2013-10-30 Introduced in House Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow through 2018 a new business-related tax credit for an increase in expenditures for qualified development expenses (defined as the sum of any in-house and contract development expenses incurred in the trade or business of a taxpayer), (2) increase to 20% the rate of the alternative simplified research tax credit, and (3) extend through 2018 the tax credit for increasing research activities.

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