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Research and development (R&D) tax credit
Te tukunga take mo te rangahau me te whanaketanga

The R&D tax credit has been repealed, effective from the 2009-10 income year. It is still available for qualifying expenditure on R&D activities carried out in the 2008-09 income year. Find out more about the R&D tax credit repeal >

Tax agents: To file a detailed statement on behalf of a client, you must upgrade your online services user ID to access your client's detailed statement. For help, ask the online services support person or administrator in your office, or contact the R&D tax credit team.

Changes to the R&D tax credit online information

Use this section to find out about changes made to the R&D tax credit online information. You can view the list of recent updates, download previous versions of the website or read about the differences between versions.

Important recent updates

This table highlights the most important changes that we've made recently. For a full list of the changes, see the October 2009 change log.

Subject area Change description
R&D tax credit

Several pages updated due to recent remedial legislation being passed. Most of the changes are about eligibility for the credit, and are in the Work out if you could get the R&D tax credit section.

For more information about the remedial amendments to the R&D tax credit legislation, you can download the special report from the Policy Advice Division's website.

Detailed statement help information New page: Avoid common errors when claiming
Updated information: Activities details screen help
Updated information: Financial details screen help
New download: "Help" information for completing the detailed statement
Listed research provider Removed: Ability to apply to become or to update or remove listing

Download website information

This table lists all the versions of the RDTC website, starting with the most current. To find out the differences between each of the versions, use the change logs.

Version of website File format Change log for website update
4.0 October 2009 RTF April 2009 - October 2009, version 3.0
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3.0 April 2009 RTF December 2008 - April 2009, version 2.0
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2.0 December 2008 RTF September 2008 - December 2008, version 1.1
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1.1 September 2008 RTF March 2008 - September 2008, version 1.0
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1.0 March 2008 RTF First release.
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Date published: 02 Nov 2009

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