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Comment by alex7734

3 years ago

Seems like a perfect way to prevent software companies from quickly growing their engineer count.

The question is, was this done on purpose?

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brentm  3 years ago

It was done as part of the Tax & Jobs Cuts Act of 2017. It was probably partly done to help offset some of the taxes that were being cut.

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