Six questions. You will get a straight answer on eligibility, the specific reason behind it, and an estimate of the federal and provincial credit. No obligation, and no email required to see your result.
SR&ED is claimed by a corporation, on work performed in Canada. These answers set which rates apply.
Most private, Canadian-owned companies are CCPCs, and they earn the enhanced 35% refundable credit.
There is a hard statutory deadline: 18 months after the fiscal year end. Miss it and the claim is barred.
Select everything your team spent real time on during that year. Be honest about the ordinary work too, it changes the answer, and it is better to know now.
Eligibility turns on these, not on how innovative the product is or how hard the team worked.
Meaning: a qualified professional in your field, working from published information and established methods, could not have predicted the outcome or known how to get there.
A hypothesis or plan, tests or trials run against it, results analysed, and the approach changed based on what you learned.
This is the single strongest indicator of eligible work, and the thing reviewers ask about first. Work that succeeded on the first attempt rarely involved real uncertainty.
Beyond what your team knew, and beyond what is publicly available. A commercial or business gain on its own does not count.
These determine whether the claim belongs to your company and how well it would hold up if the CRA asks questions.
Select all that apply. Records created afterwards from memory carry far less weight.
Rough figures are fine, this is a planning estimate. Count only what relates to the technical work above, not your whole payroll.
Headcount, not full-time equivalents. Used to calculate the Quebec exclusion threshold where applicable.
Only the portion of their pay that maps to the technical work.
Arm's-length, work done in Canada.
Used up or transformed in the work.
Select any that apply. We will match you to funding programs beyond SR&ED.
This is a preliminary screen and a planning estimate, not tax advice or a formal eligibility opinion. Actual entitlement depends on the facts of the work, your corporate structure, and the CRA's assessment of the claim.
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