Built for Birmingham's businesses
Birmingham has real strength in manufacturing, professional services and a fast-growing tech scene, and startups here don't need a generalist down the road — they need specialists who answer quickly and price fairly. Because we work online, you get exactly that, plus a nudge towards the right local support: the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Growth Hub is a good first stop for grants and advice, and our Swoop-powered funding portal searches 1,000+ lenders and grant schemes on top.
What can Birmingham manufacturers claim on equipment and development?
Manufacturing and engineering businesses across Birmingham and the West Midlands spend real money on plant, machinery and tooling, and how that spend is claimed changes the tax bill materially. Most equipment qualifies for the Annual Investment Allowance, and companies can claim full expensing on qualifying new plant and machinery — but cars follow different rules, and anything bought on the wrong side of a year end delays the relief by twelve months. Process improvement often qualifies for R&D relief too: it does not have to happen in a laboratory, it has to be a genuine advance in science or technology with real technical uncertainty behind it. We size a claim honestly rather than optimistically, because HMRC now looks at these far more closely than it used to.
