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A proposal for an open source tax credit

A proposal for an open source tax credit

Posted Mar 21, 2006 0:07 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: A proposal for an open source tax credit by gtaylor6
Parent article: A proposal for an open source tax credit

The Mouse? They have guarded their own tax loopholes, it doesn't seem this would have to effect them. I was in on the colorization thing in the 80's. The purpose wasn't to make the film look better, it was that if we did new work on old pictures the schedule for depreciating them became more advantageous.

Bruce


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A proposal for an open source tax credit

Posted Mar 21, 2006 1:38 UTC (Tue) by gtaylor6 (guest, #19812) [Link]

> The Mouse? [...] it doesn't seem this would have to effect them

Not the proposed 20% software basis ex-time deduction, certainly.

But any wider change to copyright might affect publisher behavior
directly, or even indirectly through some purturbation it triggers
in the accounting treatment of copyright assets. Changes to the
tax code are like changes to most complex software systems: at
best you can only move the bugs around :)

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