R&D Tax Credits for Contractors and Design-Build Firms
When your team has to engineer a way to build something that hasn't been built that way before, that problem-solving can qualify.
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Often qualifies
Work that often qualifies
- Design-build work where your team designs systems, not just installs them
- Developing prefabrication or modular methods
- Engineering solutions for difficult sites, sequencing or structural constraints
- Testing new materials, assemblies or installation methods
Usually doesn't
What usually doesn't
- Building to someone else's complete design
- Routine field work and supervision
- Work billed on cost-plus or time-and-materials terms where the owner carries the risk
Costs
Costs that count
Wages for project engineers, estimators, designers and supervisors on qualifying work; materials consumed in mockups and tests; 65% of US subcontractor costs for qualifying design work where you carry the risk.
Questions
Common questions
Yes, if your team engineers how something gets built, not just installs what someone else designed. Design-build and prefabrication work often qualifies.
Yes. If the owner carries the risk on cost-plus or time-and-materials terms, that work usually doesn't qualify for you. If you carry the risk, it can.
Find out in 15 minutes whether it's worth doing
Bring a rough idea of headcount and what your team worked on. We'll tell you whether there's a credit worth claiming and what the study involves.