D & R Consulting: helping you leverage and optimize resources.

Improved Developed a new product, process or service significant tax credits available.

Recent Internal Revenue Code changes, which apply retroactively, make it significantly easier for companies to qualify for the R&D tax credit. Under these rules, a company may qualify for the R&D credit for numerous activities that historically have been regarded as "non-technical." Regardless of the industry you are in if your company is involved in any of the following activities, it will likely qualify for the R&D tax credit:

• Manufacture products
• Develop new, improved, or more reliable products/processes/formulas
• Perform certification testing
• Develop or improve production/manufacturing processes
• Develop prototypes or models (including computer generated models)
• Develop, implement or upgrade systems and/or software
• Design tools, jigs, molds, and dies
• Develop production control software
• Develop or apply for patents
• Improve or build new manufacturing facilities
• Perform certification testing
• Automate and/or streamline internal processes
• Conduct testing of new concepts and technology
• Add New Equipment
• Development of new technology
• Attempt the use of new materials
• Perform environmental testing
• Expend resources on outside consultants/contractors to do any of the above stated activities

AnR&D Tax Credit study initiated by D&R Consulting Group could provide your company with substantial tax benefits that include:

Significant credits/cash back from previous 3 open years.

A dollar-for-dollar reduction on your current year’s taxable liability.

The opportunity to carry unutilized credits back 1 year & then carry them forward up to 20 years.

Additional tax savings in the future.

An increase your company’s assets and value.

Whenever a study is conducted by D&R Consulting Group, it involves a team of professionals.

IP Attorneys & Tax Attorneys

Audit Experts

Engineers & Scientists (from various disciplines)

Your Own Company’s CPA(s)/Trusted Financial Advisors(s)

AT D&R CONSULTING GROUP, WE PUT IT ALL IN WRITING

The R&D Tax Credit Study that you receive from D&R Consulting Group will provide your company with comprehensive documentation that encompasses all of the arguments, documentation, qualifications and quantifications required to thoroughly support every aspect of your R&D Tax Credit claims, including the why, when, where and, of course, the how much.

Commercial Property Owners – Additional 70k in cash flow for every million in building cost.

Stimulus Money for Commercial Property Owners

Recently purchased or built a building? Remodeling existing space owned or leased? Planning a commercial property purchase? Then you need to consider a commercial property engineering study.

A strategy that was approved by the IRS in 1997 to reclassify specific real property assets can be used on any structures used for business or as a rental property.  This provides net present-value savings for every $1 in cost or purchase price (minus land value).

This effectively increases taxpayer's depreciation expense in today's dollars. By recouping up to 40% of the building cost over the first 5 years as opposed to depreciating it over 39 years, translates into significant tax savings and taps into the concept of the "time value of money".

• Immediate increase in cash flow

• Recoup previously paid taxes or carry benefit forward on future returns.

• Easily claim “catch up” on previously “misclassified” assets

Tax incentives efforts to reduce energy consumption

D & R can show you how to go green. While saving your hard-earned green! Heightened energy costs. Increased government mandates. Increasing demand.Social responsibility. Now more than ever, the reasons for going green are vast and the rewards are astounding.

You may be eligible for a tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot for improving the energy efficiency of your existing commercial buildings or designing high efficiency into new buildings. If you have done or are thinking about doing .

• Building Envelope

• HVAC

• Interior lighting systems

But where do you start? With a call to D & R Consulting Group. Our independent analysis of your company's physical structure and energy usage can show you where you are wasting resources and how you can combat wasteful energy consumption and wasteful spending while becoming green and Eco-friendly.

D & R helps you become part of the green cause through identifying types of energy sources and renewable resources that are better for our environment and your bottom line, and conducting a thorough energy examination to pinpoint areas of improvement.

If that's not enough, think of the wealth of tax credits and energy incentives available for companies that go green. Better yet, let's go over it together! Call us now for a no cost assessment.

Are you looking at an increase in your group health premiums?

When it comes to employee benefits, strategy is everything. With an economic downturn, more and more employers are facing pressure to ease financial burden by conducting audits of their employee benefits. D & R Consulting Group can help you save money based on volume, strategy, and finding healthcare solutions that work for you and your employees!

On average, we save clients 10-20% on their benefits. Here's how we do it:

• An assessment of claims data
• Review plan structures and premiums and recommend cost effective alternatives that can reduce costs and increase retention of top talent
• Audit fees and hidden charges that might be driving up costs
• Identify stimulus programs and credits available to you
• Work with your current provider to renegotiate plans or provide competitive bids from the top providers in the country
• Provide a Wellness Program to improve employee health awareness, educate employees, and reduce claims to reduce costs

About Us

Rocky Laucello – Partner

As co-founder of D&R Consulting Group ,Rocky’s leadership has taken the company beyond a traditional profit margin system. It is his vision that D & R Consulting Group is a socially responsible entity, giving back to our community and the environment for our generation and generations to come. With over 10 years of experience as an Assistant VP in wealth management Rocky has provided his expertise to such large financial institutions as Bank of America and Wachovia National Bank. While at these institutions, Rocky managed over 400 million dollars in assets and was in the top 10% for financial growth. Rocky and his team at D & R Consulting Group are ready to increase your cash flow and help your company retain more profit.
Rocky is a leader recognized for his expertise in:

• Program planning and budgeting
• Organizational change and transformation
• Strategic planning

Rocky’s passion for customer satisfaction and for preparing D & R Consulting Group’s staff to excel in this area has been central to both his personal success and that of the firm.

Diane Ratcliff – Partner

As co-founder of D&R Consulting Group, Diane brings over 25 years of experience in project management, human resources management, and organizational development. Diane has knowledge and experience helping fortune 500’s, new start-up businesses, and assists struggling companies gain back the talent and performance it needs to succeed at a cost they can afford. As Senior Director of Human Resources, Diane has developed and implemented strategically aligned policies, recruited talent, trained staff, restructured departments, coached executives, developed strategic plans, and increased overall staff satisfaction of many organizations as high as 96%.

Diane leads the D & R Consulting team of HR and Employee Benefit Professionals, who can analyse company practices, renegotiate vendor agreements and reduce costs, help retain your best talent, and restructure your company for success.

Diane most recently saved a local South Florida company over 2 million over a 3 year period. Her background enables her to work effectively with payroll vendors, insurance carriers, and knows all the angles and right questions to ask. She takes great pride in representing her clients as an advocate and sees herself as a partner in her clients business.

Sam Dingus – Independent Consultant

As a Six Sigma Black Belt, a Ziglar Certified Trainer, and a licensed health insurance agent in both Kentucky and Ohio, Sam digs deep within financials and work flow to find cost cutting opportunities to improve client profitability that is much needed in today’s economic climate.

As an independent consultant with D & R Consulting Group, Sam brings over 20 years of leadership in financial sales and brings experience as Co-Founder of a financial sales company.  The combination of his work experience and Six Sigma knowledge brings valued efficiency and cost reduction results with a passion for helping business sustainability.  Sam successfully assists his clients in increasing their cash flow by reducing their costs.

Our Services includes:  Human Resources Consulting, Employee Benefits Consulting, Employee Benefits Consultants, Energy Tax Credits, Business Tax Programs, Workers Opportunity Tax Credit, R&D Tax Credits, Small Business Tax Credits.