Comment by dcow
3 years ago
Honestly people like you posting these articles claiming that “weird legislative inaction is fucking over startups and small business” and further pushing the “all work that involves scripting a computer 110% must be classified as software R&E” narrative in comments, in spite of so many people telling you that such a conclusion is batshit stupid, makes me question whether there’s some ulterior motive in play. Like what, are all the accounting firms realizing their CPAs don’t outperform TurboTax if they can’t use their secret software R&E magic loophole and have thus deployed the shills, who show founders ridiculous mega tax bills..obviously perturbing them into posting their re-shills? Anecdotally, I know exactly zero founders who are getting “fucked over” by this because they aren’t stupid enough to structure their taxes in a way that causes their employees’ salaries to magically become capitalized voodoo money. Like, man, cut the histrionics… and find a better tax person.
Whether you can shop around to find someone who can tell you what you want to hear is unrelated to the mixed fact and law question of whether it is a defensible position that software development salaries must be capitalized.