Staxiom vs. Strike Tax
Strike Tax Advisory is a specialist firm that does one thing: finds and documents the R&D tax credit, then hands it back to your accountant to file. It doesn't do your bookkeeping or your tax return.
20% contingency fee on the credit delivered — no upfront cost, no retainer, nothing owed if they don't find a credit. That's below the 25–40% range industry sources cite as typical for contingency-fee R&D credit firms.
Strike's fee scales with the size of the credit they find, which aligns their incentive with maximizing your credit — but it also means the fee grows with your credit rather than staying fixed. With Staxiom, the credit review is part of the same relationship that already handles your bookkeeping and tax prep, rather than a separate engagement with its own vendor.
Strike's engagement is the R&D credit study itself — a real, useful service, but a separate relationship from whoever does your monthly bookkeeping and tax return. Staxiom's credit review happens inside the same relationship that's already keeping your books diligence-grade year-round, so there's one fewer vendor and one fewer handoff between your books and your return.
Strike Shield's unlimited audit defense and fee-back guarantee are real, concrete commitments — a fair comparison shouldn't pretend otherwise.
Sources: Strike Tax Advisory — homepage; Swanson Reed — standard contingency fee for R&D tax credit advisors. Pricing and terms are Strike Tax's own, published on their sites — confirm current terms directly with them before deciding, since pricing changes over time.
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