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This doesn't seem to be investment focussed activity, but rather extending Claude credits for education and research. Which is a good thing, independent of othe
by enugu 5mo ago
This doesn't seem to be investment focussed activity, but rather extending Claude credits for education and research. Which is a good thing, independent of other bad things that might be happening.
- colechristensen 5mo agoAnd a sizable tax deduction.
- yreg 5mo agoWho profits from that deduction and how?
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- mikepurvis 5mo agoOne assumes Anthropic given it's them doing the donating, but you also have to be actually making a profit to be paying tax.
- trollbridge 5mo agoThere are ways one can engage in financial engineering (is "accounting engineering" a term yet?) where despite not making a profit, you segregate a tax break, tax credit, charitable deduction, etc. into some other entity and then can sell that off as an asset that some other business that is making a profit buys and writes off against its own profits.
- nozzlegear 5mo agoAnthropic profits from the PR, for one. And they likely hook these institutions on their products in the long term, for two – much like I was "stuck" on Azure until recently, thanks to their free startup credits pointing me to it a decade ago.
- chadash 5mo agoIANAA, but pretty sure you can only deduct a donation against business profit. Are you suggesting that Anthropic is running at a profit?
- goodthink 5mo agoNet Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.
- datadrivenangel 5mo agoyou can often carry over the losses for multiple years sometimes.