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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.

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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.
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