The money you're eligible for, found, claimed and kept compliant.
Identifying, applying for and acquitting the government grants, R&D Tax Incentive and other incentives your business may qualify for, without the guesswork or the paperwork landing on you.
Grants and incentives advisory is the work of helping an Australian SME identify, apply for and acquit the government grants, R&D Tax Incentive and other rebates it’s eligible for, finding the programs that fit, managing the application and its evidence, and keeping the claim compliant afterwards. At Valont it sits inside your finance hub, one part of a wider connected back office, and it works off your real, reconciled numbers rather than estimates. It’s modular, take it on its own or alongside the rest of the hub, and it never assumes a program is right for you until the eligibility holds up.
There is money you're eligible for that you'll never claim, because you don't know it exists.
Governments at every level run grants, the R&D Tax Incentive, and a constantly shifting set of rebates and incentives. Most are genuinely open to ordinary Australian businesses. But they open and close on their own timetables, the eligibility wording is dense, and nobody sends you a reminder that you might qualify. So programs you could have claimed simply pass you by.
For the ones you do hear about, the paperwork is daunting enough that plenty of eligible owners start an application and quietly abandon it. The forms ask for evidence you have to dig for, the definitions are easy to get wrong, and a claim that isn't backed properly can come back to bite you at acquittal time. Between not knowing and not having the hours, the result is the same, eligible money left on the table.
Why eligible money goes unclaimed:
- You don't know the program exists, or that you'd qualify
- Programs open and close on their own timetables, with no reminder
- Eligibility wording is dense and easy to misread
- The application asks for evidence that's scattered or hard to find
- R&D and grant definitions are easy to get wrong
- A claim that isn't backed properly creates risk at acquittal
Eligibility, application and acquittal, the whole job, handled.
Eligibility review
A clear-eyed look at where your business actually fits.
R&D Tax Incentive support
Help working out whether your activities meet the program's definition of eligible R&D, registering them, and keeping the contemporaneous records the…
Grant identification & matching
Federal, state and local grants open, close and change eligibility constantly.
Application management
We manage the application itself, drafting responses, assembling the supporting material, and keeping the submission on top of program deadlines and…
Evidence & acquittal
Winning a grant is the start, not the end. We help gather and organise the evidence, then handle the acquittal and reporting so the claim stays compliant…
Coordination with your accountant
Anything that touches your tax position is passed to your accountant cleanly.
From “are we even eligible?” to a compliant, acquitted claim.
Review eligibility
We start with where you genuinely fit. Your activities, structure and reconciled numbers are assessed against current program rules so the work is grounde…
Match programs
We surface the grants, the R&D Tax Incentive and other rebates your business is positioned to apply for right now, and explain the trade-offs, effort, fit…
Manage the application
We draft the responses, assemble the supporting evidence, and keep the submission on top of each program's deadlines and requirements, coordinating with…
Acquit & comply
After an application succeeds, we help with the evidence, reporting and acquittal each program requires, so the claim stays compliant and the records are…
Grant advice is only as good as the numbers underneath it.
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Grants by state
Federal and state grant programs differ by state.
Frequently asked questions
The short answers are here. For anything else, ask below or get in touch.
No. Nobody honestly can. Grant programs are competitive and discretionary, the R&D Tax Incentive depends on whether your activities and records meet the legislated definitions, and eligibility rules change. What we do is assess where you genuinely fit, prepare a complete and accurate claim, and make sure the evidence stands up. We won't push you towards a program you don't qualify for just to lodge something.
Find out what you're actually eligible for.
Book a finance review and we'll look at where your business genuinely fits for grants, the R&D Tax Incentive and other incentives, then handle the application and acquittal if it stacks up.