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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...
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...
The remarks of the Treasurer, Scott Morrison, about the R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive) reported in today's Australian Financial Review have focused attention on the program's future after a long hiatus...
Today’s release by Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) of its report, “Australia 2030 Prosperity through Innovation”, sees the ISA take three key positions about the R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive)...
It has to be said that it’s been a tough couple of years for the R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive). For what is meant to be available to the market as a planning tool, it’s taken a number of hits that...
The Review of the R&D Tax Incentive Report has just been released. The report has been co-authored by Mr Bill Ferris AC, Chair, Innovation Australia, Dr Alan Finkel AO, Chief Scientist and Mr John Fraser,...
The R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive) launched in its present form in the middle of 2011. Since that time, Australia’s Business Expenditure on Research & Development (BERD) has been rising steadily,...
The recent release of a series of ATO Taxpayer Alerts with respect to the R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive) (including a revised version of the software development alert published last Friday) comes on...
Recently, we had the pleasure of listening to two podcasts from the American program, Freakonomics, entitled “In Praise Of Maintenance” and “In Praise Of Incrementalism”. Each show was highlighting the...
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