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Part B - Feedstock

Last updated 20 December 2012

A feedstock adjustment is an amount you include in your assessable income. It applies when you obtain an R&D tax incentive offset for your feedstock expenditure incurred on R&D activities, where those activities also produce tangible products for supply to someone else, or to be applied to the R&D entity's own use (other than in transforming such products for supply).

The feedstock adjustment applies to expenditure on the following:

  • goods or materials (feedstock inputs) that are transformed or processed during R&D activities in producing one or more tangible products (feedstock outputs)
  • energy that is input directly into that transformation or processing.

A feedstock adjustment may also apply in respect of amounts claimed for the decline in value of assets used in acquiring or producing feedstock inputs.

The feedstock provisions apply to both core R&D activities and supporting R&D activities that transform or process feedstock inputs. The provisions are not confined to mass production activities.

Where a feedstock adjustment is triggered, you must include an amount in your assessable income. This may be in the current or in a future income year, depending on when the output is sold or applied.

You do not need to complete Part B unless your R&D activities have produced a marketable product supplied to someone else, or applied to your own use during the 2011-12 income year (other than in transforming such a product for supply). If your R&D activities have not produced a marketable product supplied to someone else or applied to your own use, go to Part C - Clawback - R&D recoupment tax in these instructions.

Further Information

For more information, see Research and development tax incentive - feedstock adjustment.

End of further information

Item 1 Feedstock revenue total

Write at item 1 'Feedstock revenue total' the total amount of feedstock revenue from all R&D activities, where those activities have produced products supplied to someone else, or applied to the R&D entity's own use (other than in transforming such products for supply).

Item 2 Expenditure on feedstock inputs attributable to feedstock output

Write at item 2 Expenditure on feedstock inputs attributable to feedstock output' the total amount of feedstock inputs attributable to feedstock outputs on all R&D activities, where those activities have produced products supplied to someone else, or applied to the R&D entity's own use (other than in transforming such products for supply).

Also include in the total amount written at item 2 Expenditure on feedstock inputs attributable to feedstock output' the total amount of energy input directly into the transformation or processing and the decline in value of assets used in acquiring or producing the inputs to the R&D activities.

Item 3 Feedstock adjustment - additional assessable income

The amount to be shown at label B 'Feedstock adjustment - additional assessable income' is the total of all feedstock adjustments that are required to be made for all R&D activities, where those activities have produced products supplied to someone else, or applied to the R&D entity's own use (other than in transforming such products for supply).

Step 1

Determine which R&D activities have produced marketable products.

Step 2

For each of the R&D activities identified at step 1 above, work out each of the following amounts:

A. feedstock revenue

B. the sum of amounts claimed as notional deductions for:

  • feedstock inputs attributable to feedstock outputs from each of these R&D activities
  • energy input directly into the transformation or processing
  • the decline in value of assets used in acquiring or producing the feedstock inputs to these R&D activities.

Step 3

For each of the R&D activities identified at step 1 above, determine whether the amount calculated at step 2A is less than the amount calculated at step 2B, as the feedstock adjustment amount will be calculated as one third of the lesser amount.

Step 4

For each of the R&D activities identified at step 1 above, work out your feedstock adjustment amount as follows:

  • If the amount calculated at step 2A is less than the amount calculated at step 2B, divide the amount shown at step 2A by 3.
  • If the amount calculated at step 2B is less than the amount calculated at step 2A, divide the amount shown at step 2B by 3.

Step 5

Add together each of the amounts calculated at step 4 above. Write the total at label B item 3 'Feedstock adjustment - additional assessable income'. Also include this amount in the Company tax return 2012 at item 7 label B 'Other assessable income'.

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