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., 98 DTC 1816, [1998] 3 CTC 2679 (TCC)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development Before finding that the taxpayer had been engaged in qualifying SR&ED, Archambault TCJ. noted (at p. 1821) that the Act and Regulations "do not require that... written reports be produced in order for a taxpayer to qualify for the deduction of such expenditures: it is possible to adduce evidence by way of oral testimony". ...

The Queen, 96 DTC 1232 (TCC)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development Archambault TCJ. accepted the evidence of the taxpayer's expert witness that the development by the taxpayer of a program improved an existing computer process (enabling the taxpayer to produce more efficient high-quality software products) and was the result of systematic investigation (notwithstanding very little documentary evidence of such investigation). ...

The Queen, 2000 DTC 2372 (TCC), aff'd 2002 DTC 6740, 2001 FCA 393-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development Bonner T.C.J. accepted (at p. 2382) the evidence of the Crown's expert that the cost incurred by a lottery ticket marketer in developing an information system employing object-oriented architecture did not represent SR&ED because "the project used commercially available products and services, and current information systems development methodologies and practices throughout". ...

Revenue and Customs v NCL Investments Ltd & Anor, [2022] UKSC 9-- summary under Contract Modification or Grant Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 18- Subsection 18(1)- Paragraph 18(1)(b)- Capital Expenditure v. Expense- Contract Modification or Grant employee stock option expenses were as a general matter sustained on income account The taxpayers, which were required by s. 46 of Corporation Tax Act 2009 to calculate the “profits of [their] trade … in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice, subject to any adjustment required or authorised by law,” were found by the Court to be thereby authorized to deduct the expenses (“Debits”) recognized under IFRS when they granted stock options to employees through an employee benefit trust established by their parent. In finding that this deduction was not precluded by s. 53 of the same Act, which provided that “[i]n calculating the profits of a trade, no deduction is allowed for items of a capital nature,” Lord Hamblen and Lady Rose accepted (at para. 55) the findings of the First-tier Tribunal that the taxpayers’ “employees operate in a professional services business whose success depends on the availability of skilled and motivated professionals and the grant of share options to those employees is part of their remuneration package” and that the “Debits were … recurring costs that had a connection with the Appellants’ earning of income ….” ...

Richter & Associates Inc v. The Queen, 2005 TCC 92-- summary under Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 123- Subsection 123(1)- Business litigation support services provided by trustee for bankrupt financial institution were an "undertaking" The trustee in bankruptcy for a company ("Castor") which had essentially only engaged in investing in high-yield loans brought an action in its capacity of trustee for the Castor estate against the former auditors ("C&L") for $40 million in damages for breach of contract, and also began a "litigation support business" of providing assistance to most of the creditors (the "Participating Creditors"), including hiring professionals and experts, in connection with their action sounding in negligence against C&L for $800 million in damages. ... After noting (at para. 21) that "the word ‘undertaking' has been defined in … Drumheller v. ... Ct.), as embracing ‘... trades, manufactures, professions, or callings, and any other conceivable kinds of enterprise as well," Archambault J stated (at para. 32): [T]he litigation support services to the Participating Creditors constitute, if not a profession as defined in the Maxse case [[1919] 1 K.B. 647], at least an undertaking as this term is used in the definition of a "business". ...

Richter & Associates Inc v. The Queen, 2005 TCC 92-- summary under Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Business litigation support services provided by trustee for bankrupt financial institution were an "undertaking" The trustee in bankruptcy for a company ("Castor") which had essentially only engaged in investing in high-yield loans brought an action in its capacity of trustee for the Castor estate against the former auditors ("C&L") for $40 million in damages for breach of contract, and also began a "litigation support business" of providing assistance to most of the creditors (the "Participating Creditors"), including hiring professionals and experts, in connection with their action sounding in negligence against C&L for $800 million in damages. ... After noting (at para. 21) that "the word ‘undertaking' has been defined in … Drumheller v. ... Ct.), as embracing ‘... trades, manufactures, professions, or callings, and any other conceivable kinds of enterprise as well," Archambault J stated (at para. 32): [T]he litigation support services to the Participating Creditors constitute, if not a profession as defined in the Maxse case [[1919] 1 K.B. 647], at least an undertaking as this term is used in the definition of a "business". ...

The Queen, 2007 DTC 41, 2006 TCC 597 (Informal Procedure)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development novelty or innovation is not sufficient to illustrate technological advancement Little J found that a project of developing an interactive software tool to assist high school students with physics and mathematics did not qualify as SR&ED because there was no technological or scientific uncertainty involved. He stated (at para. 24): Novelty or innovation in a product is not sufficient to illustrate technological advancement; rather, it is how these features arise that is important, that is whether or not they arise through the process of SR & ED. ...

MNR, 93 DTC 165, [1993] 1 CTC 2141 (TCC)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development In finding that "thinking, contemplating and meditating" by a researcher did not constitute scientific research and experimental development, Rip J. stated (p. 172): "... ...

The Queen, 2003 DTC 1410, 2003 TCC 674 (Informal Procedure)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development Various efforts made by the taxpayer to improve the accuracy of a freight weighing device did not qualify given that there was "some merit" in the Crown expert's contention that the manner in which the taxpayer proceeded was akin to the use of routine or standard engineering practices, it was difficult to understand what hypothesis, if any, was made and what steps were being proposed to eliminate the technological uncertainty if one existed, and virtually no records were kept of any hypotheses tested and of results as the work progressed. ...

., 98 DTC 1839, [1998] 3 CTC 2520 (TCC)-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development 5 factors test The taxpayer was an engineering consultant firm that specialized in the development, management and protection of water resources. ...