For software, AI, engineering and other technology companies, R&D eligibility can depend on highly technical details.
It is not enough to say that a product was new, difficult to build or innovative.
An R&D Tax Incentive claim needs to explain the technical uncertainty being investigated, why the outcome could not be determined in advance and how experimentation was undertaken.
Consider a software developer who spends time:
- experimenting with a new architecture
- testing alternative technical solutions
- building standard features
- fixing bugs
- maintaining an existing platform
These activities may all form part of the same commercial project, but they should not automatically receive the same R&D treatment.
This is why the technical capability of your R&D advisor matters.
At Rimon Advisory, our Technical Team works directly with developers, engineers and technical leaders to understand what actually occurred.
The objective is to identify the genuine experimental activities within the broader development project and translate that work into a clear, supportable R&D position.
For technically complex businesses, this is one of the strongest reasons to choose a specialist R&D advisor like Rimon Advisory rather than treating the R&D claim as simply another part of the company’s annual tax return.
