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My understanding (I am not an accountant or lawyer and this is not legal advice, but a layman's uncertain organic memory) is that it was just that: - old law:
by WillAdams 6mo ago
My understanding (I am not an accountant or lawyer and this is not legal advice, but a layman's uncertain organic memory) is that it was just that:
- old law: tax is deferred until item is sold
- new law: tax is owed on property in inventory each year until sold
There were hearings on Congress and Librarians holding marches protesting the bill, but it all seems to have faded away into obscurity and the new status quo.
- bombcar 6mo ago> - new law: tax is owed on property in inventory each year until sold This type of "property" tax is very rare except on physical real estate (at least in US) but it might be they did that. If so, it'd destroy the long tail entirely, so much so that I'd think print on demand companies like Amazon were behind the tax bill.
- WillAdams 6mo agoFound it --- from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlist >In the US, backlist and midlist publications were negatively affected by the US Supreme Court decision in the 1979 case Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. This decision reinterpreted rules for inventory depreciation, changing how book publishers had to account for unsold inventory each year, and their ability to depreciate it. Because stocks of unsold books could no longer be written down without proof of value, it became more efficient tax-wise for companies to simply destroy inventory.
- bombcar 6mo agoAh, that's much older than I thought.