{"id":17509,"date":"2026-06-15T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/?p=17509"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:44:07","slug":"when-startups-should-file-sred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/blog\/when-startups-should-file-sred\/","title":{"rendered":"When should startups consider filing for SR&amp;ED?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull blog-template-header has-neutral-100-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--16)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div style=\"--bb--crumb-gap:.4em;\" class=\"blog-template-breadcrumb wp-block-employmentherocom2025-breadcrumb-block\"><nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" 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1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:66px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sticky-side-panel is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-11 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex wp-container-2 is-position-sticky\">\n<p class=\"has-lg-font-size\" style=\"border-bottom-color:var(--wp--preset--color--neutral-200);border-bottom-width:0.1rem;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--4);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--4)\"><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content-single-table-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<div id=\"content-wrapper\" class=\"wp-block-group content-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--4)\">\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Most founders hear about SR&amp;ED the same way: a friend mentions it over coffee, an accountant brings it up in March or a competitor casually drops that they clawed back six figures from the government last year. By then, you&#8217;re usually already behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">SR&amp;ED, Canada&#8217;s Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit, is one of the most generous innovation funding programs in the world. It can put real cash back into your business for work your team is already doing. And yet thousands of eligible Canadian companies either miss it, claim too late or leave money on the table because they treated it as an afterthought instead of a strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Here&#8217;s the truth nobody tells you early enough: the question isn&#8217;t whether you should file for SR&amp;ED. It&#8217;s when. And the answer is almost always sooner than you think. This blog breaks down exactly when filing starts to make sense, the signals that say you&#8217;re eligible, the misconceptions that hold founders back and why waiting too long can quietly cost you tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Find out what your innovation work could be worth in real dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/sred\/#demo\">Book a demo<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is SR&amp;ED, in plain English?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">SR&amp;ED is a federal tax incentive that rewards Canadian businesses for doing research and development work. Not Nobel-prize-level research. Everyday problem-solving where your team tries to build something, hits technical uncertainty and works through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The program gives you back a percentage of eligible costs, including salaries, contractor fees and materials. For many Canadian-controlled private corporations, a big chunk of that comes back as a refundable tax credit. That means actual cash, even if you&#8217;re pre-profit and not paying tax yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Read that again. Cash. Even if you&#8217;re losing money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">For a startup burning through runway, that&#8217;s not a nice-to-have. It&#8217;s a lifeline that can fund another engineer, extend your runway by months or take the pressure off your next raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The work that qualifies is broader than most founders assume. If your team is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checkmark\">\n<li class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Building software and solving genuine technical problems along the way<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--1-5);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--1-5)\">Developing a new product or materially improving an existing one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Engineering a process that doesn&#8217;t have an obvious off-the-shelf answer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--1-5)\">Experimenting, testing, failing and iterating toward a solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">then there&#8217;s a real chance some of that work qualifies. The key word is uncertainty. If your team had to figure out how to do something, not just do it, you may be sitting on a claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So when should you actually start thinking about it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Short answer: from your very first technical hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Longer answer: SR&amp;ED isn&#8217;t a tax form you fill out once a year. It&#8217;s a way of tracking and documenting work that you should build into how you operate from day one. The founders who win at SR&amp;ED aren&#8217;t the ones with the best accountants. They&#8217;re the ones who set up good habits early. Here are the real moments that should trigger the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;ve hired your first developer or engineer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The second you&#8217;re paying someone to build and solve technical problems, you&#8217;re potentially incurring eligible costs. Salaries are usually the largest part of any SR&amp;ED claim. So the moment payroll includes technical work, the clock is ticking on documentation you&#8217;ll wish you&#8217;d kept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;re building something that doesn&#8217;t exist yet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">If your