With the news that Commercialisation Australia (CA) is being axed in the 2014 Budget, what happens to businesses that had made an application prior to the freezing of the fund? According to GrantReady, CA is now closed to new applications. However, if an application was made prior to 21 March 2014, it will be assessed….
While it seems like an eternity since it was first announced, the new R&D Tax Credit has finally been passed. So what does that mean for the average company plugging away at research and development? The R&D Tax Credit is the key support tool used by the government to assist businesses undertaking R&D in Australia. The new program will apply retrospectively from 1 July 2011 and replaces the R&D Tax Concession.
Amidst the heated rhetoric over taxes and the best way to achieve a surplus, one area of the budget may be getting overlooked: grants. According to one agency, “the budget seems to be a reshuffling exercise aimed at incurring no additional expense. Even programs cut last budget are counted as savings again, without much to replace them.”
The place of interaction between government and industry is often clouded with confusion, perplexity and frustration, where it seems as though no one is truly speaking the same language. In order to help you in your dealings with government, we thought we would offer you an inside look as to how the government thinks about…
Australian Anthill Magazine Dec 2008/Jan 2009 As part of the Magazine 2.0 Experiment, we asked our readers to pose questions via our blog concerning the government grant process. Then, our grant guru, Adrian Spencer, did his best to answer them. Here are the results. Question from Carli Johnston: I want to start a business in…
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