Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cucho 555 days ago
Offshore labor is already penalized: For tax purposes under Section 174, costs for US devs must be amortized over 5 years, while costs for offshore devs are amortized over 15 years.
2 comments

This assumes that your off-shore is doing CAPEX work...
And yet, many firms continue to offshore to Central America, South America, Eastern Europe, and India for technology labor (Africa as well for ML/AI data labeling). Lots of room for policy to run here.