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The R&D Tax Credit in the Maritime and Boating

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R&D Tax Credits: 80% of eligible companies don’t claim them! Every year, companies waste thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars due to simple misunderstandings about the Research and Development (R&S) tax credit. Amendment claims can go back three years and in most cases generate sizable refunds for past R&D activities.

Date and Time: Thursday, October 2, 2030 at 1:00 PM CT | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Title: The R&D Tax Credit in the Maritime and Boating

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Cost: FREE

Learning objectives include:

An overview of R&D Tax Credits
Identifying Qualifying Research Activities
Defining the 4-Part Test
How to substantiate activities through documentation
Identifying Qualifying Research Expenses

Knowledge Level: Basic*
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2030
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time

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Small businesses in the transportation sector can significantly benefit from the R&D tax credit by claiming expenses related to the development or improvement of logistics systems, routing software, or vehicle technology. The R&D payroll tax offset for startups is particularly valuable, allowing eligible early-stage companies to apply the credit — up to $500,000 per year — against their payroll tax liability. This helps reduce employment tax costs, freeing up capital to invest in innovation, hire talent, and scale operations. By leveraging this incentive, transportation startups can increase competitiveness and growth while alleviating the burden of personnel expenses.

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Earhart Engineering, a renowned company in the field of transportation methods, systems, and equipment, proposed an R&D plan for the “Self-e”, a self-driving electric vehicle/aircraft. Their goal was a street-legal, self-operating vehicle/aircraft with a battery range of 500 miles. To qualify for the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit, their “qualified research” had to meet Congress’s Four-Part Test. Earhart Engineering claimed several activities as eligible R&D work, including designing and developing prototypes to achieve technical objectives, conducting trials and analyzing data to obtain reproducible results and test hypotheses, engaging in background research to identify knowledge gaps and feasibility, and continuous analysis of customer feedback to improve prototype design. Qualified research involves the development of new or improved business components, which are products, processes, techniques, inventions, formulas, or computer software intended for sale, lease, license, or use in the taxpayer’s trade or business. The Four-Part Test requires a permitted purpose (creating new or improved functionality, performance, reliability, or quality), the elimination of uncertainty (discovering information to address uncertainty in development, method, or design), a process of experimentation (a systematic process to evaluate alternatives when results or design are uncertain), and a technological nature (relying on principles of the hard sciences). Earhart Engineering maintained thorough documentation, which included literature reviews, background research, meeting notes, project logs, conceptual sketches, design drawings, and visual aids, ensuring they were audit-ready.