Leading up to the 2022 federal election, the (then) Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese pledged in early 2022 that he would use Labor’s proposed $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund to make medical technology and local manufacturing investments a top priority. Labor went on to win the election, and are now looking at legislative measures to enact the fund. The National Reconstruction Fund proposes a financing vehicle to specifically drive investment in projects seeking to build prosperity across the country, providing loans, […]
The new Labor Government has handed down their first budget in October 2022. Leading into this budget, there was not anticipated to be any changes proposed to the R&D Tax Incentive, since the previously announced changes for FY22 had only recently been legislated by the previous Coalition government, and were passed with support from the (then) Labor Opposition. Based on a preliminary review of the October 2022 budget material, no material changes seem to have been proposed to […]
Leading into the May 2021 and March 2022 budgets, there were no anticipated changes proposed to the R&D Tax Incentive, since the previously announced changes for FY22 had only recently been legislated and commenced. Based on a preliminary review of the 2022 budget material, no material changes seem to have been proposed to the R&D Tax Incentive, which, after a tumultuous period over the past decade, is good news! Interestingly, in the 2022 budget papers for the Industry, Science, Energy […]
The 2022 Federal Budget is due to be held in March 2022, which is earlier than the usual May timing, due to this year’s election. In the belated federal budget handed down in October 2020 (delayed due to COVID), reforms to the R&D Tax Incentive were a centrepiece. Leading up to the 2020 budget, the government was proposing substantial changes to the R&D Tax Incentive which were aimed at reducing the cost of the programme, but that had not yet […]