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by wongarsu 506 days ago
Maybe they assume tax rates will be better for them in 2026. Under that assumption, deprecating things now to shift the tax burden to the future is kind of avoiding tax (or more accurately: the 2024 tax rates).

Given the level of corruption in the US government in general and the role of Musk in the current administration in particular that doesn't seem unlikely to me

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I do think he has inside information that corporate taxes will go down.
I mean you don't have to exactly be a government insider to bet that, at a minimum, corporate taxes won't go up under the current administration.