Tax incentives, accounting, and advisory for growth-oriented businesses
ATS helps software companies, manufacturers, engineering firms, and other innovative businesses capture tax incentives, improve cash flow, and make better financial decisions.
Start with your industry
Every industry qualifies differently. Each page covers what typically qualifies, the documentation examiners expect, and what comparable companies have recovered.
Four services that move real money
R&D Tax Credits
Identify, document, and defend federal and state credits for the work your team already does.
Learn more →Cost Segregation
Engineering-based studies that accelerate depreciation and free up cash in the years you need it.
Learn more →Accounting & CFO Services
Financial reporting, forecasting, controller support, and strategic guidance as you scale.
Learn more →Business Valuation
Defensible valuations for transactions, succession planning, and reporting requirements.
Learn more →Not just another tax credit firm
Many firms offer R&D tax credits and cost segregation as side services. ATS built its reputation helping businesses and CPA firms identify, document, and maximize tax-saving opportunities.
About ATS →Senior-level expertise
You work directly with experienced professionals who understand your business and the details that drive results.
Long-term relationships
The people you work with today will be here tomorrow. We build partnerships, not transactions.
Documentation-first approach
Our process is built for sustainability, audit readiness, and maximum defensibility.
CPA-friendly process
We complement your existing CPA relationships and make collaboration straightforward.
Case studies
Qualifying payroll and contractor costs for software development activities over three years.
R&D tax credits identified for process improvements and new product development.
A cost segregation study accelerated depreciation and improved cash flow.
Resource center
Guides, calculators, and answers to help you understand tax incentives before you commit to anything.
CPA partners
We help accounting firms deliver specialized tax incentive expertise without disrupting existing client relationships.
Answers, in plain terms
Full question sets live on each solution and industry page, marked up so search engines and AI assistants can quote them directly.
View all FAQs →Often, yes. Development work that resolves technical uncertainty — new features, architecture changes, performance and integration work — can qualify. What matters is whether the activity meets the four-part test and whether the work is documented well enough to defend.
Generally you can look back three open tax years, and unused credits may carry forward. We review prior years as part of the initial assessment so nothing recoverable is left behind.
A properly prepared, engineering-based study follows IRS guidance and is a recognized method of allocating property costs. Risk comes from thin documentation, which is why every ATS study is built to stand on its own.
Yes. A look-back study can capture missed depreciation on properties placed in service in earlier years, claimed in the current year without amending prior returns.
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