Ben is one of our senior sector specialists leading the Engineering team. He conducts the technical interviews with product developers, software developers and manufacturing clients to ensure the details of their work is understood and all areas that have potential to claim a tax credit through the R&D scheme are identified. During his career at Wilby Jones, Ben has been involved in over 250 R&D claims and helped businesses claim across a range of industries. Over the course of the last year, his engineering team claimed over £6 million for our clients and aim to always deliver high quality tax advice. Before starting work at Wilby Jones, Ben gained a first-class honours degree from the University of Lincoln, with his dissertation focusing on computational traffic flow analysis. Having joined our graduate scheme in 2020, he is now an ATT qualified tax advisor and aims to complete the ATT/CTA pathway to become a full chartered tax advisor within the next year. He enjoys the variety of the work undertaken by each of his clients, and learning about new concepts directly from the professionals researching them and innovating within their industry every day. Whether talking to aerospace professionals or nuclear engineers, there is always something new to learn and it is exciting to see the trends across all industries appear during conversations with clients. A keen guitarist, Ben teaches in the Norfolk area and has played for the last 18 years – Look out for him playing in several local bands around the city.
Blog Post by Ben Thompson
