R&D tax claims, built to hold up.
Expert-led SR&ED and innovation funding for Canadian companies. You may be doing R&D without calling it that. We find it, and we build the claim to hold up when the CRA looks closely.
Expert-led SR&ED and innovation funding for Canadian companies. You may be doing R&D without calling it that. We find it, and we build the claim to hold up when the CRA looks closely.
We build R&D claims to hold up. Documented for the questions the CRA will ask.
Sivanta Solutions Inc. is an expert-led SR&ED and innovation-funding practice for Canadian companies doing genuine technical work. Founded and led by senior technical experts, we read your projects the way a reviewer will, telling eligible development work apart from routine change, and articulating the technological uncertainty and advancement that actually justify the claim.
Our work lives at the intersection of technical depth and regulatory precision: rigorous T661 narratives, defensible labour and cost allocations, and documentation that holds up when the CRA asks questions, because it was built expecting them. We match every file to the right specialist across engineering, manufacturing, life sciences, software, and food, and keep every position evidence-based.
We support innovators from first-time claimants to established R&D groups, alongside complementary programs such as IRAP and CanExport. Whether you are filing your first claim, strengthening a weak one, or defending your work in a review, Sivanta helps you claim the full, legitimate value of your work with a submission that stands up.
The Scientific Research and Experimental Development program returns billions each year to companies advancing technology. It is the foundation of what we do.
SR&ED lets you deduct eligible R&D costs against income and earn an investment tax credit that reduces the tax you pay, often delivered as a cash refund. Any company with a permanent establishment in Canada, of any size and in any sector, may claim when it is working to resolve genuine scientific or technological uncertainty.
The program's definition of R&D is not the same as the everyday meaning of research, and that gap is where most claims are won or lost. Sivanta exists to close it: to design a process and framework that fits how your team actually works, capture the full legitimate value of your projects, and keep the whole claim evidence-based and defensible.
You do not need a laboratory or a formal research department. If your team is developing or improving a product, material, device, process or software, and the outcome was uncertain at the outset, you may be doing SR&ED.
Eligible work is systematic. You formed a hypothesis, ran experiments or trials, met failures, and iterated toward a resolution. We assess eligibility honestly and early, so you claim what is defensible and avoid exposure on work that is not.
End-to-end preparation, from technical scoping and interviews to the T661 narratives for Lines 242, 244 and 246, and the financial schedules. Every claim is structured around uncertainty first, then the work performed, then the advancement, and written to a CRA-defensible standard.
The program has shifted from an incentive to a compliance regime, and filing now takes real rigour. We help you understand the requirements, choose sound allocation methods, and frame each eligible position in its strongest form, so you capture maximum legitimate value with controlled risk.
The CRA reviews claims to confirm compliance. With experience on both the technical and financial sides of review, we prepare you before a file is selected and stand beside you throughout, drafting responses and assembling the evidence that holds the position.
Preparing a claim only after year-end is outdated and no longer fits what the CRA expects. We partner with your team through the year to build lightweight documentation into how you already work, so each claim is easier to prepare, better supported and audit-ready by default.
SR&ED is the anchor. For the same clients, these programs often stack on top, funding the same innovation from a different direction.
Credits on buildings, machinery and equipment that stack on top of SR&ED. Ontario's Made Manufacturing credit returns 10% (refundable, up to $2M a year). British Columbia's new Manufacturing and Processing credit returns 15% (refundable). In Quebec, the new CRIC pays 30% on the first $1M of qualified expenditure and, for the first time, covers capital costs alongside R&D labour.
The Development of E-Business credit rewards companies in software publishing, IT services and e-commerce with up to 30%, to a maximum of $25,000 per eligible employee each year, for high-value digital work performed from a Quebec establishment. The program is now extending to reward AI adoption under the CDAEIA stream. Claims require an eligibility certificate from Investissement Quebec before filing.
Beyond tax credits, non-dilutive grants can fund the same innovation. We advise on positioning for NRC-IRAP, Mitacs research partnerships and CanExport market expansion, and on sequencing them alongside your SR&ED claim so the programs complement rather than conflict with one another.
You may be doing R&D without realizing it. Whether you run an R&D team or have never once called your work research, five quick questions will give you a clear first read. No email required.
Plain-language briefings on the funding programs we work with, new credits, rule changes, and what they mean for Canadian innovators.
For taxation years beginning after 25 March 2025, Quebec replaced its provincial SR&ED credit, and seven other incentives, with a single refundable credit, the CRIC, paying 30% on the first $1M of qualified expenditure and 20% above it. For the first time it also covers the capital cost of property used in R&D. Here is how to position your claim while keeping the federal SR&ED credit intact.
Read the briefingB.C. has introduced a refundable 15% credit on Class 43 machinery and equipment and qualifying manufacturing or processing buildings, for Canadian-controlled private corporations with a B.C. permanent establishment, on property acquired from 1 April 2026 and capped at $2M per eligible property. This is who qualifies, and what to document before you claim.
Read the briefingOntario's 10% refundable credit returns up to $2M a year on buildings (Class 1) and machinery and equipment (Class 53) used to manufacture or process goods in the province. If you are a CCPC with an Ontario permanent establishment, your recent capital spend may be worth more than you think, and it stacks with federal incentives.
Read the briefingQuebec's Development of E-Business credit offers up to 30%, to a maximum of $25,000 per eligible employee each year, for software publishing, IT services and e-commerce work carried out from a Quebec establishment, and is now extending to reward AI adoption under the CDAEIA stream. Certification runs through Investissement Quebec before you claim.
Read the briefingMost R&D claims are drafted to pass filing. Ours are drafted expecting the reviewer's questions. The difference lies in where the technological uncertainty is placed, how the work performed is framed against a hypothesis, and whether the documentation was built to hold up. A short field guide to what makes a SR&ED claim audit-ready.
Read the briefingA claim is only worth doing if it survives the CRA and does not consume the people who should be building the product. We deliver both.
Filing a claim is easy. Building one that survives a review is not. We place the technological uncertainty correctly, frame the work against a hypothesis, reconcile the allocations, and assemble documentation expecting the CRA's questions. If your file is selected for review, the position is already ready, and we stand beside you through it.
You are running a company. You should not be spending your evenings writing technical narratives for the CRA. We handle the scoping, the interviews, the T661 write-up, the financial schedules and the audit response, so your team stays focused on the actual R&D. You review and approve. We do the heavy lifting.
We tell you early and plainly whether your work qualifies. We will not inflate a claim to win a fee or expose you to risk you did not choose. Strong claims, defended hard. Weak ones, flagged before they become a problem. That is how you claim with confidence, year after year.
Sivanta works with a focused set of Canadian companies each year. If you have an active R&D program, reach out and we will tell you honestly whether there is a claim worth building.