11 stories tagged tax-policy, newest first.
19 points by JKCalhoun | 19 comments
The Conversation article by an economist on how US wealth inequality is worsening, citing Fed data on the top 0.1%, 2025 tax cuts, tariffs, and energy costs.
247 points by colinprince | 562 comments
A Conversable Economist blog post on homeowners wanting rising home values alongside falling property taxes; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
44 points by PLenz | 15 comments
NBER working paper by Marius A. K. Ring examining how higher wealth taxes on business owners in Norway from 2021 to 2025 affected business activity.
214 points by gmays | 165 comments
New York Times article on how Meta uses AI data center investments to avoid billions in federal taxes; the capture shows a captcha page.
251 points by idbnstra | 673 comments
A Progress and Poverty Substack post arguing that California should tax its $8.14 trillion in land value rather than pursue a one-time billionaire wealth tax.
395 points by tareqak | 315 comments
KBKG article on the House passing the One Big Beautiful Bill tax package, which reinstates immediate expensing of domestic R&D costs.
2326 points by dang | 845 comments
A Hacker News post by moderator dang urging US taxpayers to sign a letter to lawmakers to restore immediate deduction of software development expenses under Section 174.
462 points by explosion-s | 240 comments
Dan Luu essay examining suspicious discontinuities in data, such as income subsidy cliffs, and the perverse incentives that sharp thresholds create.
329 points by IndoCanada | 257 comments
An X (Twitter) post about thousands of small businesses struggling due to the R&D expense amortization rule (Section 174); the post content did not load.
409 points by mNovak | 186 comments
Tell HN post urging readers to submit public comments on IRS Notice 2023-63 about amortizing software development costs as R&E expenses under Section 174.
833 points by mjwhansen | 831 comments
CNBC article on US software companies facing large tax bills from the Section 174 change requiring R&D expenses to be amortized, threatening startup survival.