product required your team to work through problems with no clear solution, that&#8217;s the heart of SR&amp;ED. You don&#8217;t need to invent a new category. You need to have faced technical uncertainty and worked through it systematically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;re spending real money on R&amp;D<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Once your development costs become a meaningful line in your budget, the potential refund becomes meaningful too. A startup spending $400,000 a year on engineering salaries could be looking at a substantial refundable credit. That&#8217;s not rounding error. That&#8217;s a hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;re planning your runway and next raise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">This is the strategic part most founders miss. SR&amp;ED refunds are predictable cash if you plan for them. Factor them into your runway calculations and you change the math on how long your money lasts and how much you need to raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">In short: if you&#8217;re paying people to build and solve hard problems, you should already be thinking about SR&amp;ED. Not next tax season. Now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The misconceptions that cost founders money<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">A lot of eligible startups never file because they believe something that isn&#8217;t true. Let&#8217;s clear the big ones out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re too early.&#8221;<\/strong> Nope. You can claim from your first eligible expense. Pre-revenue, pre-profit, pre-everything. The refundable portion exists precisely so early-stage companies can benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re not doing real research.&#8221;<\/strong> SR&amp;ED isn&#8217;t about lab coats and white papers. It&#8217;s about technical problem-solving. If your developers ever said &#8220;we&#8217;re not sure if this will work, let&#8217;s try it,&#8221; that&#8217;s the language of eligible work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s too complicated to bother.&#8221;<\/strong> The process has real requirements, yes. But the cost of skipping a $60,000 refund because the paperwork felt annoying is a lot higher than the cost of getting organized. Curious what your work might be worth? Run the numbers with an <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/sred\/sred-calculator\/\">SR&amp;ED calculator<\/a> before you decide it isn&#8217;t worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;ll just sort it out at tax time.&#8221;<\/strong> This is the most expensive misconception of all. SR&amp;ED rewards good records kept in real time. Reconstructing a year of technical work from memory in March is how claims get weak, delayed or denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;We can claim whenever we get around to it.&#8221;<\/strong> You can&#8217;t. There&#8217;s a hard deadline, and missing it means the money is gone for good. More on that next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why waiting too long is a genuine cost<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Here&#8217;s where founders get burned. SR&amp;ED has a filing deadline of 18 months after the end of the tax year in which you incurred the costs. Miss it and that year&#8217;s claim disappears. Permanently. No appeals, no extensions, no exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Think about what that means. The work your team did in year one is only claimable for a limited window. If you keep telling yourself you&#8217;ll deal with it later, &#8220;later&#8221; eventually becomes &#8220;never&#8221; and a five or six figure refund evaporates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">But the deadline isn&#8217;t even the biggest cost of waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The bigger cost is the quality of your claim. SR&amp;ED rewards contemporaneous documentation, which is a fancy way of saying records you kept while the work was happening. When you wait, you lose that. Your engineers forget the specifics of what they tried. The dead ends and failed experiments, which are often the most eligible part of the work, fade from memory. You end up with a thinner, weaker claim that&#8217;s easier for reviewers to question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">A claim built in real time is strong, defensible and bigger. A claim reconstructed from memory is fragile, smaller and stressful. Same work. Wildly different outcome. The only variable is when you started paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you should have in place before you file<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/5c8238152d78843932cc50250e9297d9-1024x684.webp\" alt=\"A person sits at a desk in a sunlit room, speaking into a smartphone. 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You do need a foundation. Get these basics sorted and your claim becomes faster to prepare, easier to defend and more likely to come back at full value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clean payroll records<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Salaries are the backbone of most SR&amp;ED claims, so your payroll data needs to be accurate and easy to pull. Knowing exactly who was paid what, and being able to tie it to eligible work, is non-negotiable. This is where good <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/payroll-software\/\">payroll software<\/a> earns its keep. When your pay records are clean and accessible, half the claim prep work is already done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A record of who did the technical work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">You need to connect people to projects. Which team members worked on eligible R&amp;D, and roughly how much of their time went to it. A connected <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/hr-software\/\">HR software<\/a> system that tracks roles, time and team structure makes this far less painful than digging through emails and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project documentation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Keep