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About this service

This service allows customers who are claiming the R&D tax credit on their income tax return to submit their supporting detailed statement online. In order to submit a detailed statement you'll need to register for online services, and log in through myIR Secure Online Services.

When to use this service

Use this service when you wish to complete a detailed statement, in support of a claim for an R&D tax credit on your 2008-09 tax return.

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.

Important

• To claim the R&D tax credit, you must submit a detailed statement online.
• In most instances, the last date for submitting a detailed statement was 30 April 2010. However, if you have not already made an R&D tax credit claim in your 2009 income tax return you may still be able to make a claim. Find out more.
• Registering for myIR Secure Online Services does not mean pre-approval or eligibility to claim the R&D tax credit.
• You must file both an annual income tax return and a detailed statement to claim the tax credit. The detailed statement must be filed no later than 30 days after the due date for the income tax return.
• The income tax return must include the total amount of R&D tax credit claimed. In the supporting detailed statement, you must provide details of the eligible R&D activities undertaken and the eligible expenditure and/or depreciation incurred during the period.

Before you begin

• You can download the complete help information for the detailed statement as a PDF or RTF file, or you can access specific sections of the help information while you are completing the statement, by selecting the help (?) icons.
• Learn how to avoid some of the most common errors when claiming the R&D tax credit.

What you will need

You'll need:

• your business IRD number - if you don't have this, call us on 0800 377 774
• your business address and contact details
• the following descriptive information relating to your individual projects:
  • What new knowledge, materials, products, devices, processes or services does the eligible R&D aim to produce?
  • What eligible R&D activities were undertaken to meet this objective?
  • What is the scientific or technological uncertainty that the eligible R&D seeks to resolve?
  • What appreciable element of novelty does the eligible R&D contain?
• for each of the projects and a consolidated project, you will also be asked to identify eligible expenditure broken down into:
  • employee remuneration
  • training, recruitment, relocation and travel
  • depreciation loss
  • cost of materials incorporated into prototypes
  • overheads
  • consumables
  • net cost of items transformed
  • research contracts.
• for each project, you will be asked to:
  • estimate the percentage of total employee remuneration that was spent on support activity
  • identify how much of the total eligible expenditure was spent on internal software development
  • identify how much of the total eligible expenditure was spent on R&D conducted outside New Zealand.

After you finish

When you've submitted your detailed statement, an electronic receipt, confirming that your detailed statement has been received by Inland Revenue's systems, will display.

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