The Wall Street Journal

No more offshore. Startups look to spend and hire in US due to Trump tax change

No more offshore. Startups look to spend and hire in US due to Trump tax change
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The Wall Street Journal
By Meg Tanaka and Theo FrancisTech startups are dusting off US hiring plans after Congress revived a popular tax deduction – and the same change could drive domestic hiring more broadly as well, executives and tax professionals say.Finta, a San Francisco-based tax-and-accounting software startup with fewer than a dozen employees, plans to fill five positions, including software engineers, in the US instead of abroad by the end of the year, founder Andy Wang said. “The change makes domestic R&D far more attractive.”'Eco...

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