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What Are the Ineligible Expenses & Expenditures Pertaining to the R&D Tax Incentive?

February 15th, 2016

If you are a firm who uses technology as a foundation for creating new or improved products or services – and the development involves investing in a degree of experimentation or prototyping – there’s a high likelihood you may be eligible for the R&D Tax Incentive. However, the fact remains that there is still quite a bit of confusion around what can and cannot be claimed. In one of our previous posts, we discussed what the ‘non core’ R&D Tax Incentive activities […]

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How Does Australia’s R&D Tax Incentive Compare to the Rest of the World?

February 11th, 2016

Internationally, governments are increasing indirect support for business R&D, particularly by the way of tax incentives. For instance, by 2011 almost 80 per cent of OECD countries had some form of R&D tax incentive in place. Hence, in a globally mobile business world, R&D investment is considered to be a key factor in enhancing skills, jobs and economic growth. Governments around the globe have and continue to increasingly recognise the attraction of tax benefits to encourage companies to invest in high-value, knowledge […]

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R&D Tax Incentive Review Issues Paper Now Available

February 11th, 2016

In 2015-16, the Government is investing approximately $9.7 billion in research and development (R&D). Notably, around $3.2 billion of this amount specifically funds the business sector R&D. In launching the National Innovation and Science Agenda last year, the Australian Government announced that they would be undertaking a review of the R&D Tax Incentive programme to make it better accessible to the business sector. Accordingly, the review of the R&D Tax Incentive will identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and integrity […]

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What are Non Core R&D Tax Incentive Activities?

February 10th, 2016

Indeed, the research and development (R&D) tax incentive can cause confusion when determining what can and cannot be claimed. This is particularly the case for what activities actually qualify for the incentive (core activities), and which ones do not (non core). In our latest blog, we described that core R&D activities are essentially the experimental undertakings conducted to generate new knowledge (The R&D Tax Incentive: Glossary of Frequently Used Terms). However, what exactly is considered non core R&D activities when pertaining […]

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