a running record of what you were trying to build, the technical problems you hit and how you tried to solve them. This doesn&#8217;t need to be a novel. Notes, tickets, commit histories and short project summaries all count. The goal is to show the systematic effort and the uncertainty you faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A sense of your eligible spend<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Before you file, you want a rough picture of your eligible costs so you know what&#8217;s at stake and can plan around the refund. A <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/sred\/sred-calculator\/\">SR&amp;ED calculator<\/a> gives you a fast, founder-friendly estimate without needing to understand every line of the tax code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A way to keep it all connected<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The startups that file the strongest claims aren&#8217;t the ones with the most paperwork. They&#8217;re the ones whose people, payroll and project data live in one place instead of scattered across five tools. An <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/\">all-in-one employment platform<\/a> means your salary data, team records and time information already agree with each other when claim season arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mistakes that delay or weaken your claim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Even eligible startups can sabotage their own claims. Here are the ones that come up again and again, and how to dodge them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Leaving documentation until the end.<\/strong> We&#8217;ve said it twice because it matters most. Record as you go. Reconstructed claims are weaker claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Only claiming the wins.<\/strong> Founders instinctively document the features that worked. But the failed experiments, the approaches you abandoned and the technical dead ends are often the strongest evidence of eligible work. Uncertainty is the whole point. Capture the messy parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Disconnected systems.<\/strong> When your payroll lives in one tool, your team data in another and your project notes in a third, pulling a claim together becomes a manual nightmare. Every disconnect is a place where time and accuracy leak out. Tying a salary to a specific piece of R&amp;D work shouldn&#8217;t require a forensic investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Guessing at time allocation.<\/strong> &#8220;He spent about half his time on R&amp;D, probably&#8221; doesn&#8217;t hold up well. The more grounded your time estimates are in real records, the more defensible your claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Misjudging who counts.<\/strong> Your developers and engineers are obvious. But people who support the technical work, including some who manage or directly enable it, may also be partly eligible. As you hire, keep eligibility in mind. Bringing on technical talent through a structured process with a tool like a <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/recruitment-agent\/\">recruitment agent<\/a> also gives you a clean record of roles and start dates, which helps when you connect people to projects later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\"><strong>Treating it as a one-off.<\/strong> SR&amp;ED works best as an annual rhythm, not a yearly panic. Build it into how you operate and each claim gets easier than the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SR&amp;ED as a growth strategy, not a tax chore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Here&#8217;s the reframe that separates the founders who thrive from the ones who scrape by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Most people file SR&amp;ED to recover some money. Smart operators use it to fund growth. When you know a refund is coming and you&#8217;ve planned for it, that money becomes part of your strategy. It can pay for your next engineer. It can extend your runway past the point where you&#8217;d otherwise need to raise. It can give you leverage in fundraising conversations because investors love to see founders who&#8217;ve tapped non-dilutive funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Non-dilutive is the magic word. SR&amp;ED money doesn&#8217;t cost you equity. You&#8217;re not giving away a slice of your company. You&#8217;re getting cash for work you were already going to do. There is almost no cheaper capital available to a Canadian startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">So stop thinking of SR&amp;ED as something your accountant handles in spring. Start thinking of it as a funding line you&#8217;re building all year. The earlier you treat it that way, the bigger the payoff and the smoother the ride. You can dig into how it all fits together with <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/en-ca\/products\/sred\/\">91爆料&#8217;s SR&amp;ED tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-faq eh-faq eh-faq__bg-light\"><div class=\"eh-faq__container\"><div class=\"eh-faq__header\"><h2 class=\"eh-faq__title\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><p class=\"eh-faq__subtitle\"><\/p><\/div><div class=\"eh-faq__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-simple-accordion eh-simple-accordion\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"accordion-1781501563775\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__checkbox\"\/><label for=\"accordion-1781501563775\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__header\"><h3 class=\"eh-simple-accordion__title\">Can a pre-revenue startup claim SR&amp;ED?<\/h3><span class=\"eh-simple-accordion__icon\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M10.3966 3.60341C10.3966 2.71788 11.1145 2 12 2C12.8855 2 13.6034 2.71788 13.6034 3.60341V10.3966H20.3966C21.2822 10.3966 22 11.1145 22 12C22 12.8856 21.2822 13.6034 20.3966 13.6034H13.6034V20.3966C13.6034 21.2822 12.8855 22 12 22C11.1145 22 10.3966 21.2822 10.3966 20.3966V13.6034H3.6034C2.71786 13.6034 2 12.8856 2 12C2 11.1145 2.71786 10.3966 3.6034 10.3966H10.3966V3.60341Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/label><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__content\"><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__inner\">\n<p>Yes. The refundable credit is designed so early-stage, pre-profit companies can receive actual cash back, even without owing tax.