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Profit is determined by expenses though.

A simple example to illustrate:

Say you had 100k revenue and 1 software developer you pay 100k per year.

Under the new law, you can only deduct 20k of the developer’s salary, so your profit is 80k, which you have to pay taxes on.

However, you have $0 in the bank because you earned 100k and paid out 100k in salary.

See how that is problematic?






That's a horrible revenue to expense ratio for ditch digging, nevermind software development.

I totally agree, this change affects cash flow negatively. I don't support it at all. But it seems quite a few people are confused how it works.



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