Global R&D Credits & Incentives Services

Opportunities

Getting the full value of your opportunities, however, requires a thorough understanding of both:

  • The opportunies

    The laws, programs, and institutions which create the opportunities in the U.S., U.S. states, and more than 30 other countries which offer them; and

  • Your facts

    Your industry, technology, history, organization, development process, accounting systems and practices, contractual arrangements with third parties, etc.

Just as important, it requires (a) an experienced team and (b) a methodology capable of successfully marrying the two.

We have both.

Our Team: Successful Experience

Together, our R&D Credits & Incentives Team Leaders have more than 40 years of experience identifying, documenting, and supporting R&D benefits at companies ranging from Fortune 100 to small-cap companies:

Chris Bard cbard@bdo.com 212-885-8162
Jonathan Forman jforman@bdo.com 212-885-8164

Our Methodology: Practiced & Principled

Our methodology is based on the same principle most R&D incentives are based on: experimentation.

The U.S. R&D credit, for example, requires qualified activities to comprise "elements of a process of experimentation"; and the U.S. Treasury, in its 2003 Regulations, and the IRS, in their Audit Techniques Guide (updated 2004), also now focus primarily on such a process.

Continue reading: What Qualifies?