Unlike many of our competitors MSC R&D has been supporting R&D led companies for over thirty years.
Our R&D Tax Credit client base, built on the strength of word-of-mouth referrals and long-term relationships, boasts some of the UK’s most innovative companies, all in high-technology sectors, primarily software driven.
Three things that set MSC R&D apart:
We also place great emphasis on building strong relationships and have had an excellent retention of high-valued clients for many years.
Established in 1990, MSC R&D has built up an unrivalled wealth of expertise and experience in helping tech businesses optimise their R&D Tax Credit claims.
Building on our history as an expert provider of assistance in obtaining R&D Grant funding, we have seamlessly and successfully transferred our knowledge and deep technical expertise into the R&D Tax Credits market, providing a high quality, high value service to over a thousand leading tech businesses.
We have built up a team of specialists with real expertise in numerous areas of technology and are able to structure and present HMRC compliant R&D Tax Relief claims authoritatively, while giving you the confidence that your application/claim is well founded and fully defensible.
We believe our R&D Tax experts are the best in the business and our service is second to none. Our long history has been built on a reputation for reliability and securing real and lasting benefits for our clients.
Our ethos of wishing to be paid on results provides our clients with low risk, fast-track integrated processes.
The success of MSC R&D is undoubtedly testament to the calibre of people we have in our teams.
We believe that our clients deserve to deal with people of a similar level of experience and expertise, therefore all of our claims are completed directly by a team comprising of one tax-qualified and one technically qualified individual with no junior team members on our team.
Each team member brings their own specific area of expertise to the MSC R&D proposition and is carefully chosen and fully immersed in the MSC R&D Team Way method of working.
On every project, we bring together the appropriate team of leading analysts, each an expert in their field, all highly qualified (including PhDs in Computer Science) and with many years of relevant and practical industry experience. Empowered with the latest skills and current industry knowledge, our people have the experience to hit the ground running – making the process more effective, efficient and enjoyable.
This deep technical and financial expertise is matched by a thorough understanding of the R&D Tax Credit guidelines, acquired through training from our in-house ex-HMRC Inspectors.
From an R&D Tax Credit perspective, we engage with ex-HMRC Inspectors to help us with HMRC compliance on a strategic and tactical level:
Our expert consultant on R&D Tax Credits – Gavin Bate – was responsible for the R&D legislation when he was at HMRC and wrote their internal CIRD guidance manual on the subject.
Our Internal Quality Assurance team consists of – an ex-HMRC senior R&D tax inspectors. Every single claim is reviewed by them and they ensure rigorous compliance to HMRC eligibility criteria which helps us maintain our ISO9001:2015 quality standards.
We have a team with the highest level of expertise at your disposal to explore every technical aspect of a software project.
MSC R&D’s goal has been and remains always to provide the highest levels of quality in customer service.
This motivation has driven us to achieve ISO9001 accreditation in 2015 and subsequently become one of the first companies to convert to the new ISO9001:2015 quality management system in 2017. MSC R&D also gained the prestigious ISO 27001:2022 certification in 2024. This change signifies MSC R&D now operates according to the latest industry standards.
The next step on our Business Excellence journey has been to use the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) Excellence Model to benchmark ourselves against industry best practice.
Following a stringent and robust assessment by EFQM, MSC R&D achieved the highest possible recognition of 2-stars during a rapid assessment process, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to our people, partners, and customers.
