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Re:Ask HN: Why did Congress recently add a Software "Special... by I_Am_Nous on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:48AM (#39780119)
Seems like the main thing is rectifying what "research and development" entails and how it's taxed. Software development was grouped together with other kinds of development, which I believe would be traditional prototyping, modeling, and building test units (in a physical industry).
Re:Ask HN: Why did Congress recently add a Software "Special... by rhornberger on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:22PM (#39781590)
What I want to see is that they remove the "special case" rule for software from the line. Let us decide what is R&D and not R&D. Right now the new rule says "all" software is R&D and that is where our biggest problem lies.