告诉HN：帮助恢复美国软件开发的税收扣除（第174条）
几年前，美国的软件公司遭受了重创，因为国税局停止允许软件开发费用的税前扣除。现在，这些费用必须在几年内进行摊销。
在Hacker News上，关于这个问题进行了多次讨论，包括几天前的文章《税法中的定时炸弹正在推动大规模科技裁员》（The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs） - [链接](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533)（927条评论）。其他相关讨论可以在[这里](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869)找到。
目前有一个重大努力希望能推翻这一变化。参与此事的人之一是YC的Luther Lowe（[链接](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther)）。Luther一直在组织YC校友，敦促立法者支持这一变更。我问他是否可以在Hacker News上也进行此事，他表示可以——因此才有了这个讨论线程 :)
如果你是美国纳税人，并且同意软件开发费用应该像以前一样可扣除，请签署这封信，寄给相关委员会成员：[链接](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZH8sGs6hhuVkokgpw/viewform?edit_requested=true)。
（如果你不是美国人，请不要签署这封信，因为立法者只会听取纳税人的反馈，我们不希望稀释信号。）
我相信这里并不是每个人都同意我们的看法——Hacker News是一个庞大的社区，大家在任何问题上都不会完全一致——但在这个问题上，Hacker News的社区共识相对接近，因此我认为我们也应该发声。
Luther会在这里回答问题，希望Hacker News能够为此贡献力量！
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Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the IRS stopped allowing tax deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.<p>HN has had many discussions about this, including <i>The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533</a> - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other threads are listed at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869</a>.<p>There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther">https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther</a>). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes—hence this thread :)<p>If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZH8sGs6hhuVkokgpw/viewform?edit_requested=true" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ...</a>.<p>(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)<p>I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us—HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything—but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.<p>Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!