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I only briefly glanced at your project, but it doesn’t look like a commercial offering or a component of one… what is your motivation for paying people to do this work? I would think bounties would be used more often by companies who need some open source feature for interoperability or integration purposes…

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Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

Can you deduct these expenditures fully in income tax?

You could deduct them if you have a corporation with some reasonable claim to the IP behind the projects, or a clear business reason for needing the features. There’s probably no clear settled tax law on the specific topic, but I’m sure it would pass an audit as long as there isn’t some egregiously obvious non-business related work being bountied.

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