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Strategic Examination of Research and Development: Swanson Reed comments on issues paper released on R&D Tax Incentives
September 24th, 2025In the May 2024 federal budget, The Albanese Government announced a strategic examination and review of Australia’s Research and Development (R&D) system to align it with national priorities and to improve outcomes. In late 2024, then Industry Minister Ed Husic announced specific details to launch the review. It was noted that the review will assess how to maximise the value of R&D investments, strengthen industry linkages, and support national priorities, and that the review will examine existing systems, such as […]
R&D Tax Policy Discussions Leading into The Government’s Productivity Roundtable
July 29th, 2025Treasurer 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 […]
A warning for companies using AI to assist with drafting their R&D Tax Incentive Applications
July 3rd, 2025Businesses 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 […]
The Australian Industry Group Submission to Strategic Examination of the R&D System
June 19th, 2025The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group®) is a peak national employer organisation representing traditional, innovative and emerging industry sectors. Ai Group is considered one of the leading business advocacy organisations in Australia. Ai Group has recently published their submission to The Australian Government’s strategic examination of the research and development (R&D) system. The Ai Group submission includes some notable points on the R&D Tax Incentive including: A note that tax incentives and grants are valuable, however they can require a high level of administrative resources; […]
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News & ResearchThe Federal Budget handed down on 12 May 2026, The Government proposed major structural changes to the R&D Tax Incentive (RDTI). These changes are proposed to commence on 1 July 2028. Proposed reforms include: Increasing the offset for experimental ‘core’ […]
Law now passed to exclude tobacco and gambling activities from eligibility under R&D Tax Incentive
The December 2024 Mid‑Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) was released by the Government on 18 December 2024 and announced that The Government will exclude activities related to gambling and tobacco from Research and Development Tax Incentive eligibility for income years starting on […]