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-simple-accordion eh-simple-accordion\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"accordion-1781501563779\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__checkbox\"\/><label for=\"accordion-1781501563779\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__header\"><h3 class=\"eh-simple-accordion__title\">What&#8217;s the deadline to file?<\/h3><span class=\"eh-simple-accordion__icon\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M10.3966 3.60341C10.3966 2.71788 11.1145 2 12 2C12.8855 2 13.6034 2.71788 13.6034 3.60341V10.3966H20.3966C21.2822 10.3966 22 11.1145 22 12C22 12.8856 21.2822 13.6034 20.3966 13.6034H13.6034V20.3966C13.6034 21.2822 12.8855 22 12 22C11.1145 22 10.3966 21.2822 10.3966 20.3966V13.6034H3.6034C2.71786 13.6034 2 12.8856 2 12C2 11.1145 2.71786 10.3966 3.6034 10.3966H10.3966V3.60341Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/label><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__content\"><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__inner\">\n<p>You generally have 18 months after the end of the tax year in which the costs were incurred. Miss it and that year&#8217;s claim is gone for good.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-simple-accordion eh-simple-accordion\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"accordion-1781501602610\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__checkbox\"\/><label for=\"accordion-1781501602610\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__header\"><h3 class=\"eh-simple-accordion__title\">Does software development qualify?<\/h3><span class=\"eh-simple-accordion__icon\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M10.3966 3.60341C10.3966 2.71788 11.1145 2 12 2C12.8855 2 13.6034 2.71788 13.6034 3.60341V10.3966H20.3966C21.2822 10.3966 22 11.1145 22 12C22 12.8856 21.2822 13.6034 20.3966 13.6034H13.6034V20.3966C13.6034 21.2822 12.8855 22 12 22C11.1145 22 10.3966 21.2822 10.3966 20.3966V13.6034H3.6034C2.71786 13.6034 2 12.8856 2 12C2 11.1145 2.71786 10.3966 3.6034 10.3966H10.3966V3.60341Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/label><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__content\"><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__inner\">\n<p>Often, yes. If your team faced genuine technical uncertainty and worked through it systematically, that work may be eligible. Routine coding with no uncertainty usually isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-simple-accordion eh-simple-accordion\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"accordion-1781501624634\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__checkbox\"\/><label for=\"accordion-1781501624634\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__header\"><h3 class=\"eh-simple-accordion__title\">How much can we get back?<\/h3><span class=\"eh-simple-accordion__icon\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M10.3966 3.60341C10.3966 2.71788 11.1145 2 12 2C12.8855 2 13.6034 2.71788 13.6034 3.60341V10.3966H20.3966C21.2822 10.3966 22 11.1145 22 12C22 12.8856 21.2822 13.6034 20.3966 13.6034H13.6034V20.3966C13.6034 21.2822 12.8855 22 12 22C11.1145 22 10.3966 21.2822 10.3966 20.3966V13.6034H3.6034C2.71786 13.6034 2 12.8856 2 12C2 11.1145 2.71786 10.3966 3.6034 10.3966H10.3966V3.60341Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/label><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__content\"><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__inner\">\n<p>It depends on your eligible spend, but for many Canadian-controlled private corporations the refundable portion is significant. An SR&amp;ED calculator gives you a quick estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-employmentherocom2025-simple-accordion eh-simple-accordion\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"accordion-1781501664695\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__checkbox\"\/><label for=\"accordion-1781501664695\" class=\"eh-simple-accordion__header\"><h3 class=\"eh-simple-accordion__title\">Do we need a consultant?<\/h3><span class=\"eh-simple-accordion__icon\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M10.3966 3.60341C10.3966 2.71788 11.1145 2 12 2C12.8855 2 13.6034 2.71788 13.6034 3.60341V10.3966H20.3966C21.2822 10.3966 22 11.1145 22 12C22 12.8856 21.2822 13.6034 20.3966 13.6034H13.6034V20.3966C13.6034 21.2822 12.8855 22 12 22C11.1145 22 10.3966 21.2822 10.3966 20.3966V13.6034H3.6034C2.71786 13.6034 2 12.8856 2 12C2 11.1145 2.71786 10.3966 3.6034 10.3966H10.3966V3.60341Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/label><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__content\"><div class=\"eh-simple-accordion__inner\">\n<p>Not necessarily. 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The better your systems, the simpler the whole process.<\/p>\"\n            }\n        }\n    ]\n}<\/script>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bottom line: start before you think you need to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">SR&amp;ED isn&#8217;t a reward you collect at the end. It&#8217;s a habit you build from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">The best time to think about filing was the day you made your first technical hire. The second best time is today. Get your payroll clean, track who&#8217;s doing the work, document the technical problems as you solve them and treat the refund as the strategic funding it actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Founders who wait lose money to missed deadlines and weak claims. Founders who plan ahead turn SR&amp;ED into a reliable, non-dilutive funding line that fuels their next stage of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-paragraph-2-m-font-size\">Do the math on what your team&#8217;s work could be worth. Then build the systems that make claiming it easy. 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