The accounting and tax work is the same in every sector. What differs is which costs qualify for R&D relief, which relief route pays more, where VAT falls and how quickly cash leaves the business.
A software company’s R&D claim is mostly engineering salaries and cloud computing. A hardware company’s includes materials used up in prototypes. A biotech company’s is often payments to a contract research organisation, which only the company that commissioned the work can claim. Each sector page covers these points with a worked example and the questions founders in that sector ask.
