The freshly appointed Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, recently held a press conference with Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, regarding the National Science and Research Priorities and the proposed National Reconstruction Fund, which the Labor Government are seeking to pass through the parliament. During this conference Ed Husic was quoted as stating: The amount that we invest in R&D in this country relative to the OECD, we have about 1.8 per cent relative to GDP investment in R&D […]
The previous Coalition Federal Government had first announced that it planned to introduce a patent box tax incentive for eligible income associated with new patents in the medical and biotechnology sectors in the May 2021 federal budget. The legislation to enact this was introduced to the lower house in February 2022 (with a proposed start date of July 2022), but was not passed as law before the federal election. There is now a new Labor Government following the federal election and in […]
The Productivity Commission is the Australian Government’s independent research and advisory body on a range of economic, social and environmental issues affecting the welfare of Australians. It states its role is to help governments make better policies, in the long term interest of the Australian community. In early August 2022, The Productivity Commission published its annual review of trade and assistance which it notes is to keep a record of assistance. Some notable extracts from The Productivity Commission annual review relevant […]
Going into the federal election held on 21 May 2022, it was not expected that the R&D Tax Incentive was to be impacted (in the short term at least), and there were not any announcements during the campaign that have been R&D tax specific. This was so, since recent legislative amendments to the R&D Tax Incentive had only recently commenced after the October 2020 bi-partisan enactment of the underlying law, and it would be unlikely for further change to happen […]