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How To Finance Your Business With a SR&ED SRED Tax Credit Secured Loan
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Article Overview: Cash Flow your r&d Tax Credit Today !Information on Canadas sr&ed tax credit and how business owners and financial managers in Canada can monetize their sr&ed tax credit via a secured loan which provides additional working capital for ongoing business financing needs
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How To Finance Your Business With a SR&ED SRED Tax Credit Secured Loan
Can you actually finance your Canadian business via
the monetizing of a sred tax credit secured loan? Absolutely, positively... maybe.
We say maybe because if you don’t have a SR&ED tax credit then it is of
course not possible. However, if you participate in Canada's primary R&D tax credit
program then you're potentially on your way to increased cash flow and working capital.
Recent articles in the Canadian business press have criticized
the need for the government to even further increase these tax credits. Typically
most Canadian business owners and financial managers think that the sred tax
credit applies only to manufacturing, which is the farthest thing from the truth. A recent article in the Globe and Mail , one
of Canada's premier business publications, stated clearly
that firms in the resource, services and technology sector also participate
vigorously in the program .
If your firm in fact innovates and spends money on R&D
the last thing you can be criticized for is under investing in your future. Therefore
monetizing your tax credit after it is filed (it can also be cash flowed prior
to filing! in certain circumstances) makes great financial sense.
Is monetizing your tax flow credit risky in any
sense of the word? Our clients hardly think so, as you are simply ' cash flowing ‘, or ' discounting' your
claim today , and you are not even
adding debt to your balance sheet . Think of the sred credit as a current
asset, in fact it’s a receivable, and you are simply collateralizing a bridge loan
against your sr&Ed claim.
SR&ED tax credits are more often than not
prepared by an external consultant, although some firms choose to prepare the
claim itself - we suspect it's because they think that they have a better
handle on the nature of the claim. The reality is however that you gain an
additional ' brownie point ' - if we can call it that by having the claim
prepared by a professional sred consultant. Many firms in Canada aren’t aware that these consultants
will even prepare your claim on a contingency basis - so if they are prepared
to take the risk of time and expense on your claim you can quite rightly assume
they feel it will be approved , as professional rarely choose to work for
free!.
While the Globe and Mail survey indicated that 70% of Canadian business thought the tax
credits currently in place were not as generous as they thought they should be
, lets be honest and cant we agree that receiving 40-50% back of every dollar you spend on
r&d isn’t that bad a start! And you if can turn your spent funds into
instant cash flow by monetizing your claim doesn’t that give you a leg up on your competition . We certainly think
so.
Cash for research tax credits is not a complicated process.
A short overview is as follows - have your claim prepared in a manner that
suits the government’s current filing process. File your calim with your tax return.
Seek out a trusted, credible and experience business financing advisor who will
work with you to complete a SRED financing application - it is not dissimilar
to any other business financing application you have ever filled out. Include
your sred claim as additional back up, as it is in effect the collateral for
your sred loan. Claims can be financed in two to three weeks after some basic
due diligence.
Financing sred puts you in line with other firms to
get your share of the 3 Billion (yes that’s billion!) dollars of non repayable cash
grants. Turning your claim into a cash infusion makes great sense if you are a
small to medium sized firm with need for additional working capital.
Monetizing your claim will drive cash flow which
will no doubt inspire your firm to further innovation.
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About the Author: Stan Prokop RSS for Stan's articles - Visit Stan's website Stan Prokop is the founder of 7 Park Avenue Financial . The firm specializes in business financing for Canadian companies in the areas of working capital , asset based lending, SR & ED tax credit financing, equipment financing, franchise financing and banking .
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