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 through a defined claims process. Taz also oversees the financial and tax aspects of the work undertaken by our R&D Technical Experts, offering support and delivering training both internally to staff, as well as externally to our Accounting Partners. Having previously worked for several large national accountancy firms within Audit and Corporation Tax, Taz developed a keen interest in the Innovation sector and the motivation to establish Innovation Tax Specialists.
Ian is an award-winning innovator and engineering specialist (BSc in Electronics & Computing) who has provided technical, project and innovation leadership, acclaimed by and delivering £multi-million benefits for a number of companies, including Rolls Royce plc, he is also a member of Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Institute of Measurement and Control (IMC), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and serves on the innovation board at D2N2.
With 30 years’ experience working with Rolls Royce, and 10 years in other Engineering industries, Ian has built up significant knowledge and expertise within engineering and intellectual property across many sectors, including Aerospace, Automotive, Marine, automation & Control, and FMCG, where he has been instrumental in delivering continuous improvement across many projects, applying strategic thinking, specialist design skills and acquired engineering breadth resulting in reduced cost, scrap / duplication, improved productivity, quality and enhanced skills, knowledge and confidence.
His background has delivered a wealth of invaluable experience to Innovation Tax Specialists, helping to ensure our clients receive the maximum benefit from their R&D and Intellectual Property activities by carrying out site assessments with competent professionals and writing fully compliant and robust technical justification reports to support the claim to HMRC.
Accomplishments: 115 granted patents, 26 publications, 5 honours & Awards