Comment by kaitai
3 years ago
What I find most confounding is that I know some folks who do what I'd call research, in that they do EDA and develop models, but since those aren't necessarily destined for development of software, their hours are not counted in this exercise. It's too, um, researchy to qualify as research, I guess? or it's just classified as fancy analytics.
> and develop models
The debate over whether Excel counts as programming and thus software development just got a lot more heated. The question is how is "software" defined in the context of the tax code, in particular in the phrase "development of any software" from above.
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/software gives a couple definitions.