{ "name": "sredfinder.com Sred Claim Rules", "title": "Sred Claim Rules", "url": "https://sredfinder.com/datasets/sred-claim-rules/", "csv": "https://sredfinder.com/datasets/sred-claim-rules.csv", "markdown": "https://sredfinder.com/datasets/sred-claim-rules/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-11-08", "license": "https://sredfinder.com/terms", "headline": "The Sred Claim Rules carries 9 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 10 to 90 percent, read 7 November 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Sred Claim Rules carries 9 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 10 to 90 percent, read 7 November 2026.", "7 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule federal basic investment tax credit rate: median 15 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule short taxation year expenditure limit proration: median 51 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule 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median 12 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule CCPC/ECPC enhanced investment tax credit addition rate: median 20 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule CCPC expenditure limit: median 6,000,000 CAD across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule expenditure limit phase-out lower taxable capital threshold: median 15,000,000 CAD across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule expenditure limit phase-out taxable capital cap: median 60,000,000 CAD across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule associated CCPC expenditure limit agreement filing after Minister's notice: median 30 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule ECPC expenditure limit: median 6,000,000 CAD across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule ECPC consolidated group expenditure limit agreement filing after Minister's notice: median 30 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule ECPC short taxation year expenditure limit proration: median 51 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule ECPC short fiscal year revenue annualization: median 51 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule consolidated group short fiscal year revenue annualization: median 51 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule transfer of qualified expenditures - transferee payment deadline: median 180 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule transfer of qualified expenditures - transferor payment deadline: median 180 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule unpaid expenditures 180 days after year-end: median 180 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule recapture on conversion of first term shared-use equipment: median 25 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule recapture on conversion of second term shared-use equipment: median 50 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule SR&ED deduction prescribed form filing deadline: median 12 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule COVID-19 extension of SR&ED reporting deadlines (Bill C-20, from March 13, 2020, not past December 31, 2020): median 6 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule SR&ED claim reporting deadline after tax year-end: median 18 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule 80% of expenditures described in subparagraphs 37(1)(a)(i.01) to (iii) included in qualified expenditure: median 80 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule ITC recapture on disposition of second term shared-use equipment (50% of proceeds): median 50 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "Sred Claim Rules, rule specified shareholder 10% share ownership 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quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/forms/t661.html", "label": "CRA - Form T661", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/scientific-research-experimental-development-tax-incentive-program/self-assessment-learning-tool.html", "label": "CRA - SR&ED self-assessment and learning tool", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-3.3/section-37.html", "label": "Income Tax Act s.37 (SR&ED expenditures)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-3.3/section-127.html", "label": "Income Tax Act s.127 (investment tax credit)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-3.3/section-248.html", "label": "Income Tax Act s.248(1) (definitions, incl. SR&ED)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 7 of the 13 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 9 figures, never sentences; 173 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per rule per source of authority - the statute, the form, the guide, the policy - each threshold, rate and deadline quoted verbatim with its effective date and the paragraph it comes from; across the rows what nobody publishes together: the complete list of dated thresholds a claimant has to clear in one table (the 55% prescribed proxy amount, the 18-month reporting deadline, the 80% contract rule, the directly-engaged salary tests), which of them changed at each budget, and where the CRA's own guidance and the Income Tax Act use different words for the same test", "embed": "

10 to 90 percent

9 published figures, Sred Claim Rules, across 4 sources, read 7 November 2026

Source: sredfinder.com Sred Claim Rules
" }