by Erik Anderson | Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
A high stakes Poker game is being played out – not in Las Vegas – but in Queensland where the dealer, The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) will shortly flip the last card and determine the winner. One side will walk away satisfied with the other left to...
by Erik Anderson | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog, EMDG
The figures that I will refer to in this post refer to EMDG applications for the 2015/16 financial year received during the period from 1 July 2016 to 28 February 2017. Austrade received a total of 3,537 applications which was an increase of 216 or 6.5% over the...
by Erik Anderson | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog, EMDG
Austrade has released figures for the EMDG Export Grant applications for the 15/16 financial year. As the EMDG program is a capped program ($132m), it has become the norm that applicants who have had potential grants over $40,000, to have their second tranche payment...
by Erik Anderson | May 18, 2015 | Blog, R and D
Last week the Australian reported that CBA and the ATO were wrangling over an amount believed to be in excess of $100,000,000 arising from tax breaks claimed for R&D. In the same article, it was reported that the ANZ had used $44,000,000 in income tax offsets,...
by Erik Anderson | May 17, 2015 | AC, Blog
Almost twelve months after the last funding was announced under the now discontinued Commercialisation Australia program, the first grants under the new Accelerating Commercialisation program have been awarded to two ACT companies. The first company to receive funding...