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:Think Progress: An Open Source Tax Credit
Think Progress: An Open Source Tax Credit
Mar 20, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (3734 reads)

(Other stories by Carl Malamud and John Irons)

"If you're a corporation and you develop software, you deduct your costs from your taxes. And, in many cases, you can take an R&D Tax Credit. But if you're an individual and you develop open source software--i.e., Firefox or WordPress--you eat those costs.

"Individuals developing open source software should have the same tax incentives as corporations, which is why we've developed a proposal for an Open Source Tax Credit..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Perhaps software written for the public  ...   a better way to tax   
Joshua Pritikin
Mar 20, 2006, 05:42:48
 
This idea should be extended to all soft ...   Should be extended to all software   
omniprovident
Mar 20, 2006, 15:07:04
 
> This idea should be extended to all so ...   Re: Should be extended to all software   
DDahl
Mar 20, 2006, 19:31:57
 
If you make money in software developmen ...   Re: Re: Should be extended to all software   
omniprovident
Mar 20, 2006, 20:26:34
 
> If you make money in software developm ...   Re: Re: Re: Should be extended to all software   
DDahl
Mar 21, 2006, 02:00:45
 
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