Sachin is a co-founder and Managing Director of Innovation Tax Specialists, assisting companies to claim innovation tax incentives from the Government. Having previously held a number of senior sales management positions and with a proven track record for increasing turnover and driving success, Sachin has nearing ten years’ experience of the R&D Tax Credits scheme, during which he has helped over 270 companies reclaim a combined £38 million in tax benefit. With a background in Law from De Montfort University, his passion to help innovative businesses resulted in the creation of Innovation Tax Specialists.

Taz is a co-founder and Tax Director within Innovation Tax Specialists. He has eight years’ experience in tax reliefs available to innovative businesses such as R&D Tax Credits, Patent Box, Capital Allowances and SEIS. He uses his experience to lead our Accounting Partner programme, ensuring that reliefs such as R&D can be identified and efficiently claimed though a defined claims process. Taz also oversees the financial and tax aspects of the work undertaken by our R&D Technical Experts. This involves offering support to the team and delivering training internally, as well as externally to our Partners. He previously worked in large national accountancy firms in Audit and Corporation Tax. This led to a keen interest in the Innovation sector and the motivation to establish Innovation Tax.

Hitesh is a former HM Inspector of Taxes with over 23 years of experience in HMRC, most recently in the R&D Tax Credit Unit at Leicester, one of only 5 administering the regime nationally. During his tenure, Hitesh’s primary responsibilities were to ensure claims were compliant, identify error and fraud, train other members of the team on the R&D legislation and advise on policy, together with hands-on exposure to the HMRC Enquiry process. His background has delivered a wealth of invaluable experience to Innovation Tax Specialists, helping to ensure that each claim undertaken is both technically compliant and robust and fully maximised in value against the latest legislative criteria.