The accelerating drive toward greater efficiency and effectiveness – not to mention sustainability and ecological friendliness, is throwing an ever tighter spotlight on innovation with each passing year. We're paying closer, more results-minded attention to our R&D, treating it less as leap of faith and more as a finely calculated risk. Innovation, to be fair, is always a dice roll - but those dice can be loaded if you understand the rules of the game.

Innovating to make your business more efficient, effective and sustainable takes strong planning and solid funding. That means you need to look harder and further for finance options, and to understand exactly which of them fit you best.

IR35 is a piece of legislation that allows HMRC to assess whether a contractor is an employee or not. At the moment responsibility for determining whether IR35 applies sits with the contractor. This guide explains what is happening in April 2020 when the responsibility for determining whether IR35 applies will move from the contractor to the client if the client is a medium or large organisation.

It can be pretty annoying when someone else gets credit for your hard work, particularly when the fakers go down in the history books and become the ones best known for your invention.

When the report from UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out in 2018, its conclusion was pretty stark. The only way to keep the effects of climate change manageable would be to cut our worldwide carbon emissions by half before 2030. While that deadline still seems a fairly long way off, investing in the future of the planet is like saving cash in a pension.

The UK government has committed to a series of sustainability targets for itself in the 20/21 tax year. These include a reduction of 34% in carbon emissions, halving water consumption, cutting waste by 30% and recycling 75% of it. With 2020 representing a key crunch point for coordinated efforts to keep climate change under some kind of control, every sector is under pressure to work “greener

The decisions you commit to at the outset of a project can dictate the entire course your project takes – along with the tools and resources you’ll have available to make it happen. Value Engineering uses innovative thinking to find the most efficient way to achieve your goals.

Why are HMRC opening more enquiries into R&D Claims? Isn’t the money there to be claimed on for innovative businesses? Well, yes, it is. But there’s much more to it than that.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is a powerful voice promoting the very real contributions of the construction industry to business, the economy and society as a whole. That’s why RIFT was delighted to hold our construction webinar in partnership with them on the 6th of November.