Compliance & Evidence
Compliance & Evidence
Building review-ready R&D claims: contemporaneous evidence, documentation, and how to handle an ATO or AusIndustry review.
R&D Tax Incentive Record Keeping: Contemporaneous Evidence
What records the ATO and AusIndustry expect for an R&D claim, what contemporaneous really means, how long to keep them, and a checklist by claim stage.
Read articleHow to Write an R&D Tax Incentive Technical Narrative
A field-by-field guide to AusIndustry activity descriptions: hypothesis, sources investigated, experiment, evaluation and new knowledge, with worked examples.
Read articleUsing GitHub Commits as R&D Tax Incentive Evidence
Can GitHub commit history support an R&D Tax Incentive claim? What AusIndustry and the ATO accept, what commits can't prove, and how to make it defensible.
Read articleHow to Document R&D Activities for AusIndustry
A practical process for documenting R&D activities as they happen, so your AusIndustry core activity descriptions hold up under review.
Read articleATO R&D Tax Incentive reviews: what triggers them, how to be ready
A review is not a disaster if your claim is well-evidenced. Here is what tends to trigger an ATO or AusIndustry review of an R&D Tax Incentive claim, what they ask for, and how to be ready before one lands.
Read articleContemporaneous evidence for a defensible R&D claim
Eligibility gets you in the door. Evidence keeps you there. This guide covers what contemporaneous records the ATO and AusIndustry expect, the evidence hierarchy that holds up in a review, and the documentation habits that make a claim defensible.
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