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This is yet another instance of people simply not understanding what R&D spending means in the context of tech. Most employee salaries are R&D. Cloud compute is
by paxys 3y ago
This is yet another instance of people simply not understanding what R&D spending means in the context of tech. Most employee salaries are R&D. Cloud compute is R&D. Any expense related to developing any of their existing products or services gets categorized under that bucket, and they get tax breaks on it.
R&D does not only mean new research.
- sho_hn 3y agoThis is correct and should top the thread.
- edgyquant 3y ago> Most employee salaries are R&D. > and they get tax breaks on it. This isn’t true anymore. The tax break for engineers counting as R&D ended last year and this is cited as one reason for so many layoffs
- syspec 3y agoI read that it was more about splitting it over 5 years and that for big companies this would actually help them (since they have the runway)