[Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (jc at trillian.mit.edu)]

Tom Metro wrote:
| Will Rico wrote:
| > Anyone have thoughts to share on the new Massachusetts tax on software
| > services for "prewritten" software consulting or what it covers?
| > http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2013/07/28/open-letter-on-new-massachusetts-tax-on-software-services/
|
| Good write-up. (The Slashdot discussion doesn't really add anything useful.)
...
| The law change, as currently presented, does seem to be quite vague, and
| raises numerous questions as to what is covered. Does any software using
| "prewritten" components qualify for this tax? ...

Maybe we should start by asking whether "prewritten" includes packages
like libc.  That could cover a lot of software ...


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