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Tech companies routinely report nearly their entire engineering division as R&D for tax purposes.

From what I recall, the tax credit is used for products that aren't yet available to the market.

So let's say a company needs 5 years to build some new hardware. Those 5 years of labor and expenses are all R&D.

I think that's why this is such a big deal. I could be wrong though.

in general they can balloon the r&d and can have a huge tax write off !!