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Maximize savings for federal and states R&D tax credits
Take 4 minutes to see if your business could be saving thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars every year through the R&D tax credit. Instead can apply the R&D credit to every applicable entity, and in 3 clicks you’re able to estimate savings across federal and state for payroll, contractors, supplies and more.
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Instead AI tax assistant helps you generate the meticulous documentation needed for substantiating the R&D credit in a matter of minutes, making the R&D credit accessible for any business.
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Automated tasks and reminders to meet every deadline and realize your credit
Instead, we provide an economical and efficient way to streamline the entire process of tracking each task, milestone and deadline for you with email reminders. Just login, and we’ll remind you of what’s due when, and guide you through each step.
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Instead provides all the information your tax preparer needs to file the R&D tax credit with all major business tax software in the United States.
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Once we get your basic tax info, we’ll give you every step to maximize and realize savings.


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