Abstract:This paper investigates the relationship between tax credits for R&D expenditure and firms’ R&D expenditure based on enterprises above designated size in Dalian. This paper compares and analyzes the different effects of fiscal technology investment funds, high-tech enterprise tax reduction and tax credits for R&D expenditure policies on corporate R&D internal and external expenditures. The results show that among the three policy instruments, the tax credits for R&D expenditure policy has the strongest impact on the internal and total R&D expenditure, and the combined impact of the other two policy instruments is weakened. The impact of tax credits for R&D expenditure on firm internal expenditures is not significant. Tax credits for R&D expenditure has the weakest crowding out effect on R&D expenditures of enterprises. When the total R&D expenditure of enterprises is high, the tax credits for R&D expenditure policy is applied.