Research and Experimentation Tax Credit: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, August 2 and 3, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 972 pages |
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Page 133 - Basic and applied research in the sciences and engineering and the design and development of prototypes and processes. This definition excludes quality control, routine product testing, market research, sales promotion, sales service, research in the social sciences or psychology, and other nontechnological activities or technical services.
Page 225 - research or experimental expenditures", as used in section 174, means expenditures incurred in connection with the taxpayer's trade or business which represent research and development costs in the experimental or laboratory sense. The term includes generally all such costs incident to the development of an experimental or pilot model, a plant process, a product, a formula, an invention, or similar property, and the improvement of already existing property of the type mentioned.
Page 16 - Division, US General Accounting Office Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, we are pleased to be here today to discuss the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) ability to meet its new and growing responsibilities.
Page 262 - Research and development" means expenditures incurred by natural gas companies which represent research and development costs in the experimental or laboratory sense. Unless otherwise prescribed by the Commission, the definition of the term "research and experimental expenditures...
Page 36 - In the case of expenditures paid or incurred during the taxable year for the purpose of ascertaining the existence, location, extent, or quality of any deposit of ore or other mineral...
Page 232 - A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to come before you today to talk about the research and development tax credit.
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Page 444 - CATV industry and a major designer and manufacturer of numerous digital communications products as well as microwave semiconductors, components and subsystems and other products for commercial and defense applications.
Page 266 - ... improvement of already existing property of the type mentioned. The term does not include expenditures such as those for the ordinary testing or inspection of materials or products for quality control or those for efficiency surveys, management studies, consumer surveys, advertising, or promotions. However, the term includes the costs of obtaining a patent, such as attorney's fees expended in making and perfecting a patent application.
Page 596 - In about 30 percent of the cases in this sample, the private rate of return was so low that no firm, with the advantage of hindsight, would have invested in the innovation, but the social rate of return from the Innovation was so high that, from society's point of view, the investment was well worthwhile.