SR&ED requires facing a scientific or technological uncertainty. The uncertainty cannot be solved using standard practice or knowledge already available to practitioners in the field. If a professional can resolve the problem using existing techniques, its routine is therefore not applicable to SR&ED. Even if you didn’t find a solution, you can still get cash back for your expenditures. Visit the official Canada Revenue Agency website to view what work qualifies.
Qualifying work varies across businesses, industries and their specific circumstances of research and development, though some general examples include:
- Existing tools or frameworks couldn’t meet performance, accuracy, or scalability requirements, so a new approach had to be developed and tested.
- Standard algorithms produced unacceptable results for a specific use case, requiring development of a novel method through trial and error.
- Known architecture patterns caused system failures at scale, and no established solution existed.
- Off-the-shelf components couldn’t operate within the required conditions, so a custom solution had to be designed and validated.
- Existing designs couldn’t meet performance requirements under the specific operating conditions, requiring development of a new approach.
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