Finding an SR&ED consultant "near you" matters less than most founders think, because the SR&ED program is federal and the CRA processes claims the same way whether your preparer sits down the street or across the…
The short answer: a Canadian-controlled private corporation can earn the enhanced 35% refundable investment tax credit on the first $6 million of qualifying current expenditures, which is up to $2.1 million back as cash in a…
How involved you need to be depends on the stage. The person who did the technical work has to describe the uncertainty and the experiments in their own words, because no consultant watched the code fail…
The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit is the Government of Canada’s largest programme supporting business R&D: the CRA allowed $4.6 billion in investment tax credits on 23,677 claims processed in 2025-26. It is…
Key Takeaways Does an SR&ED consultant actually need to be near me? No. An SR&ED consultant does not need to be in your city, or even your province. SR&ED is a federal program claimed on Form…
Reviewed by Logan Hanson, BSc, CPA. Last verified against CRA guidance on August 21, 2026. Yes, you can claim SR&ED for previous fiscal years, but only within a firm window: corporations have 18 months after the…
A qualifying Canadian-controlled private corporation gets back the enhanced 35% refundable investment tax credit on the first $6 million of eligible current R&D expenditures, which is up to $2.1 million in cash per year, even in…
Reviewed by Logan Hanson, BSc, CPA. Last verified against CRA guidance on August 30, 2026. Some provincial R&D tax credits are refundable, and some are not. It depends entirely on the province and, in most cases,…
Reviewed by Logan Hanson, BSc, CPA. Last verified against CRA guidance on August 29, 2026. The honest answer: there is no single "best" province, because the number that matters is the combined federal-plus-provincial rate on your…
Reviewed by Logan Hanson, BSc, CPA. Last verified against CRA guidance on August 29, 2026. For most small Canadian companies doing genuine technical problem-solving, yes, SR&ED is worth it. A small Canadian-controlled private corporation (CCPC) earns…
