SR&ED season is here. How to claim the hours you actually worked

For many startups, the biggest challenge with claiming Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit isn’t innovation. “With increasingly powerful generative AI models, the [Canada Revenue Agency] now audits your process more than anything.” The evidence behind months of development can be spread across different systems that weren’t designed to work together. Teams may track tasks in project-management systems like Jira, store code in GitLab,