Navigating the Tax Landscape to unlock cash in food & drink manufacturing
28 November 2024
This webinar provides practical guidance from industry experts at Grant Thornton on how food and drink manufacturers can navigate the tax landscape to unlock cash. The webinar explores the following:
- “What is Food” when it comes to VAT and how you can save on your VAT bill, whether you are an SME or a large multinational
- The opportunities to benefit from the R&D Tax incentives and areas manufacturers are overlooking
- Reducing the after-tax cost of capital investment
For further information, please find the speakers email addresses below.
Topics
- Wages
- Employment
- Productivity
Speakers
Dan Rice - Dan is a VAT Director and Grant Thornton’s Head of Food & Drink. He has specialised in VAT for 15 years, and has spent most of that time looking at the VAT treatment of food and drink products, both in the UK and the rest of the world. Dan has worked with hundreds of businesses in the sector, and secured VAT zero-rating on nearly 200 different products that had historically been standard rated.
Oskar Augustynowicz - Oskar is a VAT Manager and has been working at Grant Thornton since 2019. Oskar has been involved in dozens of projects dealing with the VAT treatment of a wide range of products from the Food & Drinks sector, delivering high-quality work which has resulted in many millions of pounds of VAT savings for Grant Thornton’s clients. Oskar can often be found sampling anything from kombucha to cabbage water in the hunt for interesting food products.
Stephen Foster – Stephen in his capital allowances role has advised many clients in the food manufacturing sector on various expansion and new build projects, including Albert Bartlett, Kettle Produce, Stateside Foods, Portion Solutions, Ian Macleod Distillers, Scottish Sea Farms, Gordon & MacPhail and Edrington.
Matthew Foulger - Matt is a Director in the National Innovation Tax Team, based in Manchester. Matt has over 10 years of tax experience, spending the last 9 supporting companies making robust and fully optimised R&D tax claims. Matt leads nationally on food and beverage and also has a specific focus on engineering and technology businesses. Day-to-day, Matt has an oversight role and is responsible for ensuring the quality of R&D services to our clients, specifically overseeing the end-to-end costings and technical reports, in conjunction with his colleagues.
Lucy Mackenzie - Lucy is a Manager based in Edinburgh, with many years’ experience with R&D tax claims, having previously worked at a Big Four firm. Lucy has a chemical engineering background and worked as a project engineer for a number of years. Due to her industry experience, Lucy specialises in claims across F&B, manufacturing, engineering and energy sectors.