ATO Guidance and Materials

New AusIndustry Guidance released to assist R&D applicants

December 5th, 2016

AusIndustry have recently released new guidance material to help companies and tax advisors correctly identify and register for the R&D Tax Incentive in the fields of software development, agriculture, building, construction, and mining. This guidance material includes specific examples and information on AusIndustry’s expectations for participants registering activities under the R&D Tax Incentive in these fields. The four new Specific Issues Guidance documents are: Getting software development R&D Tax Incentive claims right Getting building and construction R&D Tax Incentive claims right Getting mining R&D Tax Incentive claims right Getting farming R&D […]

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R&D Tax – Important 30 June Planning for Companies

June 23rd, 2016

The following R&D tax claim information will apply to companies that: have recently submitted a 2015 R&D claim; and intend to submit a 2016 R&D Claim. Upcoming AusIndustry Compliance Activity Over the next few months, AusIndustry will likely start compliance activity for FY15 applications that were lodged around the April 30 deadline. If reviewed, companies claiming the R&D Tax Incentive must substantiate to AusIndustry that: the registered activities occurred; and the claimed activities were in accordance with the R&D Tax legislation. […]

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ATO Issues Warning on R&D Claims for Farming Activities

October 22nd, 2015

The Australian Tax Office and AusIndustry have issued guidance to alert companies against claiming the R&D tax incentive for business-as-usual farming activities. Expanding on this, ATO Deputy Commissioner Tim Dyce said that usual business expenditure is normally not eligible under the incentive and the law contains a number of requirements which must be satisfied in order for activities to be accepted. He further explains, “we’re seeing farmers applying soil treatments across their property, in some case thousands of hectares, which […]

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ATO ID 2015/5 Research and Development: Disposal of research & development results and future payments

February 17th, 2015

Does the disposal of research and development (R&D) results provision in section 355-410 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997) include amounts from the licensing of intellectual property (IP) payable in the future, subject to achieving future development and sales milestones? Yes. The disposal of R&D results provision in section 355-410 of the ITAA 1997 includes amounts from the licensing of IP payable in the future. These include future payments that are referrable to future development of the IP and […]

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