consultancy service. He has 7 years of R&D Tax experience and has personally filed over £100 million worth of claims.
Claire Walker, MBA
Key Customer Success Manager

Claire is a vastly experienced project and relationship manager, having spent the previous 20 years in client- and partner-facing roles across the consultancy and financial services industries.
James Dyer
Financial Consultant

Calling on four years of finance and accounting experience, James focuses on the financial aspects of R&D Tax enquiries, working to defend every penny of eligible expenditure.

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