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You could recoup up to 64% of eligible employee costs, up to 42% of material costs and up to 33% of sub-contractor costs.
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Businesses performing R&D efforts domestically in Canada are encouraged to do so by the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program. Through this scheme, firms can obtain tax credits for legitimate expenses associated with R&D...
T4 LABOUR EXPENSES The wages and salaries given to workers who are directly engaged in completing R&D work that qualifies for the SR&ED program are included in T4 labour expenses. T4 labour expenses comprise salary, wages, and other compensation paid to these...
SRED eligibility focuses on what the work is, how the work was done, why it was done, where it was done, and when it was done.
The law says several things about SR&ED. There has to have been a scientific or technological uncertainty. This means that the scientific or technological challenge was not resolvable by only using methodologies (techniques and procedures) that are standard practice for competent practitioners in the knowledge field to which the project pertains
The fundamentals of it are that you need to be seeking technological advancement through scientific research or experimental development that is done via systematic experimentation or analysis.
If you are trying to resolve a technological uncertainty by application of systematic experimentation and investigation, you may well have SRED expenses eligible for a hefty tax rebate.
One of the concerns many people have about filing the SRED claim is the amount of time they will have to spend. It would be misleading to say that you would not notice the demand on your schedule. It DOES take time, but it can be minimized.
The SRED program is administered by CRA because it is the Income Tax Act of Canada that gives the program its authority.