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With over 29 years of experience and unrivalled tax and technical expertise, Leyton Ireland is ideally positioned to unlock the value of your innovative projects. Our team of specialist consultants will work closely with you to identify qualifying R&D expenditures, maximising your tax relief claim.
What Sets Us Apart
Operating globally, our group has multidisciplinary expertise on an international scale. This allows us to adopt a local approach with the backing of a global vision, capable of responding to any type of challenge.
We prioritise compliance at the heart of every project. We implement rigorous checks and regulatory expertise into every stage of delivery, ensuring that your claim is fully aligned with the latest Revenue guidance, legislation and industry standards.
Whether it’s a straightforward clarification request or a Revenue compliance review, our team provides expert support throughout the process. We help ensure your claim is robust, compliant and backed by comprehensive documentation, giving you confidence every step of the way.
We’re more than just tax experts. With years of in-depth industry experience, our consultants combine technical, tax, and sector-specific knowledge to identify eligible costs often overlooked by in-house teams, accountants, or generalist consultancy firms. We go beyond the obvious, ensuring that you maximise the full potential of your Irish R&D Tax Credit claim.
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R&D Tax Credit Eligibility
If your company works on projects that involve developing new or enhancing existing products, processes or services, there’s a strong chance your work might be eligible for R&D Tax Credits.
A good starting point for establishing your eligibility is to consider whether your team faced any uncertainties when the R&D project began. In other words, did your team start the project without knowing for sure if they could achieve the desired result?
If yes, and you can show that your project went beyond simply using existing technologies or scientific knowledge and involved real innovation, you’re can likely claim R&D credits.
Meet your consultancy team, identify key stakeholders, complete an initial R&D eligibility assessment, and agree on the project timeline.
Review your eligible R&D projects, identify qualifying activities, and select the key project(s) that will support your claim.
Identify eligible expenditure, gather financial data and supporting documentation, and map costs to qualifying R&D activities.
Prepare your technical and financial claim documentation, complete our internal quality review, resolve any queries, obtain final approval, and provide full submission guidance and ongoing support.
Trusted by Industry Leaders
We support some of the UK’s most innovative businsses in their growth journey, identifying hidden opportunities and driving meaningful value. From first‑time claimants to complex multi‑year submissions, read more about how our experts have helped our clients.
Russell Pitt
Finance Manager | Kudos Blends
Reach out to the experts! Even though we had claimed previously, and had a rough idea of what we could claim, we were blown away by the actual scope of what the claim could be and what was required.
Paul Speirs
Managing Director | Toolrite
Over the last few years we have been building a new breed of machinery for the new business start-up/sub-contract sector.
Our project was innovative due to its simplicity and tailored nature towards a mid-market entry point. One of the major benefits of our R&D claim was that it opened the door to new claim possibilities.
Michael Rosam
Founder | Quix
Whilst most founders in the technology space should realise that the R&D claim has the potential to be the highest ROI of any time spent across a year, the reality is that finding the time to prepare the claim and ensure robustness just doesn’t materialise. Leyton drove this end-to-end process with our technical leads and accounting partners ensuring that my time was only leveraged for context, confirmation of narrative and appreciation of the level of technical involvement.
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Find out more about Leyton’s Services from our frequently asked questions.
There are huge benefits to claiming R&D Tax Credits.
Offsetting the costs of your research and development makes the work itself more affordable and future investment in innovation more likely. This allows you to improve your existing products and services, or create new ones, helping you to develop a competitive edge.
The benefit you receive can help your business grow by accelerating current projects or allowing you to start new ones. Businesses that have received R&D credits often invest in hiring more people, expanding their facilities, upgrading their equipment, or upskilling their workforce through training.
As the R&D Corporation Tax Credit offers three staged payments through the year, it also helps businesses main a regular cash flow.
To claim R&D Tax Credits, a company must be subject to Corporation Tax in Ireland and conduct qualifying research and development activities in Ireland, the EEA, or the UK. You can’t, however, claim if your expenditure on R&D qualifies for a tax deduction in another country. These activities should involve scientific or technological advancements and aim to resolve an uncertainty. Your work must include systemic, investigative or experimental activities in either basic research, applied research or experimental development.
The R&D Tax Credit is calculated as 25% (or 30% from January 2024 onwards) of your qualifying research and development expenditure. Examples of qualifying R&D expenditure might include staff costs, materials, certain utilities, subcontracting costs and some software costs. If a cost is split between R&D and non-R&D activities, an appropriate apportionment can be made.
The best way to prepare for making any R&D claim is to keep detailed records of all research and development projects. Your records should include information such as a description of the work performed (including the uncertainties you faced and how you systematically overcame them), the personnel involved, what materials were consumed, financial records of any project-related expenses, etc.
