R&D Audit and Litigation Support

In today's R&D incentive environment, you should expect to be audited by the ATO and AusIndustry at some point. Believe it or not, audits can sometimes be a valuable thing — a successful audit outcome provides certainty and confidence that your R&D claim is appropriate.

Most auditors try to be fair and reasonable, but sometimes differences in legislative interpretation arise. Clearly, it's best to avoid escalation or litigation.

I'm here to help. As a qualified lawyer with 29 years' R&D audit experience, and having submitted thousands of R&D project applications with a near-perfect track record, you've come to the right place.

ATO and AusIndustry auditors will usually look for the following:

• Contemporaneous documentation to back up your R&D technical claims and experiments
• Contemporaneous documentation to back up your R&D expenditure calculations
• Documentation to support other eligibility threshold items such as:

1. Corporate structure
2. Aggregated turnover
3. Salary and wage allocations
4. Contract payments
5. Nexus to profit and loss expenses and overheads
6. The entity for whom the R&D is conducted
7. Overseas expenditure
8. Nexus to other direct expenditure