Research and Development 2026 – Accessing earlier returns (live webinar)

For businesses, Research and Development (R&D) is a cost that is incurred in order to derive income at a future point in time.  Many businesses forget that there is also an opportunity to derive income at the time the expenditure is incurred through either the tax loss cash out scheme or the tax credit incentive scheme.

This webinar seeks to demystify the accounting and taxation treatment of Research and Development (R&D) expenditure and R&D tax incentive schemes, including:

• Accounting and income tax considerations
• R&D tax loss cash out scheme
• R&D tax credit incentive scheme
• Tax administration and timing matters

Upon satisfactory completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify an eligible person
• Explain the relative incentives
• Quantify the relevant R&D incentive
• Assist a business to apply for an R&D incentive

This course will be suited to: 

• Accountants and other professionals advising R&D businesses
• In-house finance team working in a business with R&D activities

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Duration: 1.00 CPD hours (approx. 55 mins content + 5 mins Q&A)

PRESENTER

Katherine Ong, Associate Partner, Findex/Crowe
Katherine is an Associate Partner in the Auckland Tax Division of Findex/Crowe.  She has over 20 years’ experience in advising a diverse range of clients in all areas of taxation, and in the R&D tax incentives space over the last 5 years successfully working with multinational corporates and innovative start-up businesses to access the two R&D tax incentive regimes.  Katherine first aims to understand her clients’ objectives and partners with them to recommend commercial and pragmatic tax solutions.