Aarti Varia (FCCA)
Founder
ACCA Practicing member
Aarti is a well-known R&D Tax claims specialist with over 17 years experience in preparing R&D claims for both large companies and SMEs across a wide range of sectors including Technology, Manufacturing, Construction, Printing, Aerospace and Utilities, amongst others.
With this substantial experience Aarti is able to quickly navigate through an organisation to identify where R&D eligibility lies within the business. On many occasions this experience has led to a substantial increase in original claims submitted.
Additionally, with her External Audit background, she works closely with client finance teams to understand their reporting systems to develop efficient claim methodologies and in securing these with HMRC for future claims preparation.
“I have worked with Aarti for many years on the OneSubsea UK R&D claims. Aarti worked closely with me and our finance teams to break down complex data sets to derive high quality data for the claims. Aarti has strong knowledge of the R&D Tax regime as well as strong project management skills which is really important to deliver high quality, robust claims, efficiently for an organisation of this size. I would highly recommend Aarti for high quality, professional advice and service for anyone wanting to make R&D claims and it has always been a pleasure working with her and her team.”
“I worked with Aarti on the Schneider R&D claims. She helped the project run more efficiently, was extremely professional and knowledgeable, helping us to identify more than 8% of additional qualifying expenditure than the previous year’s claim. Highly recommend!”
Thank you Aarti!
The world of R&D grants is one that we didn’t have time to fully understand on our own at Geolytix and I’m so pleased we chose Aarti to be our specialist support. Her calm personality and unbelievable knowledge in the area suddenly makes the scary unknown world of HMRC grants an OK place.
Aarti ensured she fully understood our research and development, and that we fully understood what HMRC class as R&D – and also expertly guided us through all the documentation and audit trails that we require.
We are set up for the future. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend – Aarti is brilliant value for money and an investment worth making.
We have changed from a Big 4 adviser because you invest your time into our business to fully explore and capture R&D eligibility. You are also very approachable as well as knowledgeable.
Very competent and managed our claims process very efficiently.
We followed a template used by our previous advisers for many years, significantly underclaiming. May long this relationship last!