Why We’re Different

Why Hike With a Professional Trail Guide?

The purpose of a trail guide is to ensure a safe, enjoyable journey on a path that would otherwise provide many challenges and uncertainties. For more than 20 years, Hull & Knarr has been the Tax Credits and Incentives Trail Guide to countless accounting firms, tax providers, and companies ranging in size from start-ups all the way up to Fortune 500 industry heavyweights.

Tax Credits and Incentives provide a financial benefit for qualifying companies, but can only be maximized and made audit compliant through the right guidance and expertise. Our Trail Guides don’t just give you the map for navigating the complex financial terrain, we prepare and guide you through every step along the way, ensuring a safe and successful journey.

We are not an accounting firm. Our team is led by a group of industry veterans that are degreed engineers, CPAs, and tax professionals whose expertise awards our partners and clients the peace of mind they seek out in an otherwise challenging landscape.

Did you know the IRS uses degreed engineers to audit Tax Credits and Incentives?

Here’s how it all started: Hull & Knarr was founded on the principle that there are more effective ways to help companies grow. Working for an accounting firm early in his career, Hull & Knarr founder David M. Hull was tasked with searching for other revenue streams for his employer when he came across the R&D Tax Credit.

Growing up in the family electroplating business as a non-degreed engineer, David discovered the R&D Tax Credit was an engineering function – not an accounting function – and that engineers would be more qualified to identify R&D activities and reclass building components in Cost Segregation. David made his pitch, but the decision was made to use accountants rather than hire engineers to perform the studies.

Because of his conviction, our chief investigators have been experienced, degreed engineers since 2001.

Why use an engineering-based approach?

Mitigate Risk – Hull & Knarr has sustained over 98% of the dollars claimed over hundreds of federal and state audits.
Maximize Amounts – Our engineers have routinely identified more credits, deductions, and incentives for clients.
Minimize Disruptions – Our engineers already communicate in your Subject Matter Experts’ language, so our process allows you to stay focused on your business.