The Department of Finance Canada recently released its Report on Federal Tax Expenditures – Concepts, Estimates and Evaluations 2018, which shows increased spending on the SR&ED tax incentive program. In a reversal from last year’s projected downward trend, this year’s report forecasts upward growth. A comparison between the 2017 version Read more…
Last March, the Department of Finance Canada released its 2018 Report on Federal Tax Expenditures. In previous years, the projected figures of the federal government’s revenue being spent on the SR&ED tax credit had been declining. What does this year’s report say? If you compare the Report on Federal Tax Read more…
The last time that a major report came out offering recommendations to the SR&ED program, the effect was profound. In 2011, Innovation Canada: A Call to Action – colloquially known as the Jenkins Report was released. One of the recommendations was to modify the SR&ED process to help small businesses Read more…
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) search for external SR&ED consultants to assist with SR&ED claims. In early 2018 the CRA posted a notice on buyandsell.gc.ca that the agency is “seeking to establish a supply arrangement to maintain a list of pre-qualified consultants … on an ‘as and when requested’ basis, authorized Read more…
SR&ED Education and Resources analyzed what was published regarding annual SR&ED spend by the federal governments in the CRA’s Reports to Parliament and Departmental Performance Reports. What were the results? In prior reports, we analyzed the annual spend on the SR&ED program in the federal government’s CRA Reports to Parliament and Read more…