How do you test eligibility?
Good advice should engage with technical uncertainty, systematic progression, core and supporting activities and excluded activities rather than starting with a percentage of project cost.
R&D tax consultant Australia
The best R&D advice starts with the technical work, not the tax return.
An R&DTI adviser should help the company distinguish experimental activities from ordinary development, understand the evidence required and connect eligible activity analysis to expenditure. My focus is the operating-system and evidence layer that makes that professional work easier and more defensible.
Choosing support
Questions worth asking before appointing an R&D adviser.
What evidence do you expect?
The company should be able to produce contemporaneous records that demonstrate what happened, when, by whom and why the outcome could not be known in advance.
How are costs linked?
Activity eligibility and expenditure analysis are related but distinct. The cost methodology should be clear, traceable and supported by records.
Who owns the claim?
R&DTI is self-assessed. Management should understand the position rather than outsourcing responsibility for the underlying facts.
How are software activities treated?
Ordinary software development is not automatically R&D. Technical hurdles, failed attempts, alternatives and experimental progression need to be evidenced.
What happens before year end?
The strongest process establishes experiment and evidence systems during the year instead of reconstructing technical narratives after the work is complete.
My role
Build the records your R&D and tax advisers need.
I design AI-enabled R&D operating systems: experiment registers, evidence capture, activity tracking, technical decision records and expenditure-support workflows. I can coordinate with the company's tax agent or R&D specialist, but I do not present systems work as a guarantee of R&DTI eligibility or tax outcomes.
Official reference
The R&DTI application process expressly accommodates authorised tax agents and R&D consultants, while confirming that the program remains self-assessed and registration itself does not establish eligibility.
Official application guidance →R&D operating-system review
Give your advisers better evidence to work with.
Tell me what the company is developing and how experiments are currently recorded.