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by goeric 3272 days ago
While the R&D tax credit is not new, one of the tweaks was not a slight change.

Before, you could only offset your corporate income taxes, so you couldn't claim the credit if you weren't profitable (because you wouldn't have corporate income taxes). Now, you can offset social security taxes, which are based on payroll. So more startups can now benefit from this credit.