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by mikepurvis 28 days ago
One assumes Anthropic given it's them doing the donating, but you also have to be actually making a profit to be paying tax.
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There are ways one can engage in financial engineering (is "accounting engineering" a term yet?) where despite not making a profit, you segregate a tax break, tax credit, charitable deduction, etc. into some other entity and then can sell that off as an asset that some other business that is making a profit buys and writes off against its own profits.