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July, 2025

R&D Tax Policy Discussions Leading into The Government’s Productivity Roundtable

July 29th, 2025

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will convene The Government’s Economic Reform Roundtable in Canberra from 19–21 August 2025 with a focus on enhancing Australia’s lagging productivity. The Roundtable will occur at a time whilst a Strategic Examination and Review of Australia’s R&D system (led by Robyn Denholm) is underway and possibly due to report later in the year. Recent media coverage has suggested that businesses may be looking to discuss the R&D Tax Incentive at the August Roundtable: The AFR has recently reported: Big […]

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DISR Announces Changes Streamlining R&D Activity Compliance Assessment Processes

July 15th, 2025

In a recent update, The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR)’s Insider email has noted that: From 1 July 2025, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) will be streamlining some of our processes to remove duplication and unnecessary steps that can cause confusion and contribute to delays in finalising program decisions with you.  Recent feedback from you as well as decisions from the Administrative Review Tribunal have highlighted that some of our processes can be confusing. Much of this […]

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A warning for companies using AI to assist with drafting their R&D Tax Incentive Applications

July 3rd, 2025

Businesses are increasingly leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline various tasks in a bid to achieve significant time savings and efficiency gains. However, when using AI to assist in the drafting of documents that present legal obligations (such as an R&D Application), care should be taken to ensure the information disclosed is correct. In recent months, we have observed a growing trend of companies using AI to assist with the collation of the initial draft content for their Research and […]

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FY25 R&D Activity Registrations Now Open and Upcoming Changes to the R&D Application Form

July 1st, 2025

Companies are now able to register R&D Activities conducted during the year ended 30 June 2025 (FY25) with AusIndustry. For the FY25 period, the application process is again administered through the online AusIndustry customer portal which was introduced for the prior FY21 period. AusIndustry has announced recently that there will be a new R&D Registration form released in August 2025. The Announcement was as follows: On 15 August 2025, an updated version of the R&D Tax Incentive (R&DTI) registration application […]

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