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David Cobb and John Moore of Deloitte's R&D tax services team explore the changes proposed in the PBR
 
In July 2003 HM Treasury DTI and Inland Revenue published a consultation document seeking views on improving the definition of qualifying R&D and associated costs in order to better support R&D activity by UK companies. The Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report in December 2003 contained the Government's response to the suggestions made by 76 interested parties.
 
We along with a number of the other respondents had urged the Government to clarify the definition of R&D in order to provide a more objective set of tests for companies. Our experience is that the original DTI guidelines and the subsequent commentary on the guidance have proved difficult to work with in practice. Because they both...

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