I am looking into successful r & d relief claims by agricultural-related entities, ie farming companies. my clients are mostly farming sole traders and p'ships but some are investigating new processes/crops/techniques so it would be helpful to see what sort of things are successfully getting tax relief, to see if any are worth incorporating in able to claim. any links would be most helpful. thanks!
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Brewers
There are reports from R&D consultants that they have found success with Brewers making claims based on creating new drinks. Not sure how different this is to new crops, but I doubt it will swing the calculation in favour of incorporation for farmers, unless done on a large scale?
Farmers
Haven't done any for farmers myself but have done a few for Brewers and they were all around the methods used to produce beer, spirits etc. Where they were trying to use new and previously untested methods to produce either a better end product or one which could be made faster.
Also seeing a big increase in recycling company claims where it's generally around them trying to improve processes to make things more efficient.
Provided information regarding if what the farmer is trying will work or fail isn't in the public domain then see no reason why it couldn't qualify but if it's worth incorporating to receive the benefit is worth it is another question all together.
Does this article from Acoura help?
http://acoura.com/blog/2/194/sfqc-blog/are-farmers-missing-out-on-r-d-ta...
Grant for not farming ...
An oldie ..
https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/letter-times-about-grants-not...
Agricultural research is a "thing"
After leaving university, many years ago, I did a stint as an agricultural researcher with the Ministry of Agriculture (as it was then). There's no doubt that there is plenty of scientific research going on in agriculture. There's no particular reason why a private enterprise couldn't carry out a scientific trial to address a scientific or technological uncertainty in the field (ha!) of agricultural research. Having said that, I haven't done any claims for farmers (but then I do work in the City of London). (PS, why can't I put any line breaks in this post?)