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Open-Source Tax Credit Would Better Compensate Tech Developers

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It's probably a safe assumption that maintainers have a high enough tax burden (less safe if one asks: in which jurisdiction?) for the proposed credit to be useful, but it is an assumption nonetheless

A refundable credit would provide the credit regardless of burden (i.e. it will create a refund for every dollar it credits you beyond your burden).

The problem for the mantainer would be dealing with the spam of silly PR just to collect money.

I think that all PR are important and useful, even fixing a sincgle char in a typo of the docs, but if the incentive is high enought people would send unuseful PR,like fixinf

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