At the end of last week, HMRC announced the launch of its R&D Advance Assurance Pilot (as blogged on here on 26 September).

Did you spot the announcement?

Unfortunately, it was rather hidden away and wasn’t even referenced on its “What’s New” page.

The Pilot relies upon HMRC being able to get sufficient numbers of Small Companies (< 50 employees) to sign up and participate.  That could be a challenge if this is an indication of how well they will publicise it!