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Creative Tax Consultancy Fees, Prices & Costs in the UK :

UK Creative Tax Credits Industry Pricing

We understand the importance of knowing you’re getting a good deal.

Knowing the typical pricing structures and core services of creative sector tax advisers will help you make an informed decision.

Creative Tax Consultancy Fees, Prices & Costs in the UK
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Our Creative Tax Consultancy Pricing Insights

Creative sector tax incentives offer crucial support to the UK’s arts and culture sector, including film, TV, video games, orchestras, museums, galleries and theatres. However, claiming creative tax reliefs has specific requirements beyond standard accounting.

Many claimants choose to get support from specialist tax advisers for the creative sector. But making informed, value-based decisions needs an industry baseline.

Our pricing insights are based on client feedback, proposal comparisons and anonymised fee data gathered from across the UK tax consultancy sector.

Industry Fees and Pricing Structures

Fee Model Typical Range / Example Key Observations
Percentage Fee 15-25% Minimal up front costs, if any. Percentage fees scale with your claim.
Time-Based (Hourly Rate) Small Accountancy Practices: £125 – £250 / hour

Mid-Tier Firms: £250 – £450 / hour

Major International Firms: £400 – £750 / hour		 Time-based billing provides visibility over hours worked and is useful when minimal guidance is required. Large or complex productions can face unpredictable bills if advisory time escalates.
Fixed Project Fee £10,000 – £50,000 + Offers upfront cost certainty and incentivises an adviser to be efficient. Key services like HMRC enquiry defence may be excluded.
Minimum Fees £4,000 – £10,000 + Most firms apply a minimum engagement fee, even for smaller or single-production claims, which can make modest projects uneconomical.

Range of Creative Sector Tax Services Offered

While scope varies, most providers include the following key services:

Eligibility & Scoping

  • Assess qualifying expenditure and determine eligibility under AVEC, VGEC, or tax reliefs such as TTR, OTR and MGETR.
  • Review production activities, cultural tests, and corporate structure.

Financial Analysis

  • Review the production budget to identify qualifying expenditure and categorise costs in line with HMRC requirements, distinguishing between core and non-core expenditure.
  • Detailed cost analysis to identify eligible and ineligible costs to ensure full compliance and accuracy.

Documentation & Submission

  • Prepare or review the Additional Information Form (AIF) and supporting cost schedules.
  • Assist with cultural certification with BFI and prepare the CT600 submission split by production (trade).

HMRC Support

  • Handle correspondence during any compliance check.
  • Provide evidence and defend the claim through to resolution.
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Average vs Best-in-Class Creative Tax Advisers

Aspect Average Creative Tax Adviser Best-in-Class Creative Tax Adviser
Team Expertise Generalist accountants with limited production or creative sector experience. Employs specialist creative tax advisers with expertise across AVEC, VGEC, OTR, TTR and MGETR regimes, and practical experience in production accounting, cultural certification and separate-trade reporting.
Technical Engagement Relies on templates and limited client input. Works closely with producers and finance teams to ensure claims accurately reflect production structures, cost apportionment, and core vs non-core expenditure.
Compliance Assurance Basic understanding of BFI certification rules and HMRC creative industry guidance. Delivers comprehensive compliance reviews aligned with the latest HMRC and BFI requirements, ensuring each production meets both tax and cultural test obligations.
Financial Structuring Insight Focuses solely on claim preparation without addressing production-level tax issues. Advises on group and production structuring, including separate-trade accounting, inter-company recharges and solutions for trapped or unrelieved losses.
HMRC Enquiry Support Support is minimal or charged separately if HMRC raises questions. Defends claims at no additional cost, representing clients throughout any HMRC compliance check or enquiry.

Aligning Fees with Value

At Myriad, we believe your advisory fees should be directly linked to the success and value of your claim.

Our value-linked approach ensures that fees remain fair and proportionate to the benefit achieved, not the number of hours billed.

It gives producers and finance teams clarity, confidence, and control, knowing exactly what’s included, what it costs, and that our incentives are fully aligned with yours.

Myriad's Prices

Myriad is the only creative tax incentives specialist that publishes its prices and services. We believe in being upfront and transparent about our fees.

Myriad's Creative Tax Pricing

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