The CRA released a report looking at their average processing time for SR&ED claims that were submitted between April 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010. The results are:
| Type of Claim | Average Days within CRA’s control | Average Days outside CRA’s control | Total Average Time (days)* |
| Refundable claims (submitted within 120 days) |
39 | 29 | 68 |
| Refundable claimant-adjusted claims (submitted within 240 days) |
100 | 43 | 143 |
| Non-Refundable claims (submitted within 365 days) |
96 | 91 | 187 |
| Non-Refundable claimant-adjusted claims (submitted within 365 days) |
145 | 126 | 271 |
| All claims | 69 | 48 | 118 |
| * The average days within CRA’s control and the average days outside CRA’s control may not add up to the Total Average time due to rounding. | |||
The processing time is the number of days that the CRA takes to process your claim from the moment your completed claim is filed to the time the review has been completed.
The column in the table that talks about delays outside of the CRA’s control includes time spent due to an incomplete claim being filed, an income tax return not being filed, the claimant taking a long amount of time to respond to review requests, etc.