AQT Lunch & Learn: I survived the audit of my SR&ED claim by the CRA!

Temps de lecture : 2 min 12s

emergex

2017-05-26 12:00

This lunch and learn workshop will focus on the evolution of the government’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program with expert advice from Emergex SR&ED Subsidies targeted at preventing audits and defending SR&ED tax credits in the event of one.

Emergex SR&ED Subsidies is a consulting firm in R&D tax credit claims particularly specialized in the software and IT services industries.

Target Issues

SRED audits are more frequent, more challenging and more expensive than ever before
Contemporaneous documentation has become an unavoidable requirement
Compliance costs in proportion to the amounts claimed are growing fast
Following a refusal, companies have filed 25 times more notices of objection challenging CRA decisions, compared to 2007

Against this backdrop, how to prevent or (if it is too late) prepare and succeed in defending your SR & ED claim in the event of an examination by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) ?

Advice Offered

How to document and structure your SR-ED projects indirectly from your client projects
… while meeting the 5 eligibility questions in Revenue Canada’s assessment process
How to present and simulate your projects before an inspection so that it complies with the decision-making process of the CRA auditors
How to survive the increased scrutiny of time sheets, job profiles, subcontractors, etc., by Revenue Quebec
Presentation of real-life cases in IT proving that it is possible to prevent, or else survive, an audit of your SR&ED

Guest Speakers’ Biography

Pierre Savignac, CEO and Founder

CEO of Emergex SR&ED Subsidies that he founded in 1994
Emergex has been recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies in the 24th edition of the Profit 200 ranking
B.Sc. in Computer Science from Université de Montréal
30 years of professional experience with: Videotron (high-speed Internet launch), Virtual Prototypes (acquired by CAE), MediaSoft Telecom (now integrated in Bell), Alis Technologies (bought by OpenText) and his own enterprises
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the world-renowned authority PMI
Member of the Fiscal and Financial Planning Association (APFF)

Jean-François Djoufak, SR&ED Technological Advisor

Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
15+ years of experience in the information technology industry
6+ years of experience in SR&ED technical writing
Former founder of a software company
Popularized science and technology as a professor and public speaker
Published 5 articles about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in international scientific journals

Registration

AQT members only

Cost: 35 $ + tax

Registration on AQT’s website

When

Friday, May 26th 2017 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Where

Office of the AQT – Quebec City

900, boul. René-Lévesque, bureau 600
Quebec
Quebec
G1R 2B5

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