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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by koolba on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:39PM (#44228518)
Any decent sized company already does this. You’ll see a field on things like Jira tickets for whether something is maintenance or capital improvement. And presumably that information can be used to infer the percentage of a given workers time that can be attributed to deductible vs depreciable expenses.
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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by elliotec on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:43PM (#44229249)
Exactly. Everywhere I’ve worked, this was a quick and non-intensive collaboration between engineering management and like one finance person. It’s baked into a ton of tools already (like you mentioned, Jira) so the percentages are usually just there and eng leaders review it with FP&A twice a year.
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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by jchanimal on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:57AM (#44232697)
Real innovators can’t stand this sort of noise and so it is a direct shot against their bow
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