Re:Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for boot...
by Firmwarrior on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:03PM
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Thanks dude. This is a good reminder that I need to talk to an accountant before I start messing around with tax-incurring stuff
In theory you could treat your one man startup as a C corp, but that would make very little tax sense, regardless of these changes. Also if it's your own 200k, don't pay tax on it because you've put it in the bank and then taking it back, even in a C corp: you pay tax on revenue from others.
The problem seems to arise for purely bootstrapped companies with contractors that have no startup capital. This is quite rare i think, because you'd probably start incurring expenses for a couple of years before you earn any revenue, expenses that you can then amortize once the revenue appears. If you are a small company but not a startup, then your software expenses are probably not R&E, they are ordinary section 162 expenses.
It's a law in the opposite direction nevertheless impeding innovation (i wonder the intent!), because it adds complexity for the tiny poorly funded businesses