Many firms in the automotive sector are likely to be eligible for some form of tax relief on their R&D activities. Here’s how to make a successful – and potentially very lucrative – claim.
Jumpstart, the UK’s leading R&D tax relief specialist, welcomes the focus on innovation in the 2017 budget. Scott Henderson, Jumpstart’s Managing Director commented:
The last of our longest-running scientific experiments may have only been on the go since 1988, but that’s many millennia to some bacteria. And that’s the point.
Talk about commitment! Pioneering psychoanalyst Dr Janet Carr began her longitudinal study of people with Down’s syndrome and their families in 1964 and continued it for half a century, by which time she was 87.
Who doesn’t love a Chinese or Indian takeaway on a Friday night! To keep all those millions happy and – more importantly – the 3.5 billion people for whom rice is their staple food from going hungry, researchers have been conducting the Long-Term Continuous Cropping Experiment (LTCCE) on a particularly busy one-hectare field in the Philippines.
For those for whom watching paint dry or grass grow is a little too riveting, welcome to the mind-bogglingly slow world of Thomas Parnell’s pitch drop experiment.
Some things can’t be rushed. Take the Framingham Heart Study, which deliberately set out to check for markers and risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a large number of participants over an extended time frame.
You’ve heard the saying ‘Cotton is King’. Well in America’s Deep South where it originated, the royal crown was most definitely slipping towards the end of the 19th century.
‘X’ may mark the spot on a map of what is now Michigan State University campus, though whether you’d consider what you dug up there to be buried treasure very much depends on your scientific outlook.
It may have only been on the go since the middle of the 19th century, but the next of our longest-running scientific experiments can trace its origins back much further, to AD79.
