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...
by Erik Anderson | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog, R and D, Updates
One of the areas that many R&D Tax Incentive applicants lose out on in the early stages of a new company undertaking eligible R&D activities is valuing their time spent on undertaking core activity experiments. I was on a call with a potential new applicant...
by Erik Anderson | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, EMDG
The deadline for Export Grant applications for the 2013/14 financial year is Monday, the 2nd of March 2015. I was talking to a new client during the week and asked them what they had done with their application last year. The client replied “I...
