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.
The short answer
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.
The Reality
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
What's Included
Eligibility, application and acquittal — the whole job, handled.
Eligibility review
A clear-eyed look at where your business actually fits. We assess your activities, structure and numbers against current program rules --- and tell you plainly where you do and don't qualify.
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 program expects.
Grant identification & matching
Federal, state and local grants open, close and change eligibility constantly. We track what's live and surface the programs your business is genuinely positioned to apply for.
Application management
We manage the application itself --- drafting responses, assembling the supporting material, and keeping the submission on top of program deadlines and requirements.
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 after the money lands.
Coordination with your accountant
Anything that touches your tax position is passed to your accountant cleanly. We do the grant and incentive work; they keep handling your return --- working from the same numbers.
The Process
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 grounded in what you actually qualify for --- not wishful thinking.
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 and timing --- so you can decide what's worth pursuing.
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 your accountant wherever the tax position is affected.
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 there if they're ever asked for.
Cross-Hub Integration
Grant advice is only as good as the numbers underneath it.
Eligibility and acquittal are judged against real financial records, not estimates. Because grants and incentives advisory sits inside the connected back office, it works off the current, reconciled numbers your Finance Hub already maintains — so applications are accurate and acquittals hold up.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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.
It's an Australian Government program, run jointly by AusIndustry and the ATO, that offers a tax offset for eligible research and development activities. To claim, your activities and the records behind them need to meet the program's definitions of eligible R&D. We help you work out whether what you do is likely to qualify, register the activities, and keep the contemporaneous records the program expects --- and we coordinate the tax side with your accountant.
No. We coordinate with them. Your accountant continues to handle your tax return and lodgements. We handle the grant and incentive work --- identifying programs, managing applications, and preparing the evidence and acquittals --- and we make sure anything that touches your tax position is passed to your accountant cleanly so it's claimed correctly.
It's broad and it changes. It can include federal, state and local government grants, the R&D Tax Incentive, export and innovation programs, energy and efficiency rebates, and industry-specific or hiring-related incentives. Because programs open, close and change eligibility regularly, the right answer is always the set of programs your business actually qualifies for at the time --- not a fixed list.
Grants and incentives advisory sits within the Finance Hub. How it's structured depends on the scope of work --- whether it's a one-off application or ongoing identification and acquittal support --- and we set that out clearly and in writing before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
A clear picture of the business: what you do, your reconciled numbers, any current or recent projects, and a sense of where you're heading. Grant and incentive eligibility is judged against real activity and real financial records, so the work is most accurate when it sits on top of current, reconciled books from your Finance Hub. If your numbers aren't current yet, that's usually the first thing we sort out.
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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.