Partner-Led Tax Advisory for Innovators & Industry Disruptors
Empowering innovation with specialist tax advice, driven by deep sector insight and delivered with clarity and confidence.
Our Firm
Westlock Partners is a specialist management consultancy dedicated to empowering growth and innovation across the heart of the UK economy, SMEs. We support clients across a range of sectors, including Aerospace & Defence, Software & Technology, and Architecture & Engineering.
Our approach is, and will always remain, partner-led. That means every engagement is led by a suitably qualified and experienced partner, who remains your direct point of contact throughout. This ensures our clients benefit from senior oversight, clear accountability, and advice grounded in deep technical and commercial understanding.
Our Vision
Our vision is to be the trusted, go-to advisor for ambitious businesses across multiple industries and stages of growth, helping them to achieve their full potential within both the letter and the spirit of the law.
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Practical guidance - built for clarity, accuracy and confident filing.
Short, technical notes on common R&D friction points, written for CFOs, Finance teams and Technical leads who want a compliant, defence-first approach.
First merged-scheme claim: the 8 things to get right
Filing your first claim under the merged scheme? These are the eight areas we see driving delays, rework, or avoidable risk, and how to lock them down early.
Presenting the credit: common processing delays (and how to avoid)
A surprisingly common cause of processing delays is simply how the credit is shown in the accounts and computation. Here’s the clean, low-friction presentation we recommend.
Subcontractors / EPWs / overseas work: what typically trips claims up
Most “problem claims” aren’t about whether the work is innovative — they’re about who did it, where it was done, and how it’s evidenced. This note covers the usual pitfalls.