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Crédit d'Impôt Recherche (CIR) — R&D tax credit

Not a grant and not a competition — an entitlement most foreign founders in France never claim.

Amount
Up to €6,000,000
Issuer type
Tax credit
Decision time
Automatic; audit window of 3 years
Effort
Medium — accounting work, not writing

Key facts

Key facts for Crédit d'Impôt Recherche (CIR) — R&D tax credit
AmountUp to €6,000,000 — 30% of eligible R&D spend, refunded in cash for young companies
Funding typeTax credit — refundable, non-dilutive
IssuerMinistère de l'Enseignement supérieur, France
Who can applyAny company paying corporate tax in France, any size
SectorsAny · Deep tech · AI/ML
PayoutAnnual, with the corporate tax return
DeadlineNo fixed deadline

Eligibility criteria

5 criteria · 4 are hard requirements

  • Company subject to French corporate taxRequired
  • Activity qualifies as R&D under the Frascati definitionRequired
  • Time-tracked technical staff on the projectRequired
  • Technical dossier retained for 3 yearsRequired
  • Rescrit fiscal recommended before the first claimPreferred

Rewritten from the official page into yes/no checks. Nothing here is summarised away — if the source states it, it is on this list.

What you have to submit

  • Form 2069-A-SD
  • Technical justification dossier
  • Payroll time records

Odds, as reported by the issuer

~26,000 companies claim CIR each year · €7.4B distributed

Update history

Source: entreprendre.service-public.fr ↗

✓ checked 3 days ago

  1. 3 days agoagentFull re-crawl of the official page — no changes detected
  2. 11 days agoagentDeadline and amount confirmed against the issuer's page
  3. 01 Jul 2026humanHuman review — criteria rewritten into yes/no checks

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