Tax Incentives For Businesses on R & D
Are you aware of R & D tax incentives that can help drive innovation and value for your business? If your business engages in activities designed to improve a product or service that you take to market, you may be eligible for lucrative cash refunds for expenditure on core and supporting R & D activities. We have compiled the below tips for ensuring you don’t miss out on these potential tax benefits.
- Increased cash refunds for smaller companies in a tax-payable position may be eligible R&D expenditure strengthening the business case for claiming eligible R&D activities;
- The Australian R&D tax regime covers the full spectrum of R&D activities that may be overlooked as they are sometimes ‘business as usual’ from a commercial perspective. Pure research, applied research and experimental development are activities covered in the regime, refer to the AusIndustry eligibility guide here;
- Expenditure that supports R&D activity including direct and indirect costs incurred throughout the life of a project may also be eligible;
- Relaxed rules relating to software development R&D claims and international arrangements, as well as subsequent intellectual property (IP) being held offshore which may result in benefits for software development companies, as well as Australian subsidiaries carrying out contract R&D on behalf of an international parent company.
For more information, please contact our team to discuss how you may be able to take advantage of R&D incentives.
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