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Technopark Accounting and Exemption Management
Separating in-scope from out-of-scope earnings, payroll incentives, the fund obligation and the certification file.
The technopark exemption covers the activity, not the company. What causes trouble in an audit is rarely the exemption itself but that nobody drew its boundary at the start. Where in-scope and out-of-scope earnings are not tracked separately the exemption cannot be calculated, and an exemption that cannot be calculated cannot be defended. That separation sits at the centre of this service: which revenue line falls inside, how shared costs are allocated, and how work produced outside the zone is recorded.
Who it is forSoftware, game and R&D companies operating in a technology development zone, or weighing whether to move into one.
What is included
- Separating in-scope and out-of-scope earnings, setting the shared-cost allocation key and documenting its rationale
- Applying payroll incentives: withholding exemption, employer social security support, support-staff ratio
- Setting up in-zone and out-of-zone day tracking for remote work
- Calculating the venture capital fund obligation and its effect on distributable profit
- Tracking the qualified expenditure ratio on income from intangible rights
- Keeping the certification file ready through the year and coordinating with the sworn financial advisor
What is not included
- The certification report itself: it is issued by a sworn financial advisor under a separate engagement
- The technical project file for the zone application
- Patent and trademark registration
How it runs
- Reading the existing file: revenue lines, contracts, payroll and zone filings are laid side by side
- Producing the scope map: which revenue falls inside the exemption and which does not, in writing
- Setting up the accounting to match; the separation and allocation key stay constant through the year
- Periodic review: scope, ratios and the fund obligation are re-measured at each advance tax period
- Completing the certification file at year end and running the pre-filing check
What you receive
- Scope map: an exemption assessment for each revenue line
- Cost allocation table with the written rationale for the key
- Per-employee tracking of in-zone and out-of-zone work
- Periodic exemption calculation and fund obligation summary
- A year-end file ready for certification
Timing
Setup is completed within the first month, then runs monthly and per period. Taking over a disorganised file takes longer.
Fees
The engagement runs on a monthly advisory fee. What sets it is headcount, how much activity falls outside the exemption, and the separation workload; a single-project team and a company with mixed revenue are not the same job. Professional rules do not allow work below the minimum fee tariff. The sworn CPA certification report is a separate item, contracted directly with that advisor. After the first call, once I have seen the file, I send a written proposal.
Frequently asked
- We are in a technopark. Does that mean no corporate tax?
- The exemption covers earnings from software, design and R&D activity carried out in the zone, not all of the company income. Out-of-scope services such as training, consulting and maintenance, and non-operating income such as exchange gains, interest and rent, are taxed under the ordinary regime. In most companies that is where the tax bill comes from.
- We already have an accountant. Can you work only on the technopark side?
- It can. The advisory can cover scope separation, incentive application and the certification file while your existing accountant keeps the books. The condition is that both sides use the same allocation key and the records stay consistent.
- The exemption ends at the end of 2028. Does it still make sense to move in?
- The answer depends on payroll and revenue mix. For the remaining period payroll incentives recur monthly and in a larger team can exceed the earnings exemption. In a small team the cost of being in the zone can exceed the incentive. The end date is part of the planning, not the whole decision.