ATO Guidance and Materials

New AAT Case re: R&D Entity Claiming Overseas Moulds/Assembly etc. Without an Overseas Finding

November 4th, 2022

A new AAT decision handed down in October 2022 (T.D.S BIZ PTY LTD and Commissioner of Taxation) considered the case of an R&D Entity attempting to claim the cost of overseas moulds, fabrication, CAD and assembly within their R&D Tax Incentive claim without having first attained an Overseas Finding from AusIndustry. This is one of the only administrative decisions to consider the specific issue of: Is R&D expenditure related to the cost of components for conducting R&D activity in Australia; […]

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ATO and AusIndustry R&D Tax Incentive Presentations in Coming Months

September 19th, 2022

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and AusIndustry have advised that they will host a series of online sessions for stakeholders seeking to learn more about the R&D Tax Incentive. The sessions aim to provide an introduction to the R&D Tax Incentive and guidance on key eligibility requirements. The sessions are being held online in October and November and registration details are available on business.gov.au. Get in touch with our office if you would like to speak to someone about a potential  […]

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ATO Update 2022 R&D Schedule Instructions

September 12th, 2022

R&D Claims for the YE 30 June 2022 involve a number of changes from prior years, reflective of the legislative amendments arising in the October 2020 budget. These amendments change the mechanisms for calculation and reporting of R&D Tax offsets to the ATO, which also presents the need for corresponding changes in the company tax return. In late May 2022, the ATO released its Research and development tax incentive schedule 2022 (NAT 73794), with corresponding changes to the labels within. […]

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FY22 R&D Registrations Now Open

July 1st, 2022

Companies are now able to register R&D activities conducted during the year ended 30 June 2022 (FY22) with AusIndustry. For the FY22 period, the application process is again administered through the new online customer portal which was introduced for the prior FY21 period. There were substantial changes made to the R&D activity technical description requirements in FY21, however the AusIndustry activity disclosure requirements for FY22 appear not to have materially changed. The big changes for FY22 R&D c laims relate […]

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