MJA Updates
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...
As we rapidly head towards the closing date for submissions in respect of the current Review of the R&D Tax Incentive (the Review), it is high time we supply this third and final instalment of the MJA...
And no, this MJA Update is not a review of Weird Al Yankovic’s Star Wars parody of Don McLean’s American Pie entitled “The saga begins”, nor is it a critique of an American soap opera, it is in fact a direct...
The R&D Tax Incentive Review (the Review) has been on the road this week with a series of briefing sessions conducted by AusIndustry around Australia. It is an interesting move as the Review contains...
The recent release of the R&D Tax Incentive Review (the Review) has again seen the R&D Tax Incentive (the Incentive) hit the headlines and, as usual, for a mixture of the right and wrong reasons. The...
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,...
Just before midnight last night, the Senate voted to approve the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016. As you will recall from an earlier MJA Update, this Bill included a 1.5% rate cut to the R&D tax...
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