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tareqak ◴[] No.44469188[source]
> Foreign R&D must still be amortized over 15 years
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macinjosh ◴[] No.44469232[source]
Awesome, this literally could not be better for American tech workers.
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1. earth2mars ◴[] No.44469547[source]
Yes, but why the domestic r&d must be amortized only within 5 years? One way it is harder for finance to deduct all the expense within 1 year or they have to amortize only within 5 years. In case of foreign r&d expenses though they cannot detect in the year they incur but they have 15 years amortize. So I don't get the benefit of. In fact if they haven't touched this it could have been much better. In tcja they made it worse. And they fix it partially by making it deductible within the year they incur for domestic r&d. But the amortization still kills it.