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The UN’s International Panel on Climate Change published its latest report in October 2018. It highlighted the need to curb activities that are accelerating climate change and to cap the…

What is #FindOutInFifteen? In Cooden Tax Consulting’s experience, we’ve found that an initial 15-minute phone call is normally sufficient for us to determine whether there is some potential in a…

And as always, they make for some very interesting reading. Certainly, our own anecdotal evidence from the last 9 months is that there has been a significant uptake by companies…

The 1st of September marks the 5-year anniversary of when our director Simon Bulteel, quit his job at a World Championship winning Motorsport Team and decided to help Small and…

Two such stories are worthy of mention when it comes to R&D Tax Credits. The first has been driven by the Blue Planet documentary highlighting the level of plastics in…

Money available for East Sussex business Have you got ideas to grow your business or develop a new product, but not quite enough money, expertise or resources to make it…

The Business Show 2018 Come and see us at The Business Show 2018 on May 16th-17that Excel London where our Managing Director and R&D tax relief specialist, Simon Bulteel, will…

We need your support! Enterprise Nation are celebrating Britain’s hard-working small business advisers with their Top 50 Advisers Competition. Our Managing Director, Simon Bulteel, has been named as an Enterprise…

Don’t fear a flavourless beer if you are doing Dry January! Just because you are doing Dry January doesn’t mean that you need to put up with a flavourless beer….

  Play a small part in a big picture Over the last couple of years we have supported three charities and organisations within the East Sussex area and feel that…

We recently attended The Business Show at Olympia, London on 16th-17th November 2017, a national show for start-ups and small business owners. The Business Show is one of the fastest growing…

What is Research and Development (R & D) Tax Relief, and how does it work? The scheme allows for businesses that qualify to claim R&D Tax Relief. It is a…

R&D Tax Relief mistakes you wouldn’t expect from a Top 20 firm of accountants! So, I’ve just finished a project for a new client. They have recently switched accountants, the…

Just how innovative do you need to be to claim #RnD Tax Relief? I thought I would write this blog after talking to a potential client that was referred to…

The more things change the more the regulators are playing catch up! So we have already looked at FinTech as a relatively new phrase that has been used to describe…

Defining Insurtech According to a Wikipedia, the term Insurtech refers to innovations in technology that “squeeze out savings and efficiency from the current insurance industry model”, making it sound something…

We’ve paid for the Champagne, now talk to us to see if we can make your accounts sparkle with R&D Tax Relief. “Too much of anything is bad, but too…

In our last blog we touched on how changes in technology were driving changes in our language. Spend enough time in the business pages of The Times or looking at…

Behind it all – are businesses dedicated to investing in research and development projects? Many technical terms – and there seem to be new words competing for Oxford English Dictionary…

This is a question we get asked a lot by most potential clients. Quite often they have already looked through their accounts and identified a pot of costs that they…