Daily Archives: September 14, 2016

In today’s blog post, we’ll look at the misunderstood role of due diligence and how it pertains to SR&ED. Due diligence is a critical component of the ‘Technological Uncertainty’ which is one of the three main criteria of the program. In order to establish that a technological uncertainty exists, an organization must perform some due diligence to determine if the uncertainty is readily solvable using available knowledge, or if no information exists. Without performing this critical step, it is not possible to establish a valid technological uncertainty. There are two main misconceptions we see regarding due diligence and SR&ED. First, due diligence is a required component of the program, however the time spent in performing this task is not eligible. The reason for this is that you must establish that a technological uncertainty exists before you can begin your systematic investigation and/or experimental development and your due diligence precedes the establishment […]