In this final “Budget Special” MJA Update, we look at the integrity measures that were announced last Tuesday night. The Government has acknowledged that the majority of taxpayers do the right thing but it contends that some claimants, spread across all industry sectors, have engaged in behaviour such as incorrect self-assessment of eligible R&D activities, exaggerating their expenditure claims, "pushing…
In yesterday’s MJA Update, we focused on the announced changes to the Non-Refundable R&D Tax Offset based on an R&D Intensity measure. The market in the past 48 hours has indicated strongly that these changes are not welcomed (once it was able to unravel the complex detail), particularly as the base rate of tax benefit offered (4%) sets a new world…
All Budgets need to crack down on areas of concern to help pay for things like income tax cuts and the like. Reading last night’s Budget Papers, it seems like the three areas where the Federal Government needed to act were the age old enemies of illicit tobacco, cash-in-hand payments (ie. the Black Economy) and the R&D Tax Incentive (the…
The 2018 Budget has announced a series of changes to the R&D Tax Incentive that are intended to come into effect on 1 July 2018. In summary, the concern that some companies would be excluded from the program all together has not been realised. The changes see the R&D Tax Offset rates linked to matters such as prevailing company tax…
Recent media reports suggest that next week's Federal Budget will introduce an intensity measure that will restrict access to the Non-Refundable R&D Tax Incentive to those company groups whose R&D intensity (group R&D expenditure divided by group total business expenses) exceeds a certain percentage. The figure mooted is 1%. There is no detail available around the proposal. The Triple F…
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