R&D
Tax Relief
Gareth Edwards, Managing Director of ela8 limited, was a director of the
award-winning Deloitte R&D Tax Services team until April 2007 and
since then has worked independently with a wide-range of clients, from
international groups to small SMEs, to bring significant benefit to
them through submission of claims for R&D tax relief.
Gareth’s
background is as an R&D professional and entrepreneur and his
continued interest and insight into technology means that he is able to
understand the technological challenges faced by his clients and
identify how their work meets the criteria for eligibility for R&D
tax relief. Gareth is able to talk to the technical personnel
within the business to extract from them the scope and basis for the
R&D claims and to assist in presenting this in a way that the tax
authorities will understand and accept.
Gareth has over 25 years
experience of active R&D development, gained in a wide range of
industries but specialising mostly in software, microelectronics,
telecommunications and medical physics. He held a number of senior
R&D posts for major international companies and ran his own SME
hi-tech development and manufacturing company, before joining the
R&D Tax Services team at Deloitte on its inception in 2003. This
experience means he is able to understand and effectively operate with
a wide range of companies and environments, and is able to communicate
with technical specialists in their own language. He holds an MA from
Cambridge University, is a Member of the Institute of Directors, and a
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (email Here).
Teresa Latch's background until 2003 was in law and corporate tax
work. From the introduction of the R&D tax relief regimes in the
UK, Teresa worked within the Deloitte team providing a range of
services to a client base ranging from the pharmaceutical industry to
engineering consultancies, aerospace and defence equipment providers.
Teresa
was one of the initial members of the Deloitte R&D Tax Services
team and her experience in this sector since 2003 means that she has
developed a good working relationship with HMRC, has prepared a
significant number of claims for both SME and large companies and
understands the key areas of difficulty that applicants face when
putting together their claims, particularly as regards the
quantification of the claims. She is a Batchelor of Laws and
undertook her chartered accountancy training (ACA) whilst working for
Andersen (email Here).
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