http://mjassociates.com.au R&D tax credit and concesssion expert consultants - Australia's leading independent consultants Wed, 13 May 2009 11:14:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might also be interested in Kris Gale's first hand account of the Innovation Policy announcements as part of the budget. The audio player below will stream the 6:43 audio file. [audio:http://mjassociates.com.au/audio/kris-gale-interview.mp3] Please feel free to give us any feedback you have by posting a comment below. http://mjassociates.com.au/mja-update/budget-2009-interview-with-kris-gale/ R&D tax credits to offer higher rates of benefit to broader range of companies MJA's Managing Director, Kris Gale, was invited to attend a budget lock down hosted by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr and the Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson. The highlight was ... http://mjassociates.com.au/mja-update/budget-2009-innovation-policy-announced/ MJA's managing director, Kris Gale, will be attending the 2009 Federal Budget innovation briefing, at the invitation of the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. We will bring you news of the highlights (and any lowlights) as they relate specifically to innovation policy, R&D tax concessions (or credits), grant funding ... http://mjassociates.com.au/innovation-policy/innovation-commentary-on-2009-budget/ 30 April 2009 is the final date to apply for registration with Innovation Australia for R&D activities undertaken in the year ended 30 June 2008. Each company has 10 months after the end of its financial year to apply for registration under the R&D tax concession (or offset) for the R&D ... http://mjassociates.com.au/key-date-alert/30-april-2009-rd-tax-registration-deadline/ An update on the Whole of Mine issue from the last MJA Update: both the Minerals Council of Australia and the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) have included this issue in their pre-budget submissions. Minerals Council of Australia submission AusIMM pre-budget submission Both of these submissions provide very good reasoning on ... http://mjassociates.com.au/mja-update/update-on-whole-of-mine-rd-tax-issue/ Just published a piece on the excellent Hargraves Conference 2009 over at Innovation is Industry Policy. There's an outline of the presenters, a photo of Kris Gale and the slide deck from my presentation on Day Two. http://mjassociates.com.au/innovation-policy/new-blog-post-venturous-australia-what-now-hargraves-conference-2009/ The floor of the United Nations General Assembly buzzes with the languages of its 192 member states. Yet, as each representative rises to speak in their native tongue, they are confident that what they say will be faithfully interpreted to the balance of the assembly. They understand that a verbatim translation ... http://mjassociates.com.au/mja-update/why-whole-of-mine-fails-the-interpretation-test/ R&D Plan Consultation In the last working week of 2008 we received draft guidelines for R&D planning from AusIndustry for discussion. R&D planning has been a requirement of the R&D tax concession since 2001 and is actually part of the definition of R&D activities in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936. There ... http://mjassociates.com.au/mja-update/proposed-rd-planning-changes-good-for-government-bad-for-business/ New blog post written on Innovation is Industry Policy. It looks like the first round of $27.7m of grants for Climate Ready projects has spent more than one third of the four year budget allocation. Perhaps we can expect more money from government on this program as part of the Venturous ... http://mjassociates.com.au/innovation-policy/new-blog-post-climate-ready-first-round-offers-are-out/ It's from last century, I know, but sometimes searchers arrive here looking for it. So, here it is! Enjoy. [caption id="attachment_246" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="MJA Submission"][/caption] http://mjassociates.com.au/innovation-policy/mjas-innovation-summit-submission/