Emergex SR&ED Consultants, the expert in government assistance for the software and manufacturing industries, helps technology companies across Canada obtain the best return from the combination of their tax credits and grants.
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The SR&ED program refunds up to 74% of eligible R&D expenses, including salaries, subcontractor fees, university research contracts, R&D equipment and tools, materials consumed, and overhead expenditures invested in your projects.
An SR&ED audit is an integral part of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit program, ensuring that companies meet the program’s strict criteria by providing proper documentation and demonstrating compliance with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requirements. Even well-prepared or conservative claims may be selected for audit due to the CRA’s risk analysis grid and even occasional random selection, which ensures fairness across all applicants.
Calculating an SR&ED claim is a key step in maximizing the tax credits available to companies performing research and development in Canada. The process involves identifying eligible salaries, subcontractor costs, materials, and overhead using CRA-approved calculation methods. Because small errors in classification or allocation can significantly affect the final credit amount, accurate SR&ED calculation is essential to optimize your claim and ensure compliance.
Emergex SR&ED Consultants provides specialized support for businesses in Quebec seeking to claim the CRIC tax credit (Credit for Research, Innovation and Commercialization). This refundable provincial credit is designed to encourage innovation by covering expenses related to research and development R&D, but also now pre-commercialization activities and capital equipment used in eligible work.
Emergex SR&ED Consultants offers expert assistance to Quebec-based companies in claiming the CDAEIA tax credit, designed to support digital transformation through the development of software integrating artificial intelligence. This credit, which supersedes the earlier CDAE program, provides a partly refundable 30% tax incentive aimed at reducing the financial burden of hiring and retaining skilled IT and AI professionals.
Emergex is one of the business consulting firms that has filed the greatest number of E-Business tax credit claims with Investissement Québec since the creation of this funding program in 2008. This 30% partially non-refundable and refundable tax credit reimburses eligible activities and salaries in software products, development projects, and IT services.
The tax credit for the production of multimedia titles is an measure to support technology companies and those working on the creation of interactive multimedia products, from the initial design to the final version ready for marketing. This refundable tax credit refunds expenses related to the development of these multimedia products, which include eligible wage and other expenses required to complete the project.
IDCI innovation deduction reduces the effective corporate tax rate to 2% on income from commercializing eligible intellectual property. Eligible claimants are corporations with a Québec establishment that commercialize patents, copyrighted software, or protected plant varieties developed through Québec-performed R&D.
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We are proud to be a trusted partner for companies across Canada looking to leverage SR&ED, other tax credits and grants. Benefit from our quarter of a century of experience by asking our opinion about your past, present and future claims!
Our clients and partners
Since 1994, Emergex has helped its clients receive hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding.
For the past five years, Emergex has been in charge of preparing our multimedia and SR&ED claims. This way, we save time and it gives us peace of mind. As software developers, we don’t always know how to approach this kind of thing or how to present our SR&ED activities in order to meet the requirements of the program….
Alain Déry, Vice President of R&D, Micro-Accès
Emergex showed us that even though it isn’t our primary activity, we too can claim tax credits for R&D projects in IT! Thank you Emergex!
Jonathan Despres, Associate Director, Business Applications, Pharmascience
This year, we were looking to finance our SRED tax credits in advance. Not only did Emergex introduce us to the right resources, but every lender was very comforted by the fact that we are working with Emergex. Their reputation of excellence is a big benefit to all of their clients.
Emergex handled the entire SRED claim process from start to finish so professionally; I couldn’t be happier with their services. Thank you Emergex for being awesome!
Shawn Errunza, COO and CFO of Jintronix
For the past 14 years, we have retained the services of Emergex to help us structure our R&D department in order to maximize the benefits from SRED tax credits.
Emergex has prepared and supported us efficiently during and after the two fiscal and technological audits by Revenue Canada. Their SRED consultants have been able to guide us and to highlight the key aspects of our eligible work.
Jean-François Gravel, R&D Software Architect, IQware
Allow me to tip my hat to Emergex for the tour de force that represents the technological description of our SR&ED projects, which I find, quite frankly, of outstanding quality, not to mention that I am especially impressed that you could do so much, in terms of both quantity and accuracy, based solely on our few hours of discussion!
Louis Côté, CEO and co-founder, Hint Innovation
I have worked with several SRED consultants from Emergex and I can say that they all have met our high expectations. I speak from experience, having used two other SRED firms before.
I want to thank the SRED consultant from Emergex for his guidance during the preparation of our SRED claim. Because of this team effort, we were very well prepared the day of the technical audit by the CRA.
Steve Piché, CEO of ECC Solutions, Quebec City
Emergex multidisciplinary team’s ongoing support, availability, and exceptional responsiveness are part of the strengths that make them stand far above other SRED firms. With Emergex financial and technology consultants’ excellent knowledge of the SRED program, we have substantially optimized and increased our SRED tax credits.
Steeve Duchesne, CEO of Askida and Ex-Chairman of the Board of Directors of AQT, Quebec Technology Association
During the preparatory meeting and the audit thereafter, we have been privileged to observe and appreciate the professionalism of the Emergex team, both in their preparations and the explanations they put forward. The quality of a consultant in the field of SRED tax credits cannot be determined at the time the initial claim but rather through the efforts they undertake to deal with an audit. Big thanks for your excellent work!
Serge Bonenfant, CEO, Qualicode
As professional engineers, we were impressed by the technical expertise of Emergex SRED Consultants in our industry, as well as their excellent service quality and fair price. If you are a tech or engineering company looking to claim your SRED tax credits, talk to Emergex!
Nasim Morawej, P.Eng., M.Sc., PMP, Co-founder and Principal Project Engineer, Sentient Tools Engineering Corporation, Edmonton, Alberta
I wanted to take a moment to thank Emergex SRED Consultants for your service over the last 12 years. I have enjoyed our relationship and your team’s professionalism.
David Perkins, President and CEO of IQware, Florida, USA
More than just a service provider, we consider Emergex SR&ED Consultants a valued partner. I would not hesitate to recommend Emergex to anyone who needs help to claim SRED tax credits. Emergex even went as far as flying in their national SRED practice leader from Montreal to our offices in Hamilton to give a tailored SR&ED seminar to our entire technical team!
Colin Duetta, President and “Holder of the Napkin”, Human_Code, Hamilton, Ontario
Your team did an incredible job on our first SR&ED filing, so we are pleased to work with Emergex again this year. Thank you for your prompt assistance, especially considering how tight our deadline was. Great work!!!
Brett Patrontasch, CEO at Shyft, Toronto, formerly in Ottawa
Emergex SR&ED Consultants actively manages a network of strategic partners with whom we exchange clients, prospects, references and other useful contacts. Our philosophy consists in building win-win and long-term relationships with both our clients and our partners.
If you want to join the ranks of our partners, let’s talk and explore what we can mutually bring to our respective organizations and clients!
