Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ...
by aqme28 on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:37PM
(#44227687)
(Not a tax professional)
The federal corporate tax rate is 21% and for states it ranges from 0 to about 9%.
So generally you're going to pay at least 21% or $170k for those "profits."
Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ...
by rbultje on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:05PM
(#44231053)
LLCs pay 37%, not 21%. Plus state plus local. This can reach 50% in high-tax areas like CA or NY.
Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ...
by koolba on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:40PM
(#44228546)
> if I earn $100/year, and I can deduct $50 of that, my tax bill is not $50. It is some percentage of $50, usually a low number for businesses. (Amazon regularly pays $0/year in taxes.)
It’s not that low. Federal corporate tax rate is 21%. So you would be on the hook for $10 in taxes.
Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ...
by shaftway on Monday June 09, 2025 @05:19PM
(#44229619)
> Amazon regularly pays $0/year in taxes.
They *were* able to, because they *were* able to offset the cost of developers instead of having to amortize it out over 5 years.
Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ...
by naniwaduni on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:33AM
(#44235498)
For Amazon, this just costs two years on the taxes. They'll still be able to claim depreciation of this year's dev work for the next four, though.
> But you only have $100k of actual dollars.
> Good luck paying your taxes!
a lot of people here are conflating "taxable income" and "the amount owed in taxes" for some reason.
if I earn $100/year, and I can deduct $50 of that, my tax bill is not $50. It is some percentage of $50, usually a low number for businesses. (Amazon regularly pays $0/year in taxes.)
depending on the tax rates and the locality of that business, the amount owed on tax is going to be anywhere from $0 to $50, and it is going to heavily favor the low end of that spectrum. I don't think any business pays 100% of its taxable income in taxes unless they have been heavily fined.
$100k is likely far more than enough to pay the tax on $820k of taxable income for a business. It could be enough to pay that tax bill 10 times over, it's hard to say.
my point is that taxable income != tax owed.