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Hansen: Section 174 Is an Existential Threat to Software Businesses

Michelle Hansen · Episode 656 | Taste vs. Shipping + Being First vs. Being the Best... · Apr 11, 2023 · at 2:13

Michelle Hansen warns software entrepreneurs on Startups For the Rest of Us about the severe financial fallout from the Section 174 tax law changes.

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“The more I talk to experts about this issue, the more it becomes clear to me that section one 74, as it stands right now, is an existential threat to any business that builds and sells software.”

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