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TaxTrax: R&D Survey
Under the new R&D Tax Incentive laws, companies claiming the R&D Tax Incentive must keep records of their activities to substantiate their claim. Completing this survey 3 times a year will build a log of the activities you have conducted and a record the documentation you have for each activity.
This is a short survey with the following 3 sections:
1. Project Information 2. Eligibility 3. Literature Review/ Benchmarking 4. Core Activities 5. Supporting Activities |
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Uses of Information
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| Please provide a brief background of your project | | |
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| What are your technical objectives? | | |
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| What technical challenges you are currently facing? | | |
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| What experiments are you currently conducting? | | |
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Which of the following best describes your project: |
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Have you planned out the project and worked out the time frame of completion? |
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Is your project based on engineering or science principles or 'know how'? |
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Have you recorded the potential issues and recorded the potential level of failures? |
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Do you have the rights to use the technology? |
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Are you aiming to exceed statutory standards/spec requirements |
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3. Literature Review/ Benchmarking |
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| How is your project different to an existing product or process? Examples of differences could relate to: features, cost effectiveness or quality. | | |
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| Who is your nearest competitor? Please provide a link to their website. | | |
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| What is the closest product that your competitor offers as a solution? If there is no other product like yours on the market, who is solving the same problem in a different way? | | |
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Key R&D activities are separated into Core Activities and Supporting Activities. Please answer these questions with regard to your current activities only.
From the list below, please select the Core Activities that you are currently working on (select all that apply). |
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Design Concept:
Please select any documentation you have for your design concept (select all that apply): |
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Development:
Please select any documentation or records you have to for the development phase of the project (select all that apply): |
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Trials & Analysis:
Please select any documentation or records you have to for the trials & analysis phase of the project (select all that apply): |
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Thanks for updating your Core Activities |
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Supporting activities can be separated into two areas:
1. Background Research 2. Feedback R&D
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1. Background Research
Please select any activities that you are currently working on: |
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Concept/ mind map
Please select the documentation you have for the concept/ mind map of the project: |
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Literature review of products
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted a literature review of existing products or technology:
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Literature review of a component
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted a literature review of a component product or technology: |
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Competitor Analysis
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted an analysis of competitor products/services: |
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Revision of hypothesis
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted initial testing of the concept leading to revision of hypothesis: |
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Establishing test parameters
Please select the documentation you have to show how you established test parameters |
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Thanks for updating your activities relating to background research. Please press 'Continue' to complete the rest of the survey |
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2. Feedback R&D
Please select any activities that you are currently working on: |
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Field Tests
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted field tests: |
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Project modifications: Client feedback
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted project modifications based on client feedback: |
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Project modifications: Trial data
Please select the documentation you have to show you undertook project modifications based on trial data |
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Beta testing
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted beta testing: |
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Design modifications: Statutory requirements
Please select the documentation you have to show you conducted design modifications to meet statutory requirements: |
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Project debrief
Please select the documentation you have to show that you conducted a project: debrief: |
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Thanks for updating your Supporting Activities. You have now completed the survey, please press 'Submit'. |
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