Michele Hansen (co-founder of Geocodio) is raising the alarm about Section 174. This legislation could dramatically increase your tax bill this year if you're a small software company in the USA. Michele is organizing a response through the Small Software Business Alliance.
π ACT NOW:
- Sign up for Michele's list
 - US citizens: tweet and call your Senators today. They need to know that this is a small business issue and that small businesses in their state are hurt by Section 174.
 - Share the ssballiance.org URL with your founder friends.
 
In this episode:
- (01:37) - What is section 174?
 
- (04:42) - What's the benefit to the government for this change?
 
- (09:03) - Section 174 is bad for every company that builds software
 
- (11:28) - Disclaimer: We're not tax accountants
 
- (12:21) - What is the SSB Alliance?
 
- (14:05) - Small businesses are the cute puppies of the policy world
 
- (22:05) - A practical example
 
- (25:30) - This is going to impact small software businesses
 
- (28:36) - What can we do?
 
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