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>>nemanj+(OP)
This is a rather depressing graph, what happened in 2022-2024?

>>anders+x41
The tax change that causes companies to have to weirdly treat developer salaries as some sort of asset such that they can only write off 20% of it per year. Outcome of this is killer for startups and causing a huge issue everywhere.

Bottom line: If a company makes $1MM in revenue and pays $1MM in salary, they owe taxes on $800k profit. Yes, this is actually the law now.

>>lubuja+9c1
Has anyone heard opinions from the incoming administration on getting this changed?

I guess the one area this tax law particularly affects are bootstrapped revenue-generating (non-VC funded) startups with high dev costs? i.e., actual running businesses not playing with monopoly money.... which maybe Elon doesn't care about....

>>awongh+gu1
The change was introduced in Trump's tax cuts, so I doubt he will reverse it.

>>_djo_+wv1
Do you have a reference where I can read more about this, specifically the timelines?

>>dgfitz+kk2
Another poster had a nice summary: >>42379288