Apply for SkatteFUNN for your R&D project
What is SkatteFUNN?
SkatteFUNN is a unique funding opportunity for the research and development activities (R&D projects) of Norwegian companies . We offer advisory services to explore your SkatteFUNN potential and help you prepare your application.
Whether you are an SME or a large company looking to improve or develop a new product, service, or production process, we can support you with your application and help you obtain funding for parts of your research and development costs.
A fixed 19% of project costs is funded for R&D projects, with annual costs of up to NOK 25 million per company.
How We can help you with your SkatteFUNN application
Do you need help writing your application, or are you unsure whether you qualify for funding from SkatteFUNN? Nordic Innovators’ advisors can assist you with a free assessment of your company/project.
Combine SkatteFUNN with other funding schemes
As an international soft funding consultancy with strong roots in Norway, we do not look at SkatteFUNN in isolation. Our holistic approach includes identifying opportunities to combine SkatteFUNN with other funding schemes for maximum benefit. Our solutions are designed to create sustainable growth and long-term results for your company.
Our detailed guidance
When you work with one of our consultants, you will be guided through the entire process. We examine your R&D activities in the current and following years to optimize the funding opportunities for eariler and fortcoming R&D costs . We are experts in handling the administrative requirements placed on the company, have a full overview of the general formalities of the application, and possess extensive know-how about the unwritten practices preferred by the Research Council in a SkatteFUNN application. Our SkatteFUNN advisory services also include reporting and guidance on project accounting.
Requirements and Costs
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The company must have a Norwegian organization number and be liable to pay tax in Norway. It does not need to be in a taxable position.
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The project must require new knowledge or skills that are not already known to a normally well-informed professional in the field in order to develop or improve the solutions.
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The new product, service, or process must differ from what is otherwise in use or offered on the market.
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It must be a research and/or development project and must be distinguishable from ordinary business operations.
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The project results must have commercial or other value for the company.
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The company must not be an “undertaking in difficulty”; see more here.
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Costs related to the R&D part of the project, not to operational tasks.
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Salaries for in-house R&D work and purchased R&D from related companies (up to NOK 700 per hour).
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Purchased services and hired labor directly linked to the implementation of the project.
Rejection
What should you do now, and what options do you actually have? What are the requirements for an appeal, and what happens if the case goes all the way to the appeals committee?
Reporting
Status or final reports for SkatteFUNN projects must be submitted annually, no later than 1 March the following year. Assistance with SkatteFUNN reporting is included in our offering.