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AusIndustry Information Sessions in September 2024

September 9th, 2024

AusIndustry have announced they will be conducting a R&D Tax Incentive Registration webinar on Wednesday, 11 September. This webinar is aimed at small to medium businesses that already have a basic understanding of the R&D Tax Incentive program and notes that it will cover: How the registration process works; The types of information to include in your application; The importance of record keeping and the types of evidence you need to keep. Information for registration to attend the session is […]

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Recent AusIndustry explanations on registration processing timeframes

September 2nd, 2024

This time of year (shortly after financial year end) companies can often be eager to receive their R&D Registration notices to facilitate lodgement of R&D Claims within their company tax returns. This is particularly so for SME tax loss companies who may be seeking to receive Refundable R&D Tax Offsets within their tax returns. In a recent update, AusIndustry has commented on factors which impact registration processing times. The update noted: There are several factors which may impact the time it […]

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AusIndustry Publishes New Hypothetical Machine Learning Case Study.

August 26th, 2024

AusIndustry have recently published a case study to provide practical examples for eligibility of activities involving machine learning.    It’s probable that this guidance has been in response to a rising number of claims involving AI and ML type activities.   The examples in the case studies will assist R&D entities identify when they might have eligible R&D activities, and what information is relevant for assessing and showing eligibility.   In an earlier Swanson Reed blog post in recent weeks (titled: Assessment of AI related activities […]

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ATO’s First R&D Tax Incentive (R&D TI) Transparency Report

August 19th, 2024

The ATO have provided some additional details on their upcoming R&D Tax Incentive transparency reporting. An ATO update circulated August 2024 notes: We’ll publish our first annual Report of data about Research and Development tax incentive entities in late September 2024. It will contain specific data about R&D entities that claimed the incentive for the 2021–22 income year. By providing transparency of how much R&D entities are reporting in R&D expenditure, the aim of the report is to improve public accountability […]

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