Welcome To CBTax
Join the fastest growing R&D Tax Consultancy
High Growth Business of the Year - Northamptonshire Business Awards 2025
Accounting Excellence ‑ Winner – Fast‑track Firm of the Year 2022
NBEA ‑ Finalist – Employer of the Year 2022
NBEA ‑ Winner ‑ Northamptonshire Business of the Year 2021
Accountancy Age – Top 100 Firms 2021
What is R&D Tax Relief?
R&D (Research and Development) Tax Relief is a government incentive designed to encourage innovation within Irish and UK businesses. If a company is investing in developing new products, processes, or services, or improving existing ones, they may be eligible for significant tax savings or cash repayments.
Examples of qualifying R&D activity can include:
- Solving complex technical problems
- Developing or improving software
- Creating or refining prototypes
- Advancing manufacturing processes
Even businesses that don’t see themselves as "innovators" are often surprised to find they qualify.
Scheme Benefits
- Tax Savings / Cash Back: Eligible companies can recover a significant portion of their R&D costs, ranging from hundreds of thousands for small to medium businesses to millions of pounds for large-scale innovators.
- Broad Sector Coverage: Applies to companies in engineering, construction, technology, agriculture, energy, life sciences, automotive, aerospace, fintech, food and beverage production, pharmaceuticals, and green technologies.
- Funding Growth: Helps businesses reinvest in innovation, scale faster, and stay competitive.
- Commercial Edge: Utilising R&D tax relief is often a hallmark of smart, forward-thinking leadership.
What you'll actually do with your STEM background:
We help innovative businesses in engineering, scientific, manufacturing, software, energy, and more, identify and document eligible R&D so they can claim tax relief. We sit where technical insight meets financial strategy.
Engineers and scientists translate their R&D into words; we translate those words into tax value for clients.
- Run technical discovery interviews and on-site visits with engineers, lab teams and developers
- Analyse experiments, prototypes, failed iterations and document the technical uncertainty and the “advance” sought.
- eWrite clear, defensible technical reports that support a claim and stand up to tax authority review.
- Collaborate with tax teams to construct claims and advise clients on R&D processes.
- Locations
- Dublin
About CBTax
CBTax are a leading professional tax consultancy practice operating across the whole of the UK, specialising in R&D Tax Relief claims. With a wealth of experience from qualified, experienced Chartered Tax Advisers, leading Sector Specialists, Chartered Accountants and Research Analysts.
Our team have knowledge of diverse sectors, tax and industry-based experience to maximise our clients R&D Tax Relief claims.
CBTax won the SME - Apprentice Employer of the Year 2024, the Accounting Excellence – Fast-track Firm of the Year 2022 award, previously winning NBEA – Northamptonshire Business of the Year Award 2021 and are finalist for the NBEA – Employer of the Year 2022.
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