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Social distancing and lockdowns due to COVID-19 have had a major effect on Irish businesses. Before the pandemic hit, Ireland’s GDP was rising significantly and the business enterprise [...]

Revenue will accelerate payments of the R&D tax credit to help struggling businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.  Currently, R&D tax credits are not available until at least nine [...]

Eligibility for the R&D Tax Credit: Swanson Reed’s Solutions The R&D tax credit is not only for the work conducted in laboratories. Companies developing or improving products, [...]

Innovation: A Vital Role in Growth It is important to note that innovation plays a huge role in ensuring that productivity growth, as well as competitiveness, are achieved. Ireland depends on [...]

Government Budget Allocations The Government Budget Allocations for R&D metric (GBARD) in Ireland is considered to be the indicator for benchmarking of State-funded performance of research [...]

Technology & Innovation: Drivers of Success Some of the key drivers of competitive advantage and sustained development are technology and innovation. By definition, innovation refers to the [...]

Tax Environments for Startups The European startup initiative survey found that 25.9% of high tech startup founders set up their businesses abroad. This clearly shows that there are numerous [...]

Private R&D Expenditures There are numerous ways in which governments try to influence the level of private R&D expenditure in their respective economies. This mainly ranges from direct [...]

Irish Tax Law Under the Irish tax law, tax credits are available to companies that incur certain research and development activities. The law in relation to the Research and Development incentive [...]

Attracting Investment Through Tax Incentives Numerous governments seek to propagate R&D investment in various economies. This is being achieved through granting preferential tax treatment to [...]