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 […]
SR Tax Services Pty Ltd (trading as Swanson Reed) is a registered tax agent (Registration number 03718008). The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) is the authority responsible for regulating Australia’s tax agents. The Government package of reforms to strengthen the integrity of Australia’s tax system has presented additional compliance and disclosure requirements for tax agents which apply to Swanson Reed from July 2025. As part of these reforms, Swanson Reed has an obligation to keep parties informed on a […]
A recent article on InnovationAus.com has covered Australian Industry Group’s (AiGroup) latest Key Industry Indicators numbers, showing that the economy slowed across 2024, and is now in the longest period of low growth since the 1991 recession. AiGroup’s Key Industry Indicators data reveals that the broader economy has seen its longest period of slow growth since the 1991 recession, but manufacturing has been hit hardest, entering a recession, with output contracting at a 1.7% per annum rate in the second […]
Business R&D and Innovation Policy settings were not focal point of the recent federal election, which was fought primarily on cost of living. The unsuccessful Opposition Coalition had announced in the lead up to the election that their policies included: Savings by: Scrapping the Future Made in Australia (FMiA) agenda, including tax credits for green hydrogen and critical minerals processing; Winding back the National Reconstruction Fund; Unwinding the expansion of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency that supports pre-commercial innovation in […]