Home » News » June 2024

June, 2024

Important R&D Tax associate entity payment rule considerations approaching end of the financial year

June 20th, 2024

The R&D Tax Incentive, includes a related party integrity provision whereby if a company incurs R&D expenditure to an associate, it must pay that amount in the same year to claim a notional deduction for that amount in that year (provided all other eligibility requirements for the R&D tax incentive are met). Associates are those entities that, by reason of family or business connections, might appropriately be regarded as being associates of the R&D entity, and relevant examples of the […]

Read More

Swanson Reed Article on Recent ATO Alerts (TA 2023/4 and TA 2023/5) in June 2024 Tax Institute Journal

June 14th, 2024

A feature article authored by Swanson Reed is included in June 2024 volume of the Taxation in Australia. Swanson Reed’s article covers the recent R&D tax incentive taxpayer alerts released in December 2023 (TA 2023/4 and TA 2023/5).   These alerts primarily relate to whether entities registering R&D activities and claiming R&D tax offsets can be shown to be the entity for whom the registered R&D activities are conducted, as required by law. TA 2023/4 and TA 2023/5 indicate that the […]

Read More

Deadline approaching for lodgement of Overseas Findings for R&D Activity first conducted in FY24

June 10th, 2024

Companies seeking to claim expenditure for overseas activity incurred by an Australian company under the R&D Tax Incentive must apply separately to claim these costs by first lodging an Overseas Finding Application with AusIndustry. In addition to general eligibility criteria, there are specific and extensive rules to determine whether expenditure on overseas activities is eligible under the R&D Tax Incentive. Generally, expenditure incurred by Australian companies on R&D activities conducted overseas can only be eligible for the R&D Tax Incentive where: The […]

Read More

Another case involving Moreton Resources Ltd

June 10th, 2024

Moreton Resources Ltd (currently under external administration per ASIC records) has been involved in several cases heard in the AAT and federal court regarding disputes over the company’s significate refundable R&D Tax Offset claims. Moreton Resources Ltd has also been one of the few companies to have attained a favourable outcome in a dispute with the R&D Tax regulators in recent years. The company has been involved in new AAT case recently (Moreton Resources Ltd and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2024] AATA […]

Read More

Categories

Archives