DeFreitas & Associates helps innovative businesses identify eligible work, assemble defensible technical documentation, calculate qualifying expenditures, and prepare complete SR&ED tax incentive claims.
Request a Free Assessment and see what may qualify as experienced technical and financial claim support, coordinated through the accounting professionals you already trust.
We review your projects, technical challenges, experiments, personnel, and costs to identify work that may meet the SR&ED requirements.
Structured interviews capture technological uncertainties, hypotheses, experiments, results, and advances for clear project descriptions.
We work with your accounting records to identify and link eligible salaries, materials, contracts, equipment costs, and applicable overhead.
We help establish practical contemporaneous records so future claims are better supported without burdening your technical team.
When questions arise, we help organize responses, clarify the technical work, prepare supporting materials, and participate in review discussions.
We independently assess a reviewed or denied claim, identify weaknesses, and advise whether further representation or an objection may be appropriate.
SR&ED is not limited to laboratories or research companies. Eligible work can occur when a Canadian business faces a technological uncertainty that cannot be resolved using readily available knowledge and undertakes systematic experimentation or analysis to find an answer.
You do not necessarily need a successful result — learning why an approach did not work may still create valuable technological knowledge.
Innovation happens in every sector
Designed to respect your team’s time
We learn about your business, projects, people, costs, and filing history.
We identify candidate projects and evaluate technical and financial eligibility.
We interview key personnel and prepare the technical and expenditure components.
You confirm factual accuracy before the claim is finalized and submitted.
We remain available to help answer CRA questions and strengthen future records.
Specialized expertise within a trusted advisory relationship
Rather than sending clients to an unfamiliar third party, DeFreitas & Associates coordinates the engagement from beginning to end. Specialized SR&ED expertise is brought into the process while your accounting and tax relationship remains at the centre.
“A strong SR&ED claim must connect the technical work, the evidence, and the expenditures into one clear and credible submission.”
Discover whether your recent innovation work may qualify. A brief confidential discussion can help determine whether a more detailed SR&ED assessment is worthwhile.
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