{"id":10717,"date":"2022-11-08T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leyton.com\/uk\/?post_type=white_paper&#038;p=10717"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:25:37","slug":"research-and-development-rd-tax-credits-statistics-2022","status":"publish","type":"white_paper","link":"https:\/\/leyton.com\/uk\/insights\/white-papers\/research-and-development-rd-tax-credits-statistics-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and development (R&amp;D) tax credits statistics 2022: What they say about the health of UK R&amp;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"ori-list_block\" class=\"ori-list full-w  is-style-check-list\"><div class=\" ori-list_only\">\n    <div class=\"ori-container\">\n        <div class=\"ori-row\">\n            <div class=\"list-content\">\n                                    <h2 class=\"list-title\">This guide looks at:<\/h2>\n                                <ul>\n                    <li>Why do R&amp;D tax credit statistics matter?<\/li><li>What do the 2022 R&amp;D tax credit statistics reveal?<\/li><li>How Leyton UK can help.<\/li>                <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong><br><\/strong><strong>Key observations<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>HMRC\u2019s numbers from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/corporate-tax-research-and-development-tax-credit\/research-and-development-tax-credits-statistics-september-2022\">R&amp;D tax credits statistics 2022 report<\/a> show that R&amp;D investment has taken a big hit. We dive deeper into the stats to reveal what they really say about the health of UK R&amp;D, focusing on the following key points:<\/p>\n\n\n<section id=\"ori-list_block\" class=\"ori-list full-w  is-style-check-list\"><div class=\" ori-list_only\">\n    <div class=\"ori-container\">\n        <div class=\"ori-row\">\n            <div class=\"list-content\">\n                                <ul>\n                    <li>R&amp;D expenditure and cost of support claimed figures for 2019 to 2020 have been revised down<\/li><li>HMRC\u2019s R&amp;D statistics for 2020 to 2021 include estimated \u201cuplifts\u201d<\/li><li>Revisions in next year\u2019s publication could show a worse picture<\/li><li>R&amp;D expenditure has declined for the first time since the 2009 to 2010 tax year<\/li><li>Year-on-year expenditure has declined for several UK regions, including East of England<\/li><li>Year-on-year expenditure has declined for several industry sectors, including Manufacturing<\/li><li>Falling R&amp;D expenditure is a blow to the government\u2019s ambitious growth plan<\/li><li>Future R&amp;D funding may be further depressed by planned reforms coming in April 2023<\/li>                <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section id=\"ori-list_block\" class=\"ori-list full-w  is-style-check-list\"><div class=\" ori-list_only\">\n    <div class=\"ori-container\">\n        <div class=\"ori-row\">\n            <div class=\"list-content\">\n                                    <h2 class=\"list-title\">These areas are relevant for the R&amp;D Tax Relief schemes, including:<\/h2>\n                                <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/leyton.com\/uk\/rd-tax-sme\/\">SME R&amp;D Tax Relief<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/leyton.com\/uk\/research-development-expenditure-credit\/\">R&amp;D Expenditure Credit (RDEC)<\/a><\/li>                <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC\u2019s numbers from their R&amp;D tax credits statistics 2022 report show that R&amp;D investment has taken a big hit. We dive deeper into the stats to reveal what they really say about the health of UK R&amp;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10719,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[48,50,52,38,40,54,46,42,56,119,12,96,44],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-10717","white_paper","type-white_paper","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-architecture","category-construction","category-energy","category-engineering","category-financial-services","category-food-and-beverage","category-health-and-pharma","category-manufacturing","category-oil-gas","category-rd-tax-credits","category-software","category-transportation","tag-rd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White paper: Research and development (R&amp;D) tax credits statistics 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HMRC\u2019s numbers from their R&amp;D tax 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