Midlands R and D tax credit seminar dates

Faraday Plastics, the UK's plastics research and development centre, is holding two further meetings on the tax credit opportunities available through company research and development activity

Together with Plastics West Midlands, (PWM) Faraday Plastics, the UK's plastics research and development centre, is holding two further meetings on the tax credit opportunities available through company research and development activity.

'Getting the tax man to pay for your R and D' will be held at the International Manufacturing Centre, Warwick University on Monday March 22 and at the Photonics Cluster, Aston Science Park Birmingham on Friday March 26.

Early booking is advised and a fee of only GBP15.00 is charged, just to cover costs.

Faraday Plastics director Richard Simpson says that 'judging by the feedback received at our seminars to date, this is an area where most plastics processors have not been well advised by their accountants.

Up to 150% of a company's research and development expenditure can be set against profitability and the company's tax burden'.

Faraday Plastics and PWM held three successful seminars on the subject in the West Midlands at the end of last year.

As part of these events, spokesmen from accountancy firms and from the Inland Revenue outlined the criteria for tax relief eligibility.

A worked example given was the case of an SME company which makes an annual pre-tax profit of GBP40,000.

The accounts include GBP30,000 expenditure on qualifying R and D.

The Tax Credits provide an additional relief of 50% of the GBP30,000 - ie GBP15,000 - thus reducing the taxable profit to GBP25,000.

Richard Simpson adds that 'it is vital that the company accountants and financiers in our polymer companies are aware of Research and Development as a credit note and as a positive issue in the reckoning and balancing of the business.'.

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