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		gruez 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass ... >Wait - they are saying that employee salaries are not expenses? >That is surely wrong? Just because those salaries are for R&D? The same would be true if you hired a bunch of scientists/engineers and got them to do R&D.

triceratops 63 days ago [–]

Would it also be true if you hired a bunch of construction workers and got them to build a stadium?

gruez 62 days ago | [–]

Buildings have to be depreciated, so probably? If you have to depreciate a building if you buy it, why should you get a free pass just because you built it yourself?

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