The research tax credit is set to expire once again. Under current law, the research tax credit is only available for expenses incurred before December 31, 2009. The House Ways and Means committee has released a summary of its Tax Extenders Act of 2009, which proposes to extend several expiring tax provisions, including [...]

In TG Missouri Corp. v. Commissioner, 133 T.C. 13, the U.S. Tax Court recently found that property purchased from a third party qualifies as a supply expense for purposes of the research tax credit even though the taxpayer retains possession of the property. TG Missouri Corp is in the business of of manufacturing injection-molded products, [...]

P develops and uses production molds to manufacture automotive parts for its customers. P contracts with third-party toolmakers to build the production molds that P does not construct. After a third-party toolmaker finishes constructing a production mold, P purchases the mold and incurs additional design and engineering costs to modify the mold so that it [...]