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Can you summarize what safe harbor provisions were removed? It wasn't clear to me from Stack's writing what, exactly, technical folks were being exempt from.
by wjy 17y ago
Can you summarize what safe harbor provisions were removed? It wasn't clear to me from Stack's writing what, exactly, technical folks were being exempt from.
- hga 17y agoAnother HN contributor did a much better job than I could: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137930 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137930 My only caveat is that as far as I remember this is something that Pat Moynihan in the middle of the night slipped into a COBRA bill (one of those last minute 1,000 page catch alls to continue funding the government) instead of something subjected to any debate in the Congress. Yep, it did happen in the same year as the tax changes, but not e.g. in the same bill or as I recall at the same time.
- hga 17y agoMy recollection seems to be wrong: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/02/the-austin-pilot-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/02/the-austin-p... (HT the Instapundit.) Then again having lost my job I didn't care that much about the details, which weren't particularly available in that pre-real Internet period.
- hga 17y agoOr maybe not, except for it being the big tax bill that year instead of a COBRA. This article: http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/fixing-independent-programmers-no-win-scenario-764 http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/fixing-independent-pr... and one of the comments matches my recollection that Moynihan slipped it into the bill in the dead of night and that it was never directly considered. Says also that Moynihan tried to get it repealed a year later, so it could be that he was also successful in spinning it as a considered part of the bill instead of a disastrous favor for a very narrow special interest.