[sethherr]

While I understand the drawbacks, the current situation - where the ultra-wealthy don’t pay taxes because all their wealth is in unrealized gain - is even worse

[freeone3000]

This valuation of software for business taxes. If a business never sells its software, the software may very well have no value.

[sahila]

What about an internal tool that helps improves processes but doesn't ever sell or google.com and gmail which are free to users?

[thaumasiotes]

> the current situation - where the ultra-wealthy don’t pay taxes because all their wealth is in unrealized gain

This is neither the current situation nor even a theoretical possibility.

[sethherr]

Sorry, "don't pay taxes" was hyperbole - what I meant was have a lower tax rate than the rest of us.

Isn't that the whole point of all sorts of tax strategies, for instance Buy, Borrow, Die?

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