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Can’t they carry forward the losses from the past 15 years?

Food and rent aren't losses.

What? A company pays it's workers a salary and that's a loss for the business no matter if the people it's paid to are using it for food and rent.

If they didn't have any revenue coming in at all, then they should have a quite high deficit in the company that they can subtract against the income now to reduce taxes.

To be able to maintain carry forward losses, you have to have capital. The boys didn’t have capital. They paid themselves what came in. If they had been maintaining losses, they wouldn’t have a house because they would have had to sell it.

Because of the losses, right?

How do you think money works?

Not necessarily. But they probably didn't have a good lawyer and accountant. It's certainly possible to have a corporation run a loss while its employees keep their houses. I mean that's pretty much the entire point of corporations.

Why would a worker who owns a house and every year is owed more and more in unpaid back salary from a company they are working at for free, ever need to sell their house to cover the debt that the company has to themselves?

Where do you think the Dwarf Fortress guys got all this extra hypothetical money to pay themselves in excess of receipts?

You seem to be confusing between loss and expenses. Salaries are expenses of the business, while loss is the fiscal bottom line every period X.

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