Bruce joined one of the big four international accounting firms in 1976 and articled with them until 1978, when he received his Canadian chartered accountants designation. He remained with the firm as a taxation specialist until 1982, when he left to form a boutique accounting firm specializing in providing services to knowledge based industries.
In 1994 Bruce formed Braithwaite Technology Consultants Inc. (Braithwaite), a firm staffed by scientists, engineers and accountants that assist taxpayers in preparing R&D tax credit claims. Under his tenure Braithwaite has grown to the largest national independent R&D tax credit advisory company in Canada, serving about 500 clients on an annual basis and filing more than 10,000 R&D claims at a success rate of greater than 99%. Recently, Braithwaite opened an office in the UK.
In 2003 Bruce established R&D tax credit advisory firms in the United States (Braithwaite Global Inc.) and in the United Kingdom (Braithwaite Tax Recovery Consultants Limited).
Bruce is a frequent lecturer on R&D tax credit matters. He has authored a number of professional conference , papers, newspaper, magazine articles, and a book related to this subject. Bruce has served on a number of professional committees at the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and served two terms as President of the North York CA Association.
Book
Research and Development Tax Credits
by Bruce Braithwaite and Greg Howe
Publisher: Tottel Publishing (October 2007)
ISBN-10: 1845923480
Amazon: Canada, United Kingdom, and United States of America
Conference Papers
- R&D – Credits Today, Innovation: Setting Up Research Facilities and Contracts, Canadian Tax Foundation, 1999 Corporate Management Tax Conference.
- Government System for High Tech – The SR&ED Tax Credit Program, Strategy Institute, 2000 Conference on the Art and Science of Financing High Techs.
- Software Development Work as SR&ED, Canadian Tax Foundation, 2000 Ontario Tax Conference, Oct 2000.