Archive for August 2009

Continuous Improvement and SR&ED

We frequently encounter manufacturing companies that are significantly under claiming on their SR&ED tax credits. The biggest mistake we see is that many of these companies view their new product development efforts as the only area where SR&ED is occurring and forget to look at their manufacturing improvement efforts. The methodologies of effective manufacturing process [...]

SR&ED Advice: Get Educated!

A major piece of advice we regularly give to our clients is to get educated on the SR&ED program. More often than not, our clients respond by saying something like, “Isn’t that why we’ve hired you?” Our answer to that question is “Yes, however….”. “Yes” relates to the fact that MCN will handle the preparation [